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Thenothing
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Recently when ever I start up my computer my gigabyte gtx 970 G1 gaming would go extremely loud and after the computer fully loads it would go quiet, I used compressed air to clean out all the dust that was in my pc and reinstalled windows 10 and took the gpu out and back in but its still happening, I also noticed that during gaming it would also stutter from time to time, I kept an eye on my GPU temp through openhardware monitor and it's sitting around 39degree when gaming while my cpu temp are around 60 degree, I also have never overclocked my gpu / cpu. Help plz!!

PC specs:

Windows 10

Asus z97-k 

intel i7-4790

gigabyte gtx970 g1 gaming

antec edge 550w 

 

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4 minutes ago, Thenothing said:

Recently when ever I start up my computer my gigabyte gtx 970 G1 gaming would go extremely loud and after the computer fully loads it would go quiet, I used compressed air to clean out all the dust that was in my pc and reinstalled windows 10 and took the gpu out and back in but its still happening, I also noticed that during gaming it would also stutter from time to time, I kept an eye on my GPU temp through openhardware monitor and it's sitting around 39degree when gaming while my cpu temp are around 60 degree, I also have never overclocked my gpu / cpu. Help plz!!

PC specs:

Windows 10

Asus z97-k 

intel i7-4790

gigabyte gtx970 g1 gaming

antec edge 550w 

 

it's fine if it makes noise at booting up but idk why it's at 39C.. try doing a heaven benchmark, see if the temp is higher than 39C like it should be

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9 minutes ago, Thenothing said:

Recently when ever I start up my computer my gigabyte gtx 970 G1 gaming would go extremely loud and after the computer fully loads it would go quiet, I used compressed air to clean out all the dust that was in my pc and reinstalled windows 10 and took the gpu out and back in but its still happening, I also noticed that during gaming it would also stutter from time to time, I kept an eye on my GPU temp through openhardware monitor and it's sitting around 39degree when gaming while my cpu temp are around 60 degree, I also have never overclocked my gpu / cpu. Help plz!!

PC specs:

Windows 10

Asus z97-k 

intel i7-4790

gigabyte gtx970 g1 gaming

antec edge 550w 

 

did you ever do.. mining?

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1 minute ago, Thenothing said:

Yeah

ohhhh. that can do it though, try doing unigine heaven benchmark and keep an eye on the temps. get the benchmark here: https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven 

 

you don't have to let the bench finish, just see the temps after like 2 mins, see if it stutters and check if the fps is on par with other 970s. let us know the results. do you have the right drivers installed?

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1 minute ago, HK1 said:

ohhhh. that can do it though, try doing unigine heaven benchmark and keep an eye on the temps. get the benchmark here: https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven 

 

you don't have to let the bench finish, just see the temps after like 2 mins, see if it stutters and check if the fps is on par with other 970s. let us know the results. do you have the right drivers installed?

Yeah I have the latest nvidia driver 397.64

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That's all perfectly normal. Don't worry.

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I downloaded Heaven benchmark and since I have no experience using this software I just selected the extreme preset and let it ran and here is the log: 

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2:35:59 ---- System ----
22:35:59 System: Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
22:35:59 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3597MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 AVX HTT x4
22:35:59 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 24.21.13.9764 x1
22:35:59 System memory: 2047 MB
22:35:59 Video memory: 4095 MB
22:35:59 Sync threads: 3
22:35:59 Async threads: 4
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- MathLib ----
22:35:59 Set SSE2 simd processor
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Sound ----
22:35:59 Renderer: OpenAL Soft
22:35:59 OpenAL vendor: OpenAL Community
22:35:59 OpenAL renderer: OpenAL Soft
22:35:59 OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.14
22:35:59 Found AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE
22:35:59 Found AL_EXT_OFFSET
22:35:59 Found ALC_EXT_EFX
22:35:59 Found EFX Filter
22:35:59 Found EFX Reverb
22:35:59 Found EAX Reverb
22:35:59 Found QUAD16 format
22:35:59 Found 51CHN16 format
22:35:59 Found 61CHN16 format
22:35:59 Found 71CHN16 format
22:35:59 Maximum sources: 256
22:35:59 Maximum effect slots: 4
22:35:59 Maximum auxiliary sends: 2
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Render ----
22:35:59 D3D11Render::D3D11Render(): Unknown NVidia GPU
22:35:59 Direct3D11 desc: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
22:35:59 Found feature level 11.0
22:35:59 Found compute shader 11.0
22:35:59 Maximum texture size: 16384
22:35:59 Maximum texture units: 16
22:35:59 Maximum texture renders: 8
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Physics ----
22:35:59 Physics: Multi-threaded
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- PathFind ----
22:35:59 PathFind: Multi-threaded
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Interpreter ----
22:35:59 Version: 2.52
22:35:59
22:35:59 Loading "heaven/unigine.cpp" 37ms
22:35:59 Unigine~# render_restart
22:35:59 Loading "heaven/locale/unigine.en" dictionary
22:35:59 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_post.mat" 23 materials 50 shaders 4ms
22:35:59 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_render.mat" 47 materials 2368 shaders 7ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh.mat" 5 materials 3386 shaders 9ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_lut.mat" 2 materials 1062 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_paint.mat" 2 materials 1158 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation.mat" 5 materials 3332 shaders 8ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation_paint.mat" 2 materials 2276 shaders 5ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_triplanar.mat" 1 material 112 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_overlap.mat" 1 material 300 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_terrain.mat" 1 material 813 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_layer.mat" 1 material 84 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_noise.mat" 1 material 106 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_stem.mat" 2 materials 2180 shaders 10ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_wire.mat" 1 material 45 shaders 0ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_terrain.mat" 1 material 1980 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_grass.mat" 2 materials 474 shaders 3ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_particles.mat" 1 material 109 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboard.mat" 1 material 51 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboards.mat" 2 materials 840 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_volume.mat" 6 materials 53 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_gui.mat" 1 material 82 shaders 0ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_water.mat" 1 material 533 shaders 20ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_sky.mat" 1 material 21 shaders 16ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_decal.mat" 1 material 99 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/properties/unigine.prop" 2 properties 0ms
22:36:00 Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (4.0)
22:36:00 Unigine~# world_load heaven/heaven
22:36:00 Loading "heaven/heaven.cpp" 84ms
22:36:00 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_base.mat" 7 materials 8ms
22:36:01 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_environment.mat" 13 materials 679ms
22:36:02 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_ruins.mat" 27 materials 1737ms
22:36:04 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_buildings.mat" 58 materials 1787ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_props.mat" 10 materials 346ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_sfx.mat" 11 materials 5ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_fort.mat" 15 materials 464ms
22:36:08 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_airship.mat" 26 materials 2669ms
22:36:09 Loading "heaven/heaven.world" 8688ms
22:36:35 Benchmark running
22:40:57 Benchmark results:
22:40:57 Time:    260.603
22:40:57 Frames:    14274
22:40:57 FPS:    54.773
22:40:57 Min FPS:    8.30589
22:40:57 Max FPS:    117.98
22:40:57 Score:    1379.73
22:43:47 Unigine~# quit
22:43:52 Close "openal32.dll"
22:43:52 Close "dxgi.dll"
22:43:53 Memory usage: none
22:43:53 Allocations: none
22:43:53 Shutdown

The Gpu was sitting around 60 degree when running this benchmark

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2 minutes ago, Thenothing said:

I downloaded Heaven benchmark and since I have no experience using this software I just selected the extreme preset and let it ran and here is the log: 

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2:35:59 ---- System ----
22:35:59 System: Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
22:35:59 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3597MHz MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 SSE42 AVX HTT x4
22:35:59 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 24.21.13.9764 x1
22:35:59 System memory: 2047 MB
22:35:59 Video memory: 4095 MB
22:35:59 Sync threads: 3
22:35:59 Async threads: 4
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- MathLib ----
22:35:59 Set SSE2 simd processor
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Sound ----
22:35:59 Renderer: OpenAL Soft
22:35:59 OpenAL vendor: OpenAL Community
22:35:59 OpenAL renderer: OpenAL Soft
22:35:59 OpenAL version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.14
22:35:59 Found AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE
22:35:59 Found AL_EXT_OFFSET
22:35:59 Found ALC_EXT_EFX
22:35:59 Found EFX Filter
22:35:59 Found EFX Reverb
22:35:59 Found EAX Reverb
22:35:59 Found QUAD16 format
22:35:59 Found 51CHN16 format
22:35:59 Found 61CHN16 format
22:35:59 Found 71CHN16 format
22:35:59 Maximum sources: 256
22:35:59 Maximum effect slots: 4
22:35:59 Maximum auxiliary sends: 2
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Render ----
22:35:59 D3D11Render::D3D11Render(): Unknown NVidia GPU
22:35:59 Direct3D11 desc: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
22:35:59 Found feature level 11.0
22:35:59 Found compute shader 11.0
22:35:59 Maximum texture size: 16384
22:35:59 Maximum texture units: 16
22:35:59 Maximum texture renders: 8
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Physics ----
22:35:59 Physics: Multi-threaded
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- PathFind ----
22:35:59 PathFind: Multi-threaded
22:35:59
22:35:59 ---- Interpreter ----
22:35:59 Version: 2.52
22:35:59
22:35:59 Loading "heaven/unigine.cpp" 37ms
22:35:59 Unigine~# render_restart
22:35:59 Loading "heaven/locale/unigine.en" dictionary
22:35:59 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_post.mat" 23 materials 50 shaders 4ms
22:35:59 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_render.mat" 47 materials 2368 shaders 7ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh.mat" 5 materials 3386 shaders 9ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_lut.mat" 2 materials 1062 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_paint.mat" 2 materials 1158 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation.mat" 5 materials 3332 shaders 8ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_tessellation_paint.mat" 2 materials 2276 shaders 5ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_triplanar.mat" 1 material 112 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_overlap.mat" 1 material 300 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_terrain.mat" 1 material 813 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_layer.mat" 1 material 84 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_noise.mat" 1 material 106 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_stem.mat" 2 materials 2180 shaders 10ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_mesh_wire.mat" 1 material 45 shaders 0ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_terrain.mat" 1 material 1980 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_grass.mat" 2 materials 474 shaders 3ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_particles.mat" 1 material 109 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboard.mat" 1 material 51 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_billboards.mat" 2 materials 840 shaders 2ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_volume.mat" 6 materials 53 shaders 4ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_gui.mat" 1 material 82 shaders 0ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_water.mat" 1 material 533 shaders 20ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_sky.mat" 1 material 21 shaders 16ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/materials/default/unigine_decal.mat" 1 material 99 shaders 1ms
22:36:00 Loading "core/properties/unigine.prop" 2 properties 0ms
22:36:00 Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (4.0)
22:36:00 Unigine~# world_load heaven/heaven
22:36:00 Loading "heaven/heaven.cpp" 84ms
22:36:00 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_base.mat" 7 materials 8ms
22:36:01 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_environment.mat" 13 materials 679ms
22:36:02 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_ruins.mat" 27 materials 1737ms
22:36:04 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_buildings.mat" 58 materials 1787ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_props.mat" 10 materials 346ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_sfx.mat" 11 materials 5ms
22:36:05 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_fort.mat" 15 materials 464ms
22:36:08 Loading "heaven/materials/heaven_airship.mat" 26 materials 2669ms
22:36:09 Loading "heaven/heaven.world" 8688ms
22:36:35 Benchmark running
22:40:57 Benchmark results:
22:40:57 Time:    260.603
22:40:57 Frames:    14274
22:40:57 FPS:    54.773
22:40:57 Min FPS:    8.30589
22:40:57 Max FPS:    117.98
22:40:57 Score:    1379.73
22:43:47 Unigine~# quit
22:43:52 Close "openal32.dll"
22:43:52 Close "dxgi.dll"
22:43:53 Memory usage: none
22:43:53 Allocations: none
22:43:53 Shutdown

the Gpu gone up to 60 degree when running this benchmark

great! that's normal.. what about the fps and stutters? what kind of fps were you seeing?

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1 minute ago, Thenothing said:

 It would go up to 100+ fps on some scenes then drop down to 50fps or lower on other scenes and I could notice some fps spikes and stutters

your GPU is completely fine :) false alarm, since you switched tabs the temprature dropped because when an app goes in the background, the fps on it drop because the load drops, your graphics card only works hard when you have the window open, so since to tabbed out the temps went down because your gpu didn't do much to output heat.

 

the noise on boot is completely normal because(i think) it gets a pulse of power and the PWM doesn't kick in until you boot. from my experience this is completely normal

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