About MSI Afterburner.

[Birthday Snatcher]

Can I increase the temp limit? But I noticed that the power limit increases is that good or not? This is what I have: https://imgur.com/a/3J196Oc

[tacoshy]

You can. It's hard locked by the manufacturer within certain safe limits.

[OLDMAN🎅]

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

You can. It's hard locked by the manufacturer within certain safe limits.

[Birthday Snatcher]

What about this fan curve: https://imgur.com/a/4K7qnyB ? Is it good?

[sawdust3d]

BurgerKingFan731님이 먼저 게시:

What about this fan curve: https://imgur.com/a/4K7qnyB ? Is it good?

Nope, not a good curve, you want your fans to hit 100% closer to your target temperature.

Say to want to keep your card in the 70s, set 100% to happen at say 65c.

It is very system dependant, and will take some monkeying around.

Personally, in Afterburner, I set profi!e 1 to stock settings, profile 5 to everything at 100% fixed (for benchmarking, etc.), and profile #3 to my everyday curve & 24/7 OC. Saving P2 & P4 for experimentation.

And yes, top 3 sliders can go all the way to the right (power, power limit & temp limit), these just allow the card to take what it wants; it doesn't force any voltage through the card.

You can also do stuff like set your intake can curve more aggressively than your exhaust fan curve to help maintain a slightly positive air pressure (PC won't suck in extra dust at positive pressure).

Happy cooling.

[Kaihekoa]

You cant break anything with Afterburner, so just experiment with things to find the settings that work best. Look up an overclocking guide first though and dont enable the setting that applies an overclock on startup.

[Birthday Snatcher]

sawdust3d님이 먼저 게시:

BurgerKingFan731님이 먼저 게시:

What about this fan curve: https://imgur.com/a/4K7qnyB ? Is it good?

Nope, not a good curve, you want your fans to hit 100% closer to your target temperature.

Say to want to keep your card in the 70s, set 100% to happen at say 65c.

It is very system dependant, and will take some monkeying around.

Personally, in Afterburner, I set profi!e 1 to stock settings, profile 5 to everything at 100% fixed (for benchmarking, etc.), and profile #3 to my everyday curve & 24/7 OC. Saving P2 & P4 for experimentation.

And yes, top 3 sliders can go all the way to the right (power, power limit & temp limit), these just allow the card to take what it wants; it doesn't force any voltage through the card.

You can also do stuff like set your intake can curve more aggressively than your exhaust fan curve to help maintain a slightly positive air pressure (PC won't suck in extra dust at positive pressure).

Happy cooling.

If I set it at max at 65, then it sound like a damn jet engine at starts making sounds that sound similar to beeping noises and my case fans start to freak out and do the same thing, because they use the same fan curve for some reason. But what's the problem with my curve? It stays at 78-81 with it. Isn't that good?

[sawdust3d]

It's totally goal dependent., If you're happy, then it's good.

That's typically the deciding factor for folks with air cooling; noise vs temp.

That is another reason I ♥♥♥♥ to set different curves for each fan "zone" GPU, Intake & exhaust (as a minimum,).

Plug you case fans into different MoBo headers for independent control. Odd that your case fans would respond to you GPU fan curve. If you post your case, MoBo and fan setup, I (we) can help you sort that out.

65c was just an example off the top of my head.

Yes your temps are fine.

Are your fans old? If it's a rattle trap at speed, new fans would probably help. they don't favt to be fancy; I picked up some cheap-ass Aigo fans for like $15 per pair just to change the color in one of my builds and they are whisper quiet and fixed at 100%. Granted they won't stay that way for a decade like a set of $40 Corsair fans, but you could replace them 3 times for the same price.

Again though, I you are happy, then game on. Cooling is just my thing.

[Birthday Snatcher]

sawdust3d님이 먼저 게시:

It's totally goal dependent., If you're happy, then it's good.

That's typically the deciding factor for folks with air cooling; noise vs temp.

That is another reason I ♥♥♥♥ to set different curves for each fan "zone" GPU, Intake & exhaust (as a minimum,).

Plug you case fans into different MoBo headers for independent control. Odd that your case fans would respond to you GPU fan curve. If you post your case, MoBo and fan setup, I (we) can help you sort that out.

65c was just an example off the top of my head.

Yes your temps are fine.

Are your fans old? If it's a rattle trap at speed, new fans would probably help. they don't favt to be fancy; I picked up some cheap-ass Aigo fans for like $15 per pair just to change the color in one of my builds and they are whisper quiet and fixed at 100%. Granted they won't stay that way for a decade like a set of $40 Corsair fans, but you could replace them 3 times for the same price.

Again though, I you are happy, then game on. Cooling is just my thing.

I use Arctic F12 PVM PST fans that are connected to sys_fan1 and sys_fan 2 on my H81M-P33 motherboard. Also, when I had it at 100% it started to sound like this: https://soundcloud.com/arnas-liegus/sounds-from-pc/s-Wh6Xp

[Bad 💀 Motha]

tacoshy님이 먼저 게시:

You can. It's hard locked by the manufacturer within certain safe limits.

No it's not, there is a tiny chain icon between them, click that to unlink the two. Then you can leave power boost at 100 if you like while raising temp limit up, or vice versa. I always just set to 90*C anyways since there is not much reason to have it be set lower.

But also, customize your fan curve or manually control the gpu fan.

I usually test a gpu in my system and then see how hot it could get based on 100% load and then set the fan to a manual % that would keep it below 80*C or so. Then what I do for normal os usage is leave it set to one of my profile #s where the fan is on auto. Before I launch a game I switch it to a profile # where the fan % is manually set. On most nvidia gpus, somewhere between 60-80% should be enough to never have the gpu overheat. But again it depends on many factors of course. Your room temp, your case airflow, and the actual gpu at-hand

[sawdust3d]

BurgerKingFan731님이 먼저 게시:

sawdust3d님이 먼저 게시:

It's totally goal dependent., If you're happy, then it's good.

That's typically the deciding factor for folks with air cooling; noise vs temp.

That is another reason I ♥♥♥♥ to set different curves for each fan "zone" GPU, Intake & exhaust (as a minimum,).

Plug you case fans into different MoBo headers for independent control. Odd that your case fans would respond to you GPU fan curve. If you post your case, MoBo and fan setup, I (we) can help you sort that out.

65c was just an example off the top of my head.

Yes your temps are fine.

Are your fans old? If it's a rattle trap at speed, new fans would probably help. they don't favt to be fancy; I picked up some cheap-ass Aigo fans for like $15 per pair just to change the color in one of my builds and they are whisper quiet and fixed at 100%. Granted they won't stay that way for a decade like a set of $40 Corsair fans, but you could replace them 3 times for the same price.

Again though, I you are happy, then game on. Cooling is just my thing.

I use Arctic F12 PVM PST fans that are connected to sys_fan1 and sys_fan 2 on my H81M-P33 motherboard. Also, when I had it at 100% it started to sound like this: https://soundcloud.com/arnas-liegus/sounds-from-pc/s-Wh6Xp

Yuck, that is noisy, hope that's all case fan.

1- Setting your GPU fan curve in Afterburner, shouln't effect you case fans as SYS_fan 1 & 2 can be controlled from the BIOS. What is your BIOS/REV?

I'll be messing around in the Bios of an older MSI MoBo later this evening and can look more specifically (haven't been in an MSI BIOS for A while).

2- I cranked up that clip & played it a few times. Seems like I can hear a pulsing to the noise that that may be indicative of bearings going or the fans being way out of balance from dust buildup. Or from that fans themselves getting loose from the case. Tighten down the fans and if it's still that bad, you may wanna splurge on some cheap new fans. Those fans of yours are pretty low end, so if they're old, the wear & noise isn't a shocker.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Afterburner only controls gpu fans, so its changes can't affect cpu or case fans.

[sawdust3d]

Exactly.

I'm guessing OP has something plugged somewhere goofy, or it';s something else completely.

I'm curious about the case fans to"freak out", as it were. Just want to see if we can't sort him out.

[Birthday Snatcher]

In that soundcloud link I sent, at around 6 seconds you can hear some kind of a grinding noise. That's the front case fan going crazy. I checked the srews and they don't screw more than they are now and I tried to move the fans using a bit of force, but they stay in place.

[sawdust3d]

I'm sticking with my new can recommendation.

But do please elaborate, on the case fans being effected by what you were doing in Afterburner.
Unless you did something purposefully, like fun your case fans off the headers on the GPU PCB, then then what you are describing shouldn't be possible. Or I'm totally misreading you.

[Birthday Snatcher]

sawdust3d님이 먼저 게시:

I'm sticking with my new can recommendation.

But do please elaborate, on the case fans being effected by what you were doing in Afterburner.
Unless you did something purposefully, like fun your case fans off the headers on the GPU PCB, then then what you are describing shouldn't be possible. Or I'm totally misreading you.

It only happens when my gpu reaches 90%+ of fan usage, so that's why I'm avoiding it.