But then I'm worried that having for example a constant 40% fixed speed might make it too cold since the games won't be raising the temperature of the GPU. But just because the PCB doesn't need cooling, it doesn't mean other components on the GPU wouldn't benefit from the added airflow (like the VRMs and the VRAM). As I said first, 38 degrees was the max it rose to yesterday without the fans even cooling it. I don't think it's good for the GPU to go a whole winter and spring of constant gaming sessions without the fans ever switching on? At the same time I don't want to make it too cold (that statement I posted in the first post about if it's too cold coils could become brittle worries me), retro shmups being very old games don't push the graphic card at all, so while gaming the temperature barely moves. The problem is, in winter and currently in spring, when gaming I'm not hitting the 40 degree start I had set, so I was thinking of either making the fans start at a lower temperature, or use a fixed speed while gaming.
It's working fine when I'm testing it out on FurMark and other benching software, or when it's summer. I already have a custom fan curve set up in ThunderMaster (it's Palit's equivalent of Afterburner), I had set it last summer so the fans start at 30% at 40 degrees and starts escalating the more the temperature rises (I don't like the default setting where fans do not switch on until 60 degrees). Thanks in advance gurus Looking forward to you wisdom. So my question is, what do you guys recommend setting the fixed fan speed to? Need to find a balance so it doesn't get too cold to avoid the issue as stated above, but also enough to give some good cooling to other components on the GPU. (I use ThunderMaster, it's Palit's GPU monitoring software)ĭoing some research on this, I read: 'running it (the fans) at 100% all the time will cool it down to the point where it will actually start making the magnetic coils inside brittle from just being too cold, therefore damaging them and reducing electricity flow through them.' ( ) This is worrying me because there are other components that might need cooling like the VRMs or memory, so I was thinking of switching the fans to a fixed speed while I'm gaming, and switching back to the default fan curve for other use. After an hour and a half of gaming yesterday GPU temp was 38 degrees, the fans didn't even kick in once in the whole hour and a half. I have a GTX 980 Ti Palit Jetstream, and I only play retro shmups/STGs (some even date back to 1996), these are very limited games when it comes to graphics, so my 980 Ti is barely feeling the load from them, and staying at very low temps, so low to a point that the fans NEVER kick in in a whole gaming session. Here's something that's been bugging me for a while.
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