Downclocking my GPU

[zed]

I think maybe cause its summer and its hotter but the fan on my GPU is very annoying, it speeds up and slows down constantly (prolly due to me usually only using it for maybe 30 secs at a time during testing)

Its a nvidia GPU, is there an easy way to tell it don't go all the way to 100% but just to may 80% or so, which is plenty fast enuf for what I do.

I have to do the same with my intel NUC, i.e. limit the CPU to 75% as otherwise it sounds like a vacuum cleaner (stay away from NUCs, doing nothing it runs at 65 degrees)
cheers zed

 

[pcchen]

Newer versions of MSI Afterburner seems to have a fan speed curve function, I haven't personally used it though.

 

[Malo]

Have you cleaned the fans and heatsinks recently? A simple can of air might be all it needs?

 

[orangpelupa]

yep msi afterburner should work. even if the fan curve is disabled, you still can lower the max allowed temperature.

btw some GPU have noisy fan shrouding instead of the fan itself. On mine, I jammed some thick foam-like double tape to various gaps on the shroud.

 

[pcchen]

btw some GPU have noisy fan shrouding instead of the fan itself. On mine, I jammed some thick foam-like double tape to various gaps on the shroud.

That's a possibility. I recently got a new PC with 5800X CPU, which comes with a cheap 'water cooling' kit. It's quite fine until the fans go into high speed, which produces a rattling noise. I suspected it's a fan problem and tried to use some lubricants into the fans' axles, but it didn't work. Then I found out that the noise is actually from the huge fin grid of the water cooling kit. It's not very rigid so when the fans are in high RPM, it vibrates and caused the noise. There's really no good way to avoid it, so I opt to using the motherboard's tool to set a fan curve below 100% (the noise is only audible above 90% RPM), and now it largely noise free and the CPU temperature is still fine, as the water cooling kit is more than enough for cooling the CPU.

 

[zed]

Thanks I opened the case about a month ago, looked surprisingly clean.
Ta pcchen, Im running MSI afterburner now, seems to be quite simple just drag the core & memory slider values down and press OK.
Related is there a program than pins to startbar (widget) that displays CPU/GPU temps, fan speeds etc, i.e. its annoying running a fullscreen app, and then to see the GPU/CPU temps I have to click on another program, I prefer just press windows key

 

[orangpelupa]

msi afterburner can do that thru RTSS settings IIRC