Is my GPU Okay?

[samcol]

Hi,

I have the Palit GTX970 which I've had since Friday.
I've checked online and I'm not sure whether the stats I'm getting in MSI Afterburner / GPU-Z are worrying or not as the GPU fans are getting much louder than I anticipated.

Please forgive me if this is ridiculous as I'm brand new to all this and trying to get my head around it.

This is what I'm getting when at desktop:

Power 12%
GPU Temperature 45 (C)
Fan Speed 0%
Core Clock MHZ 135
Mam Clock 135MHz
GPU Usage 2%

When running Day Z with all settings maxed i get the following (max):

Power 98%
GPU Temperature 74 (C).
Fan Speed 44%
Core Clock 1380MHz
Mem Clock 3506MHz
GPU Usage 98%

I read that the temperatures on the 970 are fairly low even on stock?

Any help will be hugely appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Wozza63]

well 45c is a little high at idle but it seems the fans are being turned off completely there, thats a good thing, saves power etc for a little bit of increased heat output.

74c also isn't bad for such a high powered GPU and 44% fan speed is nothing. I think my R9 280 hits a similar temperature with a similar fan speed. Nothing to be concerned about even if it went to 80% and 95c. The software knows what its doing, and there is a very little chance the GPU would overheat without doing something insane due to the safety features in place.

 

[samcol]

Great, thanks for that. Just was concerned after reading about how efficient the card is. It does get pretty noisy like a humming sound even at 40% though so I'll have to invest in a decent pair of headphones.

 

[Wozza63]

Have you considered that it may be another fan on the computer? It could be one of the case fans kicking in or maybe the one on the CPU?

 

[samcol]

Im pretty certain it's the GPU fans. The GPU fan is the only one that isn't spinning when there isn't a noise and like i said, when I start to ramp up the graphics I can see the Fan kicking in and then the noise starts up. I have the H80i CPU cooler and that seems to be running fine. I've even taking off some of the casing while the fans are spinning to check but they sound *or don't sound* fine. I'll deal with the noise for now and if anything gets worse I'll contact PCSpecialist.