What are your temps?

Originally posted by emoticorpse:

What are your temps?

Anywhere from 78° - 98° @ 1440p.
3080 Ti F.E.

My GPU fans increase speed 10% every 10°C after 20°C, never seen it go past 70% unless forced. That is when the GPU fans sound like a jet engine ready for take-off.

The CPU fans are always at 100% but the case fans are PWM with varying speeds. The CPU main fans (120mm) have very low Db (Noctua) at full speed.

Now that rear exhaust fan (Noctua Industrial 3000RPM) when it hits past 80%, will sound louder but nothing compared to the GPU fans at the same speed.

Give me a water cooler for the GPU is all I ask, similar to the AMD Vega series.

Mid-towers cause more heat, so this is one reason I suggest full tower "honeycomb" cases.

Fans are the solution to the problem of PC cooling, even with water cooling. Unless you want to get really exotic and have a better answer, then this is the current solution that has been used and working for decades.

Fans often result in noise. That's a reality of physics. They will be quieter if they are running at lower RPM. They will generally speed up to a higher RPM if the device they are designed to cool is getting warmer. So fan noise will have nothing to do with the frame rate. You're probably making that assumption because getting 70 FPS in whatever game(s) and settings you're playing in/at puts the graphics card under a higher load that causes it to get warm enough to need the fans to become more active.

For nVidia, 78C is fine, but 98C sounds too hot to me. But I don't know if you're giving core temperature, hot spot temperature, or VRAM temperature. For the latter two, 98C wouldn't be quite as bad (although still warm) as those are generally rated to 110C I believe, but if that's the general core temperature, then it's seems dangerously high.

By default, ~84C is where nVidia graphics card will more aggressively try and prevent the graphics card from going warmer (via higher fan speeds and less aggressive boosting) so below that is fine. Around that point it becomes "watch it" and make sure it doesn't go much higher easily. If it starts getting into the upper 80C range, you need to act. I believe it's generally in the 90C range (something even upper 80C range) that most nVidia GPUs are at a critical temperature (possibly even shutoff), and that exact temperature varies a bit from GPU to GPU and isn't always easy to find.

Try leaving the side panel off, and see if that reduces temps or not. If it does, might be time to:

- look at the GPU fan possibly failing / replace
- adding a side or bottom panel case fan

Bigger fans = larger air circulation, more airflow CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute), mid-towers are notorious for being very hot inside the case: 1) smaller, tighter form factor, 2) smaller fans.

Then you have smaller fans spinning faster than larger fans which could increase the Db.