Graphics card idle temperature (with dual monitors)

[Hella Henners]

Hi.

My graphics card (GTX 560 Ti) seems to like to idle at a rather high 55 to 60C when outputting two monitors. This would be often with web browsing on one and my desktop with my GPU/CPU gadgets on the other. However, when I disconnect my second monitor the temperature quickly drops to around 40C and then idling at around 35C. I don't how see outputting to an extra monitor with nothing happening on it can cause my card to heat up by an extra 20C. Anyone else got any ideas or experiences?

Thanks

[[☥] - CJ -]

I believe its normal, as the GPU itself is being used for dual monitors only makes sense that GPU usage is up.

You could try changing the power mode to adaptive in the NVCP if its set to performance, that should help.

[Hella Henners]

It is set to adaptive, rather than the high performance setting.

[Tidefighter]

Fermi bug^^ keeps gpu high power state when 2 different screens are connected. Try driver update, or use nvidia inspector.

[Heroxoot]

Dual monitors should keep the ram at a higher clock causing more heat.

[VisciousFishes]

1 card 2 monitors, twice as much load on the GPU, even just running 2 "desktop" screens, so it stands to reason the temperatures would be higher. The fact you're card is rendering 2 desktops means the card is rendering at 2:1 (pictures to card), so it would nearly double the op temps.