GPU temperature is 50C when idle

[Antonis301]

I don't know what changed but it was always around 38C.
Any thoughts?

[BloodShed]

What type of fan does your GPU use?
Standard or centrifugal?

Because if it's a centrifugal fan, then it's very likely you have dust build up against the heatsink from the fan.
You'll need to remove GPU to carefully unscrew and remove the shroud to remove the dust.

A standard fan configuration is a similar situation, but removing the dust rarely requires the removal of the shroud.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Most do this kind of idle temp when the fans aren't on, which is the norm for modern GPUs the last few years due to their 0db profile. You can use something like MSI Afterburner and configure a profile with a user modified fan curve and have the fans at around 1000rpm or less when GPU is around 55*C or less. Then have them rev up a bit more and more based on Temps such as 60*C; 65*C; 70;C...

Keep in mind Win10 and 11 OS Desktop will use the GPU a little bit. Even more so if you launch a web browser or an app such as Steam Client

[Iron Knights]

Adjust your fans curve in the drivers. Drivers don't have it ? 3rd Party App. unfortunately.
I have an AMD GPU and they had fan adjustments since forever.
Set fans to go 100% at 60C and scale it down to 40% at 35C.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No you can't adjust via Drivers alone unless you are using a dedicated AMD GPU with AMD Adrenaline. Nvidia users or those with certain legacy AMD GPUs will need to use something like MSI Afterburner. Most of us prefer MSI Ab because it's known to work well pretty much regardless of which NVIDIA GPU you have. It can work on some AMD GPUs but not if using AMD Adrenaline new enough to have that feature built-in since this would conflict with apps like Afterburner

[Iron Knights]

AMD has been "Adrenalin" version since ~2016 ? It's NOT an add-on, comes integrated in the drivers.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Iron Knights:

AMD has been "Adrenalin" version since ~2016 ? It's NOT an add-on, comes integrated in the drivers.

Well I get that but I meant in regards to that having GPU Fan controls. Adrenaline has not always had that feature. So if it does for your PC, try using that. It might be possible yo disable just that feature and use MSI Afterburner for your GPU but I'm not sure. My AMD GPU stuff are all at work since I don't have any PC in my home with dedicated AMD GPU so I can't mess with it myself atm.