So I bought a Zotac GTX970 about a month or so ago. I'm upgrading from a GTX660 so I expected quite a bit of performance increase, and I was pleased at first, but noticed that while playing very intensive games like GTA V, I have to go at only about medium-high settings at 1920x1080 for a steady 60fps. But even after around 4 hours of heavy load, my drivers crash and the game becomes unresponsive. When I looked at HWmonitor and various other programs, it was clear that my fan had only been putting out 60% speed.
So my question is, how can I get my fans going at 100%, and could the fans not going full speed be the cause of drivers crashing due to overheating? The highest temps I've seen were around 70c
Computer Specs:
i7 3770 @ 3.4 ghz
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Zotac 4GB GTX970
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16GB DDr3 RAM
Asrock H61 Motherboard
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Antec 650watt psu
[QUOTE=QuadAtten;47546940]So I bought a Zotac GTX970 about a month or so ago. I'm upgrading from a GTX660 so I expected quite a bit of performance increase, and I was pleased at first, but noticed that while playing very intensive games like GTA V, I have to go at only about medium-high settings at 1920x1080 for a steady 60fps. But even after around 4 hours of heavy load, my drivers crash and the game becomes unresponsive. When I looked at HWmonitor and various other programs, it was clear that my fan had only been putting out 60% speed.
So my question is, how can I get my fans going at 100%, and could the fans not going full speed be the cause of drivers crashing due to overheating? The highest temps I've seen were around 70c[/QUOTE]
70C is not high enough to be causing those problems. It sounds like either your drivers are screwed up or there is a problem with your hardware. Can you post your full specs?
[QUOTE=Wiggles;47546971]70C is not high enough to be causing those problems. It sounds like either your drivers are screwed up or there is a problem with your hardware. Can you post your full specs?[/QUOTE]
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GTX 970's have passive cooling up to 60C, then the fans start up slowly and keep the temperature around 70-75C under full load, the card is designed to run that hot.
As for the crashing I have no idea, have you tried doing a clean reinstall of the drivers?
[QUOTE=Thunderbolt;47546992]GTX 970's have passive cooling up to 60C, then the fans start up slowly and keep the temperature around 70-75C under full load, the card is designed to run that hot.
As for the crashing I have no idea, have you tried doing a clean reinstall of the drivers?[/QUOTE]
I actually just recently updated to the GTA V ready drivers a couple days ago. And so far it's the only game I noticed the crashing in, so do you think that's the problem? Perhaps I should just go back to the old drivers?
[QUOTE=QuadAtten;47547008]I actually just recently updated to the GTA V ready drivers a couple days ago. And so far it's the only game I noticed the crashing in, so do you think that's the problem? Perhaps I should just go back to the old drivers?[/QUOTE]
Are they bèta drivers?
[QUOTE=taipan;47547047]Are they bèta drivers?[/QUOTE]
Not that I can tell.
try driversweeper
i uninstall from my control panel, then run driversweeper, and then restart, install drivers and restart again.
never, ever have had driver problems.
im on 350.12 and gtaV runs at around 75 80fps @ 2560x1440
70°C is perfectly fine, if you feel uncomfortable then you can adjust the fan curve using MSI Afterburner or EVGA Precision - although IMO wouldn't make it higher, would just be too noisy.
man, I remember my 9800gt card
it'd run 90c in stalker, would crash at 110c, but was otherwise "Stable" at 80-90 until I maxed stuff out :v:
I just bought a 970 as well and it's much hotter than the 770 but it's 70c at worse, that's extremely normal.
70c is pretty fine
I had a 570 HD that occasionally had bouts of crashing for the 3 years that I used it without really getting better or worse, and it would do it at 70-75, sometimes lower.
If it happens with a few different games on different past drivers, I would consider RMAing it if you still can, unless someone can come up with another possible hardware conflict. Drivers are one thing, but you don't want a card that forces you to go fiddling with fan speeds and shit under perfectly normal conditions.
My drivers are also crashing exclusively during GTA also on a 970. I have a Gigabyte card, so it's definitely a software issue that I'm sure will be fixed soon. GTA is also an incredibly intensive game, so we can't max out absolutely everything and get 60fps since we aren't running SLI 980s.
Not only is 70°C perfectly fine, fans won't spin up much higher than 60-70% unless the heat really requires it as running fans at full speed makes them wear out faster.
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