So about my GTX 1070

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

I am concerned about my GTX 1070 here, I have heard these cards' fans do not spin unless they are under heavy load and I also have heard that these cards are designed to be very cool to operate.

So, this is what concerns me here: I had recently installed GTA V yesterday and played it 7 hours straight and they did not kick in at all. I would think after continuous play like that they would have gotten rather warm at that point and ran?

Is there any reason to worry?

[Air]

Watch your temps with MSI Afterburner. So long as your GPU temps aren't going past 85°C, you're fine.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Air:

Watch your temps with MSI Afterburner. So long as your GPU temps aren't going past 85°C, you're fine.

Alright, thanks. It just seems odd though.

[Sticky Honeybuns]

Fan curves out of the box are crap and not nearly aggressive enough. I always set a custom fan profile for my cards, including my 1070. I highly recommend the same for you as well. Also your fans are definitely on at all times you just aren't hearing them.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Run a stress test on any new GPU to ensure the default fan curve is working; while also watching your Temps. Newer gen NVIDIA GPUs, the fans should kick in around 60-65*C which is still fairly cool for such GPUs anyways. But yea not aggressive as I like. I just manually control my fans all around, GPU and all.

Below 60*C though; not having GPU fans kicking in really is fine though. As that is not hot for that. Overall they stand by the designs of the cards, so if you have an issue from a new product, try to make sure of that early on and if need be, get it replaced right away if not doing as it should. I mean I could play GTAV all day long without exiting it, and never have a dual or triple fan-based NVIDIA GTX 1060 or even better GPU and not go above 70-75*C; so really that is fine. If it's actually hitting 83-85*C+ then yes something is wrong, either the fan curve is not set well enough and/or you lack good Case Airflow overall. The main two I'm using (980 Ti and 1070 are both liquid cooled though, so those stay well below 60*C at max loads); but yea I've used and tested many others.

Good idea to always read up on any new Motherboard or GPU you plan to get, so you understand the involved factors such as this, ahead of time prior to purchase.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Sticky Honeybuns:

Fan curves out of the box are crap and not nearly aggressive enough. I always set a custom fan profile for my cards, including my 1070. I highly recommend the same for you as well. Also your fans are definitely on at all times you just aren't hearing them.

Humm, strange, whenever I shine a flash-light into my rig I can clearly see them not spinning.

Originally posted by Bad-Motha:

Run a stress test on any new GPU to ensure the default fan curve is working; while also watching your Temps. Newer gen NVIDIA GPUs, the fans should kick in around 60-65*C which is still fairly cool for such GPUs anyways. But yea not aggressive as I like. I just manually control my fans all around, GPU and all.

Below 60*C though; not having GPU fans kicking in really is fine though. As that is not hot for that. Overall they stand by the designs of the cards, so if you have an issue from a new product, try to make sure of that early on and if need be, get it replaced right away if not doing as it should. I mean I could play GTAV all day long without exiting it, and never have a dual or triple fan-based NVIDIA GTX 1060 or even better GPU and not go above 70-75*C; so really that is fine. If it's actually hitting 83-85*C+ then yes something is wrong, either the fan curve is not set well enough and/or you lack good Case Airflow overall. The main two I'm using (980 Ti and 1070 are both liquid cooled though, so those stay well below 60*C at max loads); but yea I've used and tested many others.

Good idea to always read up on any new Motherboard or GPU you plan to get, so you understand the involved factors such as this, ahead of time prior to purchase.

All good advise, thank you.

I admit, I am rather new to these sort of things. I'm abit of an old timer when it comes to PCs (been using em' since the '90s) so these new GPUs and things are all alien tech to me. I always figured GPU fans would run on startup like they did back in the old days or heh... 'Dark Ages' of tech as I like to call it.

I never had a computer like this before with that said.

By the way, there is no liquid cooling for my rig but the temps seem to be stable.

[Sticky Honeybuns]

So, you are saying that while you are playing GTA 5 your fans never come on? If thats the case then there is something wrong and I would be careful about playing any games. This is where it doesn't make sense because if you were playing and the fans didn't come on then your card will most likely overheat. The only possible answer would be that your fan curve is set so high and your case cooling is so good that your fans never come on. I've never seen that before though.

I have a 1070 and a 1080 and both the fans run non stop while gaming. I do have custom fan profiles though.

Have you monitored your temps?

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Sticky Honeybuns:

So, you are saying that while you are playing GTA 5 your fans never come on? If thats the case then there is something wrong and I would be careful about playing any games. This is where it doesn't make sense because if you were playing and the fans didn't come on then your card will most likely overheat. The only possible answer would be that your fan curve is set so high and your case cooling is so good that your fans never come on. I've never seen that before though.

I have a 1070 and a 1080 and both the fans run non stop while gaming. I do have custom fan profiles though.

Have you monitored your temps?

I have not done that but I should... my game does stutter here and there somertimes. Could be a sign of overheating perhaps?

[Azza ☠]

Depending on the brand.

Asus STRIX or the latest EVGA with ACX Cooler do that on purpose, for zero noise, using the huge heatsink to draw away the heat instead. You can use they graphics card app to adjust this fan curve accordingly to what you need/want in your PC case.

For example: If you need low area airflow for the other component, have the graphic card fans always on instead. Else just adjust the temperature to speed ratio to a smooth flow.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Depending on the brand.

Asus STRIX or the latest EVGA with ACX Cooler do that on purpose, for zero noise, using the huge heatsink to draw away the heat instead. You can use they graphics card app to adjust this fan curve accordingly to what you need/want in your PC case.

For example: If you need low area airflow for the other component, have the graphic card fans always on instead. Else just adjust the temperature to speed ratio to a smooth flow.

Alright, well, um, mine is a MSI GeForce GTX 1070 apparently.

Can you tell me anything about it? Sorry, I feel like such a 'tard right now.

[oobymach]

Mine stutter if I don't use a custom fan profile, I use msi afterburner 4.3.0 and I have asus strix cards, just load the software and click settings at the bottom, from there click fan at the top and click enable user blah and set a profile (I use just 2 points, one at 40% 40 degrees, the other at 80% 60 degrees), you can also delete the extra points you make by mistake here. Fan update speed 5000 milliseconds (5 seconds).

Now click monitoring at the top, under graph deselect everything (unless you want to leave some on like temperature, I uncheck all), then set hardware polling period to 60000 milliseconds (as high as it goes, use less like 5 second intervals if you're using any monitoring graph). Click ok.

Optional for overclocking, under general tab use kernel mode (low level hw access interface) and whichever version your card is from the unlock voltage control drop down. I have mine set to start with windows but I have 'apply overclocking at system startup' unchecked just in case I go too far overclocking, it won't boot with the bad clocks applied.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by SgtEmissary:

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Depending on the brand.

Asus STRIX or the latest EVGA with ACX Cooler do that on purpose, for zero noise, using the huge heatsink to draw away the heat instead. You can use they graphics card app to adjust this fan curve accordingly to what you need/want in your PC case.

For example: If you need low area airflow for the other component, have the graphic card fans always on instead. Else just adjust the temperature to speed ratio to a smooth flow.

Alright, well, um, mine is a MSI GeForce GTX 1070 apparently.

Can you tell me anything about it? Sorry, I feel like such a 'tard right now.

Nah man, it's good you noticed and questioned it.

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 uses TORX 2.0 fans.

These work mostly on increasing air pressure for the flow. It will use the TWIN FROZR VI heat pipes to direct the heat away from the graphics card to the heatsink, even when the fans are off.

Completely silent during idle, multimedia or light gaming if the temperature is below 60 degrees (by default).

If you want to adjust this, use the appication called "MSI Afterburner"
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

It's for overclocking, but suggest just ignoring that part and adjusting the fan curve, if desired. Setup a custom fan profile under that. It will depend on your own PC case and room temperature, etc, to what is the best settings to use.

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Originally posted by SgtEmissary:

Alright, well, um, mine is a MSI GeForce GTX 1070 apparently.

Can you tell me anything about it? Sorry, I feel like such a 'tard right now.

Nah man, it's good you noticed and questioned it.

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 uses TORX 2.0 fans.

These work mostly on increasing air pressure for the flow. It will use the TWIN FROZR VI heat pipes to direct the heat away from the graphics card to the heatsink, even when the fans are off.

Completely silent during idle, multimedia or light gaming if the temperature is below 60 degrees (by default).

If you want to adjust this, use the appication called "MSI Afterburner"
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

It's for overclocking, but suggest just ignoring that part and adjusting the fan curve, if desired. Setup a custom fan profile under that. It will depend on your own PC case and room temperature, etc, to what is the best settings to use.

Humm, so that would explain everything then. I feel a little more at ease now. I have downloaded Afterburner and the temps are 35-47C. It's remained there for about an hour of play now. This thing is cool as ice apparently...

Strangely I still get stuttering here and there though.

If you need any more information on my rig and what you could possibly tell me about it I use a rig by MSI themselves; their Aegis model. I've look around the best that I can but maybe there's something you guys know that I might have missed.

Many thanks to all, it's well appreciated.

[Azza ☠]

Originally posted by SgtEmissary:

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Nah man, it's good you noticed and questioned it.

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 uses TORX 2.0 fans.

These work mostly on increasing air pressure for the flow. It will use the TWIN FROZR VI heat pipes to direct the heat away from the graphics card to the heatsink, even when the fans are off.

Completely silent during idle, multimedia or light gaming if the temperature is below 60 degrees (by default).

If you want to adjust this, use the appication called "MSI Afterburner"
https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

It's for overclocking, but suggest just ignoring that part and adjusting the fan curve, if desired. Setup a custom fan profile under that. It will depend on your own PC case and room temperature, etc, to what is the best settings to use.

Humm, so that would explain everything then. I feel a little more at ease now. I have downloaded Afterburner and the temps are 35-47C. It's remained there for about an hour of play now. This thing is cool as ice apparently...

Strangely I still get stuttering here and there though.

If you need any more information on my rig and what you could possibly tell me about it I use a rig by MSI themselves; their Aegis model. I've look around the best that I can but maybe there's something you guys know that I might have missed.

Many thanks to all, it's well appreciated.

What is your monitor model? Resolution? Refresh rate?

Do you have V-SYNC enabled?

Not using Nvidia DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) or Windows Resolution Scaling?

GTX 1070 should be ideal for 1440p resolution and not stutter at all even on very high settings. If you are using "GeForce Experience" with the graphics card, add the steam folder and other game folders, then apply optimal settings to each game, but ensure the resolution is native rather than DSR (higher resolution which then gets down sampled to the monitor).

You can get the latest drivers from:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

[SgtEmissary [Kane's Will]]

Originally posted by Azza ☠:

Originally posted by SgtEmissary:

Humm, so that would explain everything then. I feel a little more at ease now. I have downloaded Afterburner and the temps are 35-47C. It's remained there for about an hour of play now. This thing is cool as ice apparently...

Strangely I still get stuttering here and there though.

If you need any more information on my rig and what you could possibly tell me about it I use a rig by MSI themselves; their Aegis model. I've look around the best that I can but maybe there's something you guys know that I might have missed.

Many thanks to all, it's well appreciated.

What is your monitor model? Resolution?

Do you have V-SYNC enabled?

Not using Nvidia DSR (Dynamic Super Resolution) or Windows Resolution Scaling?

GTX 1070 should be ideal for 1440p resolution and not stutter at all even on very high settings. If you are using "GeForce Experience" with the graphics card, add the steam folder and other game folders, then apply optimal settings to each game, but ensure the resolution is native rather than DSR (higher resolution which then gets down sampled to the monitor).

You can get the latest drivers from:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

AOC 2269W apparently from what Device Manager says.

Native resolution is 1920 x 1080 (it says it's recommended to be at that setting so I figure it'd be it) Refresh rate is 60 Ghz

V-Sync is on yes.

Not sure how I access those settings to be honest, I'm in Nvidia Control panel but don't see those options anywhere. To be honest, I've been a Radeon guy, just recently switched over To Nividia once I got this new rig so I'm very new with these kinds of cards.

[Black Mambo № 5]

Since you now have Afterburner, if you are still worried about default fan curves, then I have my custom setup I've been using since 2 years, works like a charm. Of course, my card is a GTX970, so your mileage will vary. But overall its a very well balanced fan profile. Here -- http://imgur.com/a/Igp2S

You can also use Afterburner's in built monitoring for GPU stats such as temps, fan RPM, FPS, frame-time, etc. Once you figure out what temps your card hovers at, then it can be rather easy to adjust your fan profile appropriately.
You can also have the stats displayed in-game, makes monitoring real easy. Although, recent Afterburner executables don't come bundled with MSI RivaTuner, which is needed for in-game overlay. You can download it here -- http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/rtss-rivatuner-statistics-server-download.html
Setting it up is rather easy, and you can turn it on/off with a key-combination. Its a nice monitoring overlay.