GPU Fan Problem

[Meliodafu]

Hey. So first off my GPU is MSI GTX 1060 6GB. Usually the fan doesn't even spin until the temp gets quite high. However it has never had the problem I'm about to tell you about until yesterday. So yesterday I decided to play Assassin's Creed Origins and around 10-15 minutes into the game I started hearing this strange noise. I begun to worry so I opened the case to check it up and it turned out that one of my GPU's fans is making the noise as if it's hitting something. Thing is it doesn't seem like it's hitting anything at all and that's the strange thing. The noise isn't continuous either. It happens once around every 15-20 seconds for about 5 seconds. I've played other games which have high requirements too like Nier;Automata, The Witcher 3 and CS:GO but I've never had this problem before. I can just not play the game but that's really not a solution now is it. It'd be really helpful if you can help me solve this cuz it's actually very annoying.

[Terabyte_272]

You may want to check your fan curve first. You may just have the fans off at low/ medium temps.

[Meliodafu]

10 minutes ago, Terabyte_272 said:

You may want to check your fan curve first. You may just have the fans off at low/ medium temps.

Where can I check that out?

[Cigano]

you can check the fan curves in your motherboards bios. Usually tap the delete key while the pc is starting up to get in.  

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Cigano said:

you can check the fan curves in your motherboards bios. Usually tap the delete key while the pc is starting up to get in.  

That usually doesn't let you do anything with the GPU fans, just the CPU and case ones. You'd want to download MSI Afterburner (pretty much the most awesome thing for GPU monitoring and overclocking) and install it. It'll include Riva Statistics Tuner as well, you can install that and then set up an OSD with basically anything you want, including all the GPU temps your GPU sensors offer, CPU temps and usage, GPU fan RPM, Framerates, Frametimes, everything. And in Afterburner you can set up a custom fan profile to have your fans start up at a lower temp and not ramp up as quickly, then keep an easy eye on your temps in the OSD and tweak the fan profile from there. 

[Meliodafu]

7 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

That usually doesn't let you do anything with the GPU fans, just the CPU and case ones. You'd want to download MSI Afterburner (pretty much the most awesome thing for GPU monitoring and overclocking) and install it. It'll include Riva Statistics Tuner as well, you can install that and then set up an OSD with basically anything you want, including all the GPU temps your GPU sensors offer, CPU temps and usage, GPU fan RPM, Framerates, Frametimes, everything. And in Afterburner you can set up a custom fan profile to have your fans start up at a lower temp and not ramp up as quickly, then keep an easy eye on your temps in the OSD and tweak the fan profile from there. 

This sounds pretty cool but now that I've downloaded it I'm lookin at it like an idiot and have no clue what to do. Any tips?

[Zando_]

Just now, Meliodafu said:

This sounds pretty cool but now that I've downloaded it I'm lookin at it like an idiot and have no clue what to do. Any tips?

Hit the settings button and you should be able to enable voltage control and stuff (just leave it on standard MSI). There'll be a bunch of tabs, just look through them one by one. One tab will have a list of stuff it can track, you tap the checkbox next to it and then click on it and you can choose "show in OSD" and it'll show up in any games that support an overlay (basically everything but Destiny 2 in my experience). One tab over is the option to set a hotkey to show/hide the OSD, and then a couple more tabs over should be the fan profile one. Click enable custom profile and you can set the fan speeds to ramp up based on temps, set as aggressive or passive curve as you want, then keep an eye on temps in gaming and you can tweak it pretty easily. 

[Meliodafu]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Hit the settings button and you should be able to enable voltage control and stuff (just leave it on standard MSI). There'll be a bunch of tabs, just look through them one by one. One tab will have a list of stuff it can track, you tap the checkbox next to it and then click on it and you can choose "show in OSD" and it'll show up in any games that support an overlay (basically everything but Destiny 2 in my experience). One tab over is the option to set a hotkey to show/hide the OSD, and then a couple more tabs over should be the fan profile one. Click enable custom profile and you can set the fan speeds to ramp up based on temps, set as aggressive or passive curve as you want, then keep an eye on temps in gaming and you can tweak it pretty easily. 

Alright I'll try it out, thanks mate!

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Meliodafu said:

Alright I'll try it out, thanks mate!

Do it! And if you look on YouTube JayzTwoCents has some really good videos on overclocking with MSI Afterburner, and I'm sure he or someone else has videos on setting up fan profiles and other stuff like that. 

[Meliodafu]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Do it! And if you look on YouTube JayzTwoCents has some really good videos on overclocking with MSI Afterburner, and I'm sure he or someone else has videos on setting up fan profiles and other stuff like that. 

Alright I'll check him out. Thanks a lot!

[Cigano]

On 10/23/2018 at 3:17 PM, Zando Bob said:

Hit the settings button and you should be able to enable voltage control and stuff (just leave it on standard MSI). There'll be a bunch of tabs, just look through them one by one. One tab will have a list of stuff it can track, you tap the checkbox next to it and then click on it and you can choose "show in OSD" and it'll show up in any games that support an overlay (basically everything but Destiny 2 in my experience). One tab over is the option to set a hotkey to show/hide the OSD, and then a couple more tabs over should be the fan profile one. Click enable custom profile and you can set the fan speeds to ramp up based on temps, set as aggressive or passive curve as you want, then keep an eye on temps in gaming and you can tweak it pretty easily. 

I for some reason misread the discussion as having to do with the CPU not GPU so sorry about that bad advice.