Overheating GPU's - What is the best solution?

mAfia_boy · Jan 9, 2010

oops! sorry misread that question.

rambo14k · Jan 9, 2010

Play around with your Bios like i did lol

1C 1%Fan 100C 100%Fan

douglatins · Jan 11, 2010

Cleaning the Heatsink with compressed air, addin fan

trunksi · Apr 25, 2014

Consider BitCoin miners as a cause for overheating. Anti-virus software doesn't spot them. With such miners GPU starts overheating after 10-15 mins after the user has stopped moving the mouse. You will not spot the process in task manager as it shuts down when you open it. Also the GPU temperature starts falling immediately after you move the mouse.

I bought a new PC case, bought water cooling for the processor, bough a new GPU card. The normal temperature was around 31 degrees celsius but when my computer was idle it reached 70 degrees and kept operating at 70 degrees until I moved the mouse.

70 degrees is OK normally the GPU's are safe to operate to around 100 (it may vary) but constant 70 will damage the GPU overtime.

So download some temperature monitoring software and watch the GPU temp If you see the temperature rising when idle, then 90% it's a BitCoin miner.

Vario · Apr 25, 2014

Usually the cheap small GPUs that come with traditional boxed PC's have fans clogged with dust and not much airflow, blowing the dust out of the heatsinks, the grills on the intake and exhaust, and adding a front or side panel fan if it lacks one, usually helps a lot.

rambo14k said:
Play around with your Bios like i did lol 1C 1%Fan 100C 100%Fan

1C is pretty good, are you a butcher and use the computer in a meatlocker?

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