Running an evga 260 216c Superclocked (65nm) on its factory OC - it's idle at around 70C with 40% fan. When I use the default fan profile, very intensive games like Crysis or Bioshock will bring the GPU temp upwards of 85-86C. Right now I used Rivatuner to set a more aggressive fan profile so I stay around 80 even at the highest load, but that's at 100% fan. From what I've read of other people's experiences, these temps seem pretty high. I'm running a Q6600 @3.2 on a UD3P with 4gb of mushkin ddr2-8500 in an antec p182. I thought maybe my airflow was the problem but when I removed the side panel, the card dropped the same amount of degrees (about 6C) that all my other parts dropped and still idled around 63-64C at 40% fan. Also, my HD's and CPU barely go above 40C on idle. Does this sound like it's within the range of this card or should I consider an RMA? Also, is there any other way I can improve the cooling specifically for the card?
that is very high, but then, it's superclocked. what is your factory clock speed? i have same case but still only get maximum of around 75c, and idle at around 55c. have you got a fan in the mid-drive cage? blowing at the GPU?
The reference speeds on the 260 are 576/1242/2000 I believe. This card came with a factory OC of 626/1350/2106 and I haven't touched it because it's served me well. And yes, I do have a fan blowing from the mid-cage. Five out of the six available 120mm fan slots are used - the only one unused is the intake in front of the lower drive cage. I also tried removing the mid-cage but it didn't change much so I placed it back in.
well, i have got a 92mm fan in the mid-drive cage like so may be that helps?? also, those clocks are slower than my BFG OC2, so if it's not the airflow problem, i have no idea.
Hm my mid-drive cage is set on the other side of the cage, farther away from the gpu. Maybe I'll try moving it closer. Appreciate the advice. Anyone else have experience with this?
Well, my 260-216 is running at 648/1512/2520 and with the fan on 92%, it hovers at 67-68c. This is when it's folding proteins really quite quickly. That's the only comparison I can draw off the top of my head atm. Strangely, I can run it with the fan at around 72% whilst playing, e.g. Fallout3 for hours on end (not sure on the temp though). Once the fan's into the 60% range, the small amount of noise it gives off is incomparable to 4 x 120mm fans running at low speeds. In other words, I can start to hear my hard drives chattering.
Meant to say my mid-drive *fan is on the other side of the cage. There's not enough room for me to move it to the near-gpu side so I might try what you're doing there, wuyanxu. How are you keeping that 92mm in place? And kenco, just as reference, at 40% fan, I'm idling at your load temps right now. I just don't get it. It's not that big a deal I guess because supposedly the chip can run pretty hot but it's just me nitpicking.
I got my machine back last night after motherboard and vga blew from lightning I replaced my 8800gtssc with a GTX260 216 65nm also evga card but standard My case is pretty small and crap so i prob have bad airflow but my temp is about 50 degree at idle with a fan speed of 40% And it peaked at 71 degree's when I played COD WAW last night as a test This is the standard card but bear in mind its high summer hear so my outside air temp is almost 30 so my machine is running at its hottest CPU idle temp with arctic freezer pro is 48 degrees those temps just seem a bit hot but i only had yesterday to test so I am no authority but those are my temps from a standard card My 8800GT ssc ran about the same temps as the 260 maybe hit 75 when gaming I am only using a 22inch LCD but cant say I see any diff in my COD4 between the 2 cards I really liked my old 8800 it was a magic card When researching the cards info I got from the evga forums was that the 65nm card in actual use ran cooler than the new 55nm they said the 55nm although it generated less heat the cooler was not the same or as good as the cooling on the 65nm card so they were all getting lower temps with the 65nm cards Cheers Nigel
I've got a 260 216 at stock clocks in my antec P180, I've added a front fan in the mount next to the drive bay (the 180 didn't come with one as standard) but other than that I only have the standard cooling setup. My card idles at around 46 (22 degrees ambient) and has hit 79 degrees fully loaded having been folding for several hours and doing video encoding on my cpu (read fully heating all the components and the case. Even with an overclock i can't see why you'd be idling in the 70s. My fan is running the default profile and is at 40% when idle and at 78 degrees is currently around the 50% mark. EDIT: Forgot to mention all my fans are on either low or medium.
in that case, seems like a busted card, if tank_rider can have such low idle temperature without a fan blowing at the GPU. i think you should RMA/send it back for an exchange
I'd definitely give EVGA a call or email and ask them. It does seem strange that the card runs so hot, yet the fan doesn't spin up as well. When the temps on mine get over 70 the fan spins up a bit to about 50%, never had it go over that though. I might have a play with clocking mine up to the speeds yours is at later and see what that does to my temps.
I think before I call evga I might try to open it up and see if there's a lot of dust or something. Might even try reseating the heatsink with arctic silver. Has anyone done that with the 260's before?
The trouble with removing the heatsink and reseating it is that usually voids your warranty! So I'd check for dust etc, then go down the warranty route.
That's a good point, tank_rider. I will blow some air into the vents and fan and see if that changes. I also read something interesting and hadn't thought of - vista's aero and having dual monitors keeps the card on 3d mode all the time whereas without aero and a single monitor it should downclock to 2d mode on idle. When I get back tonight I'm going to disable all that and run with one monitor and see if it goes down to a more reasonable range. I still might try to stick a 92mm or a 100mm in the middle drive cage next to the card like wuyanxu did.
yes, I do it with all my cards.. actually wrote a guide on it for both the 9800gtx and the gtx260 on evga (early adopter of both)- you gotta be careful with the memory pads though.. found it's best to do it right when it comes brand new from the vendor- the pads should stay in perfect condition I had to realign a couple on the 260- they were put on sloppy, some were'nt centered and not even touching parts of the ram.. the tim job is always horrible on nvidia cards.. I dunno who they have squirting tim on at foxconn.. but they are retarded- it looks like a little kid busted out some playdough (I use mx-2 on both of these cards because of the way the chip is made- you wouldn't want to get as-5 all over the place unlike the old 8800gtx which was completely covered) next I stick a 92mm silverstone on a fan controller over the mouth of the air intake on the gtx260.. adjust for noise.. you'll want good side and front intakes down by the card itself to help keep it cool- 120mm fans work best there with the least amount of noise without a fan controller (or buy those overpriced 80's for low noise) finally I use NiBiTor to flash in my idle (2D) fan speed (55% is pretty good) and stable clocks.. on mine happens to be 783/1566/2104 at 1.8v.. my temps idle after everything is running a day or two is 44C at 26C ambient.. but it never loads above 60C, even in crysis during the summer when the temps here get crazy hot.. at these clocks, it beats out a mildly overclocked 280 in vantage (gpu score) and that's with the 192 shader version.. mainly why I believe the gtx280 is overpriced- with all those extra shaders and larger bus, it should be untouchable but it's not I actually love video card overclocking.. on my old 9800gtx I used to game at 820 on the core with stock voltage.. you don't void your warranty with evga btw by taking off the cooler and redoing the tim- but when you flash it, they consider that a void warranty.. I only flash them after I run a couple months to make sure it's good.. stock voltage using software to oc- my 260 does 741/1522/2104 gaming stable.. at 1.8v on the core, I could probably do more than 800.. just no point in pushing it anymore, no game I play, even crysis/warhead with this single card setup is unplayable at 1080p the nice thing is I don't have to deal with sli (which despite all the raving.. sucks big on new releases, you have a brick sitting in your rig sucking money out your pocket, if I played old games though sli would be fine (even though still a waste imo.. all that power wasted at idle.. plus they seem to perfect the driver 2-3 months after a new release and by then I could care less about a game, usually already beat it )
aero by itself shouldn't kick the clocks up.. it was fixed in the 178.83 drivers and up (I believe the 42's were'nt bad either good iq on those too)- sometimes add-ons in your browser will trigger the 3d clocks (like piclens does it).. I think nvidias image quality sucks in some of thier betas.. but I could go on and on about that- try a newer driver 178.83 and up- check the plugin's you use in your browser)
Just wanted to update for future reference. I resolved the issue by suspending a 92mm (similar to wuyanxu) inside the middle drive cage and also removing the air filter inside the door. I'm now idling at around 60C and load at 72C. Thanks for the help guys.
If its anyhelp i have a GTX 260 clocked at 700/1450/2200 and my fan never seems to get above 60% on a hot day or in a heated room, at ideal its 53c with a fan at around 40% i use EVGAs precision turning software as its simple does the trick and works really well and is the most stable i have seen. I think u may need to RMA yours
that's still a little bit too high. you really should RMA it. how hot is your room? or, what's your hard drive temperature? P182 have a very good HDD temperature, i usually use it and take away 15 to tell my room temperature.
Wuyanxu did you notice increase in temps with you mch and ich with the card? I have noticed when gaming that it now really heats up more than before as does my motherboard temps I think it (mch)is now sandwiched between the artic freeezer pro and the card that with my small case the airflow is not good enough to maintain the board temps I had with the standard intel cooler and the 8800 I am now running my cpu fan at 3000 rpm to keep the temps down got a cpu idle of 45 and 47 54 and 67 for the board ich and mch respectivley. I am going to swop system into a cm690 case this weekend to see what diff a decent sized case with decent fan set up makes to my overall temps hot SA summers dont like air!! Will be interesting to see comparison between 2 cases
