GTX 460 running high stock temp.

fall · 01-02-11, 01:27 PM

I have 2 gtx 460s from evga

one is the standard like this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130571

and the other is the EE version - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130568

i have the EE set up as GPU 1 and standard as GPU 2 in sli. the EE version runs at 50C at 60% fan just idle then in crysis or something well surpasses 100C.

At first i thought it was just the SLI so i turned that off and removed GPU2 but it is still running 40 - 50C idle.

I am eventually getting water blocks for them but if it runs high on air it will still run hot on water.

Any Ideas???

EDIT: the standard one never passes 30C on idle in sli or by itself. and Load tops at about 55C

Grief · 01-02-11, 02:40 PM

Poorly mounted heatsink try to remove it, redo the thermal paste and then tighten it.

tonychang · 01-02-11, 02:54 PM

These cards run hot those are average idle temperatures, but they can be improved. Use Precision from EVGA to change fan speeds, I run an EVGA GTX470 and fan speed set to auto it gets up to 85c. I force it to 80% and it doesn't go past 60 now. Try that for both cards, see if it helps.

You can download EVGA Precision from the evga website but you will need to sign up before you can download it ( assuming you don't already have it ). If you do, then just set them to 80% and you'll see the difference.

If nothing changes after this then I would definitely check the heatsink for possible issues there.

Grief · 01-02-11, 02:56 PM

My GTX 460 idles at 30°C lol.

tonychang · 01-02-11, 03:33 PM

Idle temps should be in the 30-40c range for this card. At full load I beleive their max rating to be around 100c, but you definitely don't want to run near that. 70c is a good temp to aim for at these cards, and can be controlled via the fan speed settings on EVGA precision.

geeeduck · 01-02-11, 03:59 PM

My card runs below 30c at idle. Load temps have never gone over 50c. Thats after running the GPU Folding client for the past 10 days straight. Currently overclocked to 820/1640/1900.

wingman99 · 01-02-11, 04:09 PM

Maybe you could warranty your card and get a new one.

tonychang · 01-02-11, 04:27 PM

To geeeduck and Grief, are you guys running the EVGA version of the card?

geeeduck · 01-02-11, 04:56 PM

Yeah, I'm running EVGA. The standard one.

Grief · 01-02-11, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by tonychang

To geeeduck and Grief, are you guys running the EVGA version of the card?

I have a gigabyte, but if the other one runs way lower. Then somting is wrong lol.

fall · 01-03-11, 09:32 AM

well i am running the EVGA precision and above 60% that little thing gets loud lol. But ill try and tighten the heatsync. If that is a bust ill call them and see whats up. and if that dont work ill just slap a water block on it and call it a day lol

ratbuddy · 01-03-11, 09:58 AM

The EVGA EE version uses a cheap cooler that runs hot and loud. You might pick up a couple degrees by remounting, but those temps are about right.

tonychang · 01-03-11, 01:56 PM

Do a google search for "EVGA GTX460 temperature" and you will come accross a lot of good information.

You should be idling in the 30-40c range and at full load it's normal to see temps around 70-80.

jazon1 · 01-03-11, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by tonychang

Do a google search for "EVGA GTX460 temperature" and you will come accross a lot of good information.

You should be idling in the 30-40c range and at full load it's normal to see temps around 70-80.

same goes for the evea 470gtx only idle is about 45c fully loaded i never see it go above 75c

tonychang · 01-03-11, 06:04 PM

The evga gtx470 superclocked, is what im currently running. Using the EVGA Precision fan tool, it defaults to "auto"(allowing the fan speed to increase with temperature; but for some reason it doesn't do that great of a job). This saw my 470 SC temps reach around 82c at full load. Forcing the fan speed however (setting it to a constant 75%) has lowered my full load temperatures to 58c, a huge difference.

The 470's run hotter than the 460's from what I've researched so far, check this out...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3810/n...vendor-cards/8

BigDan3131 · 01-08-11, 12:49 AM

Be happy if you can even o/c your card...after reading more about mine on Google I have no choice but to go with an aftermarket cooler of some kind. Mine's the Palit 2GB GTX 460 while the card is great and my idle temps hover at 28 C all day. My gaming temps skyrocket to 80 C and even going to 75% on my fan barely seems to help. I will let you all know what I can do to improve it the low buck way and hopefully I will make it better.

k88 · 02-02-11, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jazon1

same goes for the evea 470gtx only idle is about 45c fully loaded i never see it go above 75c

that´s my temps 39C idle and 75 sometimes 80C full load, and I thought I have high temps

k88 · 02-04-11, 11:05 AM

what can we do to get better temps? besides improve the airflow in my case, I have one front 120mm fan and the rear, I don´t bother the noise of the fan if I have to set to 60% to get lower temps

01-02-11, 01:27 PM	Thread Starter #1
fall Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Arlington	GTX 460 running high stock temp. I have 2 gtx 460s from evga one is the standard like this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130571 and the other is the EE version - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130568 i have the EE set up as GPU 1 and standard as GPU 2 in sli. the EE version runs at 50C at 60% fan just idle then in crysis or something well surpasses 100C. At first i thought it was just the SLI so i turned that off and removed GPU2 but it is still running 40 - 50C idle. I am eventually getting water blocks for them but if it runs high on air it will still run hot on water. Any Ideas??? EDIT: the standard one never passes 30C on idle in sli or by itself. and Load tops at about 55C __________________ i7-2600K @ 4.5ghz & 1.25v \| 5ghz & 1.38v Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Corsair Vengence 12gb AMD Radeon 6950 (Unlocked) CrossFire SSD1 = Mushkin 120 (Arch Linux) SSD2 = G.Skill Sniper 120GB Dell U2311H
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01-02-11, 02:40 PM	#2
Grief Member Join Date: Jul 2010	Poorly mounted heatsink try to remove it, redo the thermal paste and then tighten it. __________________ Intel i5-650 @ 4.2GHz 1.34Vcore Asus P7P55D Corsair XMS3 1600 8-8-8-23 Inferno Patriot 60GB / WD Caviar Black 500GB GTX 460 900/1800/2000 1.050 Corsair HX 850 Coolermaster HAF-932
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01-02-11, 02:54 PM	#3
tonychang Registered Join Date: Jan 2011	These cards run hot those are average idle temperatures, but they can be improved. Use Precision from EVGA to change fan speeds, I run an EVGA GTX470 and fan speed set to auto it gets up to 85c. I force it to 80% and it doesn't go past 60 now. Try that for both cards, see if it helps. You can download EVGA Precision from the evga website but you will need to sign up before you can download it ( assuming you don't already have it ). If you do, then just set them to 80% and you'll see the difference. If nothing changes after this then I would definitely check the heatsink for possible issues there.
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01-02-11, 02:56 PM	#4
Grief Member Join Date: Jul 2010	My GTX 460 idles at 30°C lol. __________________ Intel i5-650 @ 4.2GHz 1.34Vcore Asus P7P55D Corsair XMS3 1600 8-8-8-23 Inferno Patriot 60GB / WD Caviar Black 500GB GTX 460 900/1800/2000 1.050 Corsair HX 850 Coolermaster HAF-932
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01-02-11, 03:33 PM	#5
tonychang Registered Join Date: Jan 2011	Idle temps should be in the 30-40c range for this card. At full load I beleive their max rating to be around 100c, but you definitely don't want to run near that. 70c is a good temp to aim for at these cards, and can be controlled via the fan speed settings on EVGA precision.
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01-02-11, 03:59 PM	#6
geeeduck Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Chino, CA	My card runs below 30c at idle. Load temps have never gone over 50c. Thats after running the GPU Folding client for the past 10 days straight. Currently overclocked to 820/1640/1900.
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01-02-11, 04:09 PM	#7
wingman99 Member Join Date: Dec 2003	Maybe you could warranty your card and get a new one. __________________ i5 2500K @5.0 GHz Motherboard Gigabyte Z68A-D3-B3 G.SKILL RipjawsX X.M.P. 1600MHz EVGA SuperClocked GTX 570 SOLD Ivy bridge i5 3570k
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01-02-11, 04:27 PM	#8
tonychang Registered Join Date: Jan 2011	To geeeduck and Grief, are you guys running the EVGA version of the card?
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01-02-11, 04:56 PM	#9
geeeduck Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Chino, CA	Yeah, I'm running EVGA. The standard one.
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01-03-11, 09:32 AM	Thread Starter #11
fall Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Arlington	well i am running the EVGA precision and above 60% that little thing gets loud lol. But ill try and tighten the heatsync. If that is a bust ill call them and see whats up. and if that dont work ill just slap a water block on it and call it a day lol __________________ i7-2600K @ 4.5ghz & 1.25v \| 5ghz & 1.38v Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Corsair Vengence 12gb AMD Radeon 6950 (Unlocked) CrossFire SSD1 = Mushkin 120 (Arch Linux) SSD2 = G.Skill Sniper 120GB Dell U2311H
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01-03-11, 09:58 AM	#12
ratbuddy Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Hartford, CT	The EVGA EE version uses a cheap cooler that runs hot and loud. You might pick up a couple degrees by remounting, but those temps are about right. __________________ HTPC - 2500k - 212+ - GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 - 2x4GB G.Skill DDR3-1600 - Vertex 2 90GB, Spinpoint F3 1TB w/M4 64GB ISRT Cache - Gigabyte GTX 460 1GB SLI - Silverstone LC10B-E - Corsair TX750W ----- Main - X3 450 - ASRock A790GMH/128M 790GX - 2x2GB G.Skill 4-4-4-12 - 2xWD Green 1TB - Silverstone TJ08 - Corsair CX400W Nothin' up my sleeve..
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01-03-11, 01:56 PM	#13
tonychang Registered Join Date: Jan 2011	Do a google search for "EVGA GTX460 temperature" and you will come accross a lot of good information. You should be idling in the 30-40c range and at full load it's normal to see temps around 70-80.
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01-03-11, 06:04 PM	#15
tonychang Registered Join Date: Jan 2011	The evga gtx470 superclocked, is what im currently running. Using the EVGA Precision fan tool, it defaults to "auto"(allowing the fan speed to increase with temperature; but for some reason it doesn't do that great of a job). This saw my 470 SC temps reach around 82c at full load. Forcing the fan speed however (setting it to a constant 75%) has lowered my full load temperatures to 58c, a huge difference. The 470's run hotter than the 460's from what I've researched so far, check this out... http://www.anandtech.com/show/3810/n...vendor-cards/8
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01-08-11, 12:49 AM	#16
BigDan3131 Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Issaquah, Washington	Be happy if you can even o/c your card...after reading more about mine on Google I have no choice but to go with an aftermarket cooler of some kind. Mine's the Palit 2GB GTX 460 while the card is great and my idle temps hover at 28 C all day. My gaming temps skyrocket to 80 C and even going to 75% on my fan barely seems to help. I will let you all know what I can do to improve it the low buck way and hopefully I will make it better. __________________ MSI X58 Platinum 950 cpu, X-FI 6Gb Patriot Viper 1333 1 1Tb Caviar black 2x460 GTX 2Gb Vid Too much info too little money = :mad: gamer
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02-04-11, 11:05 AM	#18
k88 Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Guatemala	what can we do to get better temps? besides improve the airflow in my case, I have one front 120mm fan and the rear, I don´t bother the noise of the fan if I have to set to 60% to get lower temps __________________ Phenom II 955 BE w/ CM H212+ Asus M4a89GTD PRO/USB3 4Gb DDR3 Corsair XMS3 1600mhz 7-7-7-20 Seagate 500gb SataII 7200.12 rpm Corsair 650TX Mk300 TT V3 BE
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