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Recently my graphics card went bye bye. In January 2015 I got the new computer so it's not even four years old. The card was a new Nvidia GTX 980 Asus Strix edition. Generally speaking, how log to graphic card last... in you own experiences? Does your basic rail sims take a hard toll on graphics cards?

I've had them last 4-5 years but recently had a Nvidia card go out after about 2 1/2 years.

So I guess you kind of roll the dice when getting a gaming computer? I'm waiting to hear from the manufacturer Digital Storm to see what they have to say about my card. I seen on line that the fans of this particular card don't turn on until it hits 67 C. The local computer shop guy says that is way to hot...no wonder the card doesn't last!

Riptrack59 wrote:So I guess you kind of roll the dice when getting a gaming computer? I'm waiting to hear from the manufacturer Digital Storm to see what they have to say about my card. I seen on line that the fans of this particular card don't turn on until it hits 67 C. The local computer shop guy says that is way too hot...no wonder the card doesn't last!

That is way hotter than my 1060 is running. I'm usually between 45C and max about 50C.

buzz456 wrote:

Riptrack59 wrote:So I guess you kind of roll the dice when getting a gaming computer? I'm waiting to hear from the manufacturer Digital Storm to see what they have to say about my card. I seen on line that the fans of this particular card don't turn on until it hits 67 C. The local computer shop guy says that is way too hot...no wonder the card doesn't last!

That is way hotter than my 1060 is running. I'm usually between 45C and max about 50C.

It could be that the information that I got on line is just plain wrong. I do know that the fans would only come on at the start and when shutting down. That might of been some of the problem. The graphics card itself looks brand new. No dust or anything! I ran my computer for about an hour today. I checked in the bois settings afterwards and the motherboard was reading a temp of 29c while the CPU was reading 30C. I don't really think this was a heat issue.

The temperature your mother board if running and the temp of the GPU often have little to do with each other. Since the CPU is sitting on the mo board they are usually pretty close to the same.

buzz456 wrote:The temperature your mother board if running and the temp of the GPU often have little to do with each other. Since the CPU is sitting on the mo board they are usually pretty close to the same.

My system's fans blow on the motherboard and the GPU. That is the only reason I mention it.

Check this out. Freeware.
https://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

buzz456 wrote:Check this out. Freeware.
https://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/

Thanks. I'll set that up when I get my new card. I'm kind of curious now on what my computer is doing.

My NVIDIA ASUS 1060 6 GB has a custom fan setting to set the speed vs temperature. You might see if your new card has the same.

When I bought my graphics card about 18 months ago, I was given Zotac Firestorm on disc to install at the same time, which is very good at viewing your GPU temperature, and doing a few other things. When I get to about 64 degrees then I can hear the fans start to work, I don't think I've ever had a temperature over 70 degrees yet, with any PC game I play, so, if you go above that then you need to monitor things closely.
I think you can download a free version on here, of course, there may be other similar tools that do the same function on the world wide webby internet thingy, I have no absolutely no association with these people whatsoever, commercially, or, as a customer, if it blows your machine up, don't blame me.......

https://www.vedantcomputers.com/blog/fi ... y-by-zotac

Cheerz. Steve.

This is what it looks like when you view your installation, it's quite in depth, you can play around with the settings to your heart's content.

AmericanSteam wrote:My NVIDIA ASUS 1060 6 GB has a custom fan setting to set the speed vs temperature. You might see if your new card has the same.

Interesting that you mention that card...that is the new card that I got. It about half the size of the last card. I figured that I should make a clean install of everything before I get back to route building.

Riptrack59 wrote:I seen on line that the fans of this particular card don't turn on until it hits 67 C. The local computer shop guy says that is way to hot...no wonder the card doesn't last!

That's normal these days. My MSI GTX 970 doesn't spin the fans if the card hasn't reached 60 degrees. And even with heavy 3D load the temperature is between 70 and 75 and the card is still silent
The older cards I used years ago got much hotter and made lot's of noise (and are by the way still working) so the temperature isn't a problem.

AmericanSteam wrote:My NVIDIA ASUS 1060 6 GB has a custom fan setting to set the speed vs temperature. You might see if your new card has the same.

Every card should have this. As hotter the card gets the higher the fan spins. But you can still modify the fan settings with tools like Zotak Firesorm or MSI Afterburner (which works also on non MSI cards) if you want.

Get Asus GPU Tweak 2 designed for Asus Graphics Cards. Monitors Fan speeds temperature etc. Can also overclock your card with it. This utility should come on your Asus graphics card driver DVD. If not download it from here. http://m.majorgeeks.com/files/details/a ... tweak.html