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Game is making video card HOT

xcom43xcom43 Member Posts: 723 Arc User
edited July 2013 in Graphical and Sound Issues
Even on low settings my video cards temp is sitting around 124f or in terms 51c That is getting up there the highest temp a video card can handle is 160 degree Fahrenheit = 71.1c.:confused: there should not be any reason way game is making system heat up this much.My desktop is not that dirty i clean it out once a week or two.
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  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Open up the card itself, once my old card was so completely clogged with dust it was a wonder the fan turned at all.
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  • xcom43xcom43 Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    smokeybacon90 wrote: »
    Open up the card itself, once my old card was so completely clogged with dust it was a wonder the fan turned at all.

    um did i not say that i clean out my system once a week or every two weeks there is all most zero dust on my video card and the plastic casing is off.
    The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
  • lordfuzunlordfuzun Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Cryptic's game engine will drive a video card as much is it can take. If you want to keep the temp down, the best way to do that is to turn on FPs limit. Game Options -> Video -> Troubleshooting (at the bottom) -> Limit Frame Rate (further down, 2nd from the bottom).
  • xcom43xcom43 Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Sad thing is that the Frame limiter is on.:D
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  • xcom43xcom43 Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    There is some thing wrong with them.The games graphics are starting to make my video card to heat up.I have to completely underclock video card too keep it under 140F.

    160F is the max temp a video card can get be for it melts or shuts down.This kind high temp can be very bad.71.1c = 160F.

    There are programs that can monitor system temps.
    I for one use Speccy,Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks,Temps.Speccy is from the CCleaner makers.

    Speccy)-->>http://filehippo.com/search?q=Speccy

    There is all so CPU-Z is a freeware utility that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z does not need to be installed, just unzip to the desktop.

    CPU-Z)-->>http://filehippo.com/search?q=CPUID+HWMonitor

    Be for LOR the video temps where fine nothing hit above 120F but now it is too the point on where i have to Super underclock video card.
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  • cyberfoxx01cyberfoxx01 Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    70C isn't that hot. Most modern GPUs have a maximum operating temperature of around 100C. (Specs for my GTX 550 Ti)
  • xcom43xcom43 Member Posts: 723 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Yes but you have the lower end model mine is the super clocked bye factory settings.

    Core Clock
    981 Mhz (vs. 952 Mhz Reference)

    Shader Clock
    1962 Mhz (v.s. 1903 Mhz Reference)

    CUDA Cores
    192

    Memory

    Effective Memory Clock
    4514 Mhz (v.s 4536 Mhz Reference)
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  • cyberfoxx01cyberfoxx01 Member Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Even then, 60-70C when running a game isn't unheard of. In fact, STO runs at ~60C on my card, and so do most of the other games I own. (Oblivion and Fallout 3 push it up to ~70C easily. folding@home will push it to ~75C.)

    Unless you hear the GPU fan howling like a banshee trying to keep the card cooled and it's hitting around 90C, then everything is working as it should be.
  • supergroverohpcsupergroverohpc Member Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    xcom43 wrote: »
    Yes but you have the lower end model mine is the super clocked bye factory settings.

    Core Clock
    981 Mhz (vs. 952 Mhz Reference)

    Shader Clock
    1962 Mhz (v.s. 1903 Mhz Reference)

    CUDA Cores
    192

    Memory

    Effective Memory Clock
    4514 Mhz (v.s 4536 Mhz Reference)
    70c is not even close to the thermal limit, doesnt matter if it is a factory clocked version, it is still the same die as a reference card.
    Depending on ambient temps and airflow I can see STO hitting 70c, hell my 2nd card in Xfire pushes 80c on a warm day and thats in a xfired setup.
    For a list of the thermal limits of your or other nV cards heres a quick easy list.

    http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/NVIDIA-GeForce-Chips-Comparison-Table/132/2
  • tanthiltanthil Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    what people are saying is right. 70c is very acceptable. 100c is typicaly the limit your card shuts down for uh self preservation reasons (it doesnt burn out, it shuts down) if your running constantly over 85c i would then worry about it possible affecting your cards life span. i run sli on 2 of the coolest running cards out there and my top card runs around 65c normaly. thats just how it is. but yes this game does push more heat out of cards then should be required for its graphics, as i can run bf3 maxxe out with 100+ fps and not come close to the temps sto put out on gpu. When i was running amd 6970s in xfire they would run around 85c normaly and they did not burn out after 2 years.. i sold them. i just had to get rid of them because in the summer they would win the fight against my airconditioner... lol
  • neithuneithu Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    OP is panicing for no reason. I run my card at 85-90C for last two years and it works just fine. When it hits 95 clocking frequency drops, to reduce heat, but that rarely happens.

    I'll repeat what people said. You can't burn your card, first it will reduce clock, then it will shutdown before any damage can be done.

    (ye, its notebook card, bit harder to cool it down)
  • voicesdarkvoicesdark Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    What are the CPU and System fan temps in relation to the GPU temps? What case do you have?
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  • ightenighten Member Posts: 181 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Have to agree 70C is not limit pushing at all.. Its hot yes but your card should be able to stand that for years without any issues..
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  • masterkeychnk5masterkeychnk5 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    70c is fine, so is 80. my 670GTX runs close to 85c sometimes (I dont want to make it too noisy :P)
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  • corvallecorvalle Member Posts: 254 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I run a GTX 690 Titan in SLi mode, temp hovers around 69-71c. Make sure you have proper ventilation throughout your case.
  • oldkilldareoldkilldare Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    lock down the framerate/vertical refresh to your monitors in both the game and the driver settings if you think it might be overheating.

    it wouldn't be the first game with a runaway framerate/overheating problem due to certain parts of the game not having flags set (usually the 2D bits).

    running in a window also prevents runaway sometimes.

    also you might wanna try manually setting the video memory usage (in troubleshooting right at the bottom) and changing it from "Auto" as it appears to be broken somehow and is causing some issues.
  • redsnake721redsnake721 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    This is the 1st time this has ever happened. Last night I was running CCE and the graphics started lagging then BOOM screen went black and the PC alert alarm went off. I shut down and after a reboot I had no video. I opened my case and my gforce GT650 was completly over heated. After I removed, inspected, blasted with air, and reinstalled I had video again. The event log showed it overheated and shut itself down. I found this article on another games tech support site that says that after a group of beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 320.49 , Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. So perhaps a Driver rool back? Not sure but there may be some sad gamers out there is NVIDIA does not get this fixed fast.
  • stoutesstoutes Member Posts: 4,219 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    redsnake721 wrote: »
    This is the 1st time this has ever happened. Last night I was running CCE and the graphics started lagging then BOOM screen went black and the PC alert alarm went off. I shut down and after a reboot I had no video. I opened my case and my gforce GT650 was completly over heated. After I removed, inspected, blasted with air, and reinstalled I had video again. The event log showed it overheated and shut itself down. I found this article on another games tech support site that says that after a group of beta testers reported technical difficulties following the installation of NVIDIA driver update 320.49 , Blizzard tech support found that the update introduced fan control problems that were causing video cards to overheat in 3D applications. So perhaps a Driver rool back? Not sure but there may be some sad gamers out there is NVIDIA does not get this fixed fast.

    ^^ Important info you've got there.
    I have a laptop myself which can actually play 3 STO instances simultaniously (tested) before it goes slow. But yeah, the GPU/CPU gets hot, no doubt about it...

    Although what the OP said about the max heat it can take; 70 is kinda low and considered well within any safe margins. Upper-end videocards can even heat up to 120C (quality comes with the price, unfortunatly).

    If you are worried and want to "solve" this heating problem, why don't fix a coolerfan on the side of your case / glueing / putting it on some kind of platform (or whatever) which blows air over the videocard? (do not forget to create some kind of opening where the heated air can escape)

    This may bring your card down by at least 5 to 10 degrees.
    maxvitor wrote: »
    Nerf is OP, plz nerf
    That's quite the paradox, how could you nerf nerf when the nerf is nerfed. But how would the nerf be nerfed when the nerf is nerfed? This allows the nerf not to be nerfed since the nerf is nerfed? But if the nerf isn't nerfed, it could still nerf nerfs. But as soon as the nerf is nerfed, the nerf power is lost. So paradoxally it the nerf nerf lost its nerf, while it's still nerfed, which cannot be because the nerf was unable to nerf.

    I call it, the Stoutes paradox.
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