EVGA GTX 1060 3GB temps

[Alienwarriorr]

i have the Evga GTX 1060 3GB the smaller variant of the card it has but one fan and when i play the witcher 3 i get great performance but i notcied my card gets to 83 degrees C and just sits there. ive been told thats normal for this card but i just want to make sure. is it safe to run it at this temp for any length of time? it gets to that degree rather quickly. but every other game its noticeably lower.

[Mint Slice]

Probably a bit too high for a nvidia card considering my 390 runs around the same temp with this game.

[crazymike]

Seems like 82-85C is the thermal limit on an Nvidia card. It starts declocking around that temp. Try setting your fans to about 60% in Afterburner or whatever utility comes with the EVGA cards and see how it does. I run 2 MSI 1080 gaming x cards in sli and my temps don't get over 65C, but my fans are running at 70% when I'm gaming.

[Alienwarriorr]

ok so i downloaded presicion OXC from EVGA considering thats what i have. and i set the power level to 84% and the temp to 76 to just see how it handles. and i played for about 30 minutes and it stays at around 74 so it has an effect. now my only question with this is... will it affect the performance of my games? not being able to draw from the card like it wants to. and will this have any kind of negative affects on my system

[Slimyrock]

Originally posted by Alienwarriorr:

ok so i downloaded presicion OXC from EVGA considering thats what i have. and i set the power level to 84% and the temp to 76 to just see how it handles. and i played for about 30 minutes and it stays at around 74 so it has an effect. now my only question with this is... will it affect the performance of my games? not being able to draw from the card like it wants to. and will this have any kind of negative affects on my system

Also set a more aggressive fan profile, I have my 1070 (although I do this on any system I build) set at 50% no matter what, at 40 degrees it goes to 70%, at 50 degrees it goes to 90%, I don't set it higher than 95% after that. Try this, but leave the power levels alone, and see what that does first. Also how is the air flow in your case? If you have poor cable managements and they are blocking air flow, it's going to heat up quicker. Blow out any large dust lodged in the cooling fins of your 1060. My 1070 never gets above 55 degrees or so.

Also when it comes to the EVGA Precision XOC, get the stand alone version, not the steam. Go into the settings and set it to come on with windows, and there is a start with windows icon on the main screen, click that too. But if you don't click the one in the settings, it will not come on with your computer, and the fan profile will be pointless.

[Alienwarriorr]

how to i set it at 50%?

[Slimyrock]

Originally posted by Alienwarriorr:

how to i set it at 50%?

on the bottom right there is a fan gauge, it says curve, and auto. Click the auto to turn it on, then click on the curve, that will bring up a graph. Temp on bottom, percentage of fan speed on the left. on the left make sure it is on 50, on the bottom when it gets to certain temps, it will turn to that percentage then. Don't mess with the power draw though.

[Alienwarriorr]

ok so leave the power at default which in my case is 100. i have the graph set up to 50% until 40 degrees then it goes up to 70% then at 50 degrees it goes up to 90% and after that its like 80 degress 95%

[Slimyrock]

Originally posted by Alienwarriorr:

ok so leave the power at default which in my case is 100. i have the graph set up to 50% until 40 degrees then it goes up to 70% then at 50 degrees it goes up to 90% and after that its like 80 degress 95%

yes. Leave all the defaults. The fans are set pretty aggressively now. Also make sure you go into your settings, the little gear by in the bottom right. Set to start with with windows and set minimized on the general tab

This should keep your card a lot cooler

[Slimyrock]

Also what are you other specs? Just curious is all. And do you have good cooling? Intake fans, exhaust, no power supply wires in the way of air flow inside your case?

[Alienwarriorr]

AMD 8350 black edition 4.2GHz
EVGA GTX 1060
16GiGs of Ram

[Alienwarriorr]

and im not sure of the case but its really neat and the cord management is really nice nothing in the way

[Chikuwu]

It is high id say. I have massive overclock on my RX480 8GB MSI model (from 1299 --> 1450mhz) and it wont go over 68C while playing.

[Slimyrock]

Originally posted by Alienwarriorr:

AMD 8350 black edition 4.2GHz
EVGA GTX 1060
16GiGs of Ram

I ran close to the same setup, I had a 1070 with my AMD setup and was able to get 90 FPS on high settings, the CPU heated up a little, video card around 55-60, CPU around the same. No isues. I think with an aggressive fan profile, and maybe a front fan directly on the video card, you shouldn't be over heating. Most newer cards are designed where the fans don't even come on till the card hits the 60 degree mark, I hate this. You spent the money on your product, heat is your worst enemy, I'd rather deal with some fan noise rather than replacing my card every 6 months due to high heat wear. Same with the CPU cooler, if you have the room go with an Cooler Master 212 EVO for air, it's tall so make sure you have room for it, and turn off the fan control for it on your bios so it's always running at full speed. It's a $25-30 cooler, and works great. If you need a low profile fan, corsair has some low cost closed loop water coolers that will work great.

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[Negativity™]

980ti@1380mhz never goes above 60c @1080p ultra hairworks off

[Big Boom Boom]

EVGA ACX cooler is bad and that's why they revamped it into ICX cooler. They do offer free thermal pads too.

Tinker with fan curve, not temp target. Temp target should be left default at 83C where the chip I'll throttle by factory default. I would never mess with this when Overclocking the GPU.

How hot your GPU is dependent on the usage. Stress test 100% usage with benchmark is an easy way to check it.