GTX 980 Ti temp issues

[oc-co]

This will be a long thread, and while I will try to not post useless info I'd appreciate it if anyone willing to help would be able to read everything to understand my situation to know what I'm dealing with.

 

A few weeks ago, I've got my MSI GTX 980Ti Gaming (https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GTX-980-Ti-GAMING-6G.html) card and immediately once I got it, I fired up the games that I played to see how it performs @ 1440p. The card is excellent, it provides very high FPS (60+) in many games, boost itself to 1350 MHz when any game is opened, is quiet etc... But ofcourse there is a problem, and that problem are temperatures.

 

When the fan is at automatic mode (no custom fan curve), the temps of the cards were at 54-57C, when a game is opened and played for awhile the temps get very fast to the temp limit (83C). I posted this in another forum and was recommended to improve my cooling and reapply TIM. I do both things by buying additional 3 fans (all intake 2x front, 1x bottom) and disassembling my GPU and reapplying the TIM (X method was used here). After all of that was done, I can say that the temps while they did drop didn't drop by much at both idle and load (3-5C).

 

After this I still didn't like the 80C temps and have gone and set my own custom profile (https://imgur.com/C49Z4fO). Now the temps are at 37-40C at idle and 70-77C at load, and also the worst part about this is that the fans are spinning 95-100% at those temps and it's still in high 70's ?!?! Why ? . 

 

This is the temp issue which I'm talking about, why would it require almost 100% of fan speed just to keep the temps at high 70's ? I have to mention that I tried to OC my card, and managed to go up to +115 on the core speed in Afterburner, but the temps then rise to 80-84C with fans still spinning at 100%.

 

Also me taking the side panel off doesn't change temps at all.

 

I hope anyone might know how to help me solve this issue, as this is the only thing that is stopping me from gaming normally since I'm too much worried about this.

 

Any questions on any info which I've missed, please ask.

Also my ASIC is 77.5% , I'm on stock cooling (Twin Frozr) and stock BIOS.

 

My specs:

 

CPU: i5 2500K @ 4.5 GHz

GPU: MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming Edition

Motherboard: AsRock Z77 Extreme4

RAM: Patriot 8GB (2x4GB) 1600 MHz

CASE: Fractal Design Define R5
SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 1 TB HD103SJ

PSU: SuperFlower Leadex Gold 650W

 

Thanks.

[_thecrafter_18]

not sure if its an issue or just the type of cooler they gave the 980ti but my 980ti sli (asus strixs) get on average 86C with a 1490MHz OC and 70% fan speed. this is in a 750D with 3 intake fans and 3 outtakes (all ML140's). ASIC is also in the high 70's. Even at stock clocks they get to about 84C. I have changed the thermal compound to thermal grizzly kyronaut and it did bring temps into the mid 70's for a while, but you've said you've changed it and still didn't help much at all. other than the thermal compound i would say if you've got the budget, water cool them. loads of vids on here and jayztwocents about it if you're hesitant. might not have been much help but you're not alone in this one.

[RadiatingLight]

980Tis are pretty hot.

you could watercool it, but other than that, it seems pretty standard.

I'd personally increase the temp limit to like 87 or something, since in reality, it won't really kill the card.

[oc-co]

1 minute ago, RadiatingLight said:

980Tis are pretty hot.

you could watercool it, but other than that, it seems pretty standard.

I'd personally increase the temp limit to like 87 or something, since in reality, it won't really kill the card.

But the throttling starts at 84C right ?

[oc-co]

Anyone ?

[_thecrafter_18]

On 06/09/2017 at 8:48 PM, oc-co said:

But the throttling starts at 84C right ?

never had mine throttle and they've got to 92C, they just stay at 1490MHz regardless of what temp target or power limit you set.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Thats the kind of temps you'd get on a dual fan cooler mine does 1447mhz at 100% fan speed 75*C daily.