How about keeping it cool?
How about keeping it cool?
What case are you running and did you add any extra intake fans on the left side? Your load temps stay under 88C max, but most chips hit 70C or less even on a Founders Edition 2060. The idle seems a little high, which might mean your GPU fan blades and heatsink need cleaning, or maybe the whole case needs it. Good air flow depends mostly on the case you have and the fans inside. If dust builds up too fast, try putting filters on all intakes and make sure there is a bit of positive pressure. To do this, look at the exact fan specs and use slightly more intake CFM than exhaust. It's easier if some fans can spin faster when needed.
I recently bought this entire computer about a month ago, but I don't see any dust at all. There are three fans pulling air in from the front and one pushing it out from the back of my case, named an AMTEC NX292.
That would be an Antec NX292 case. I don't really like that they are pushing too hard on the glass front because it stops air from moving in and can get hot faster than if there were open holes. Is your graphics card a "Founders Edition" version or is it overclocked? Also, how warm does your room feel when you play? The temps you're seeing aren't bad for gaming but they are not great for resting, especially while the PC isn't doing anything else. For heavy games, if you only reach 77 degrees Celsius or lower, that's fine and won't damage your card, it just feels a bit high compared to what most people report.
That makes sense now. A temperature between 84 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit is way too hot for regular air around your computer. I messed up on the front panel picture; it looked like glass in what you saw. I still want a case with an optional side mount fan spot though. You got that old Antec DF-85. Honestly, those temps aren't bad if the room isn't super hot. But if your idle temperatures have gone way too high, check to make sure both GPU fans are actually spinning. If they're working fine, the only thing I can suggest is setting up a custom fan profile for your graphics card. There are tons of free programs you can use for that, like MSI Afterburner, which is one of the most popular ones out there.
Just make sure it goes faster when it gets hotter. It really depends on how loud your GPU fans are and what noise you can stand for from them. About 30% speed around 50 degrees Celsius, then ramping up to 80% at 80 degrees is normal, but you have to tweak that based on the fan sounds and your comfort level. I'm still wondering why your idle temperature is so high though. Did you check if both fans are actually spinning when it's quiet? And did you say before that it used to run cooler when not in use? That GPU has coolers with fans going in opposite directions, which helps the two work together to throw hot air out quickly through a side vent between them. But if that glass panel on your left is too close to the GPU, the processor might get a bit warm at idle before it gets fully hot when you start using it and the fan kicks up the speed to push air out the exhaust instead of letting it pile up inside the case. A better fan setup could help fix this. You don't need to crank up high-end cooling too much since an average max load of 70 degrees is fine, and you aren't that far away from that goal. Most of this problem comes down to your room being really hot in the first place though. Is there any way you can cool that ambient air? Maybe by putting blinds on windows or using cross-ventilation like opening a door slightly to let fresh air move through instead of just letting stale hot air stay inside sometimes all it takes is cracking one window just a tiny bit to clear out the warm stuff.
thank you so much, sir! I just noticed that i turned on "performance max" for my power management settings. Before this, my GPU was running at 1365 MHz while the memory clock sat at 7000 MHz when there wasn't any work happening. This caused it to get really hot, reaching up to 50 degrees. Now that i've switched it to "adaptive," everything is in control. Thanks a lot for your time and support, sir! Really appreciate it. 🙏
No problem, good that you found the cause of the high idle temps. A tip I often give people on GPU performance settings is to use Nvidia Control Panel to individually set games that have demanding graphics via their own profile, vs globally. That way the GPU will only run at max when the game launches, and go back to normal idle speed when you exit it. With Adaptive mode you're trusting NCP to adjust it as it senses demand from the game, which can involve latency in reaction time. Via individual profiles it will go to and stay at max performance as long as the game is running. So Adaptive is similar, but not at all the same. It just depends how picky you are with game performance and FPS fluctuation. 😉