Hi everyone,
While running Borderlands 2, my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 will run at temps as high as 87 °C. This is after I cleaned all dust from my computer and having the GPU fan spinning at 100% using the NVIDIA performance tool. Sometimes I will be greeted by one color screens and pc crashes due to this issue. Allowing the GPU to cool down allows my PC to boot again. On idle temps it will run at 53 °C, which is way too high. Airflow in my PC is good, no issues with CPU overheating or anything.
Does anyone here have any tips on making my GPU run any cooler, without replacing it, it's fan, or underclocking it?
Cheers
Get a new card.
By new, I mean purchase one of the 5 to 600 series cards or if you are loaded, buy the new 700 series cards. They're absolutely amazing!
[QUOTE=Stalkercore;41637226]Get a new card.
By new, I mean purchase one of the 5 to 600 series cards or if you are loaded, buy the new 700 series cards. They're absolutely amazing![/QUOTE]
Yeah I think that would be the best option. I just don't want to touch my system right now. But I might do it later when I get back from my holiday. It's just that I can still run most games at 1920x1080 at high settings using this card so I didn't have much reason to upgrading, just the overheating issue right now.
I had a GTX 260 for quite a while with similar results, it seems to get hotter with age. There is nothing you can really do for it.
[QUOTE=SonicXV;41643625]I had a GTX 260 for quite a while with similar results, it seems to get hotter with age. There is nothing you can really do for it.[/QUOTE]
It probably got hotter with age due to not properly cleaning out the internal heatsink fins and having some cheap garbage thermal paste on the GPU to begin with.
OP, remove the GPU from your system, remove the heatsink from the GPU and clean/re-apply thermal paste to the GPU.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;41643944]It probably got hotter with age due to not properly cleaning out the internal heatsink fins and having some cheap garbage thermal paste on the GPU to begin with.[/QUOTE]
Not the case, I had cleaned it at regular intervals and replaced the paste three times during its life, the last time borrowing some high dollar paste since the cleaning stopped yielding any results. Replacing the paste should help if it is his first time doing it, though.
I used to have a GTX260.
Mine seemed to always get dust stuck deep in the heatsink, and every so often i had to take the card apart to deepclean the thing.
It always ran warm due to the poor cooling design, but it never ran that hot unless it was clogged up
Those are normal temperatures for a 200 series.
My GTX275 ran as hot as 95 degrees OOB. 2 friends of mine had a GTX280 and a GTX295, same temps.
[quote]
Thermal and Power Specs
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C)
105 C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W)
182 W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W)
500 W
Supplementary Power Connectors
6-pin x2[/quote]
[url]http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-260/specifications[/url]
My 275 used to accumulate dust in the heatsink at a scary rate, it's probably worth checking it out.
I wouldn't say the temperature is too bad. Biggest problem is probaly the age
Well, I opened up the side panel of my case (Antec P182). This dropped the temperature at borderlands 2 max settings from 97 °C to 61 °C under load. Apparantly the design is flawed, which shows in the newer models where they do include a fan on the side of the case.
My case with a lack of fan on the side:
[IMG]http://www.geek.com/xyzimages/stories/reviewimages/antec_p182/ap182_06.jpg[/IMG]
Guess I will have to drill a hole in my case now :v:
[editline]31st July 2013[/editline]
Ok put the panel back on. Temps are now at 62 °C under load still. I am a wizard apparently. Keeping the front panel open helps maybe. Case close I guess :v:!
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