Overheating and similar issues with GeForce GTX 280

[that one guy]

^ what brand and cooling are you using on that 280?

[Monnie Rock]

^ what brand and cooling are you using on that 280?

That One Guy,

EVGA GeForce GTX 280 SSC, Part Number: 01G-P3-1284-AR, Stock cooling :D Great product.

Thank you,
Monnie

[wysiwyg]

im nervous now

i have an EVGA SSC 280 being delivered today from OcUK

i had enough of my 3rd RMA'd BFG GT OC2 locking up if ran slightly over its default clocks despite all my cooling, so am now worried the new EVGA 280 will be a headache too at its SSC clocks

no new PSU ordered either so hope mine copes

[that one guy]

That One Guy,

EVGA GeForce GTX 280 SSC, Part Number: 01G-P3-1284-AR, Stock cooling :D Great product.

Thank you,
Monnie

thats really cool running in FurMark. Ive never seen a stock cooled GTX 280 only reach 65'C at 5 minutes in FurMark. mine gets to 93'c and all the reviews sites that ive seen who used FurMark were getting 85-95.

[Monnie Rock]

thats really cool running in FurMark. Ive never seen a stock cooled GTX 280 only reach 65'C at 5 minutes in FurMark. mine gets to 93'c and all the reviews sites that ive seen who used FurMark were getting 85-95.

That One Guy,

I did have the fan running at 100% manual. Also, I keep my house about 23C


Thank you,
Monnie

[Morrow]

I just got a brand new GTX280 SC and I have a few questions for our specialists here :)

1. My GPU temperature increases to around 105°C when running FurMark for 3-5 minutes with fanspeed set to 40%. The temperature does not increase above 82°C with fanspeed set to 100%... Does this sound like a faulty GTX 280 or not? (No artifacts noticed / 1600x1200x8AA).

2. Furmark runs perfectly fine in benchmark mode however when starting the stability mode using the same settings like for benchmarking, the 3d output is complete garbage, even with a "cold" (45°C) GTX 280. Known bug in Furmark?

3. Should the latest Forceware drivers (like 180.84) autothrottle the GPU fanspeed according to the actual GPU temperature or is the speed fixed at the setting defined in the nvidia control panel?

[sonyxxx]

hy guys, just wondering if 50C idle and around 87C with furmark( the fan o the card is really loud), are this temps ok, i just mounted a 12cm fan in front of the card ( i have a antec 1200 case and has a slot right in front of where the videocard goes), i installed this fan because yesterday my card was at 95C while playing WoW all details to high , it was kinda hot in the house ( dont know the temp, but it was hott) , i have a asus gtx280 factory OC version, are this temps normal?, oh and furmak was on for 5mins with no AA

[DeadLine]

Hello all, reading this sounds very familiar with my problem i had.
Bought a PoV Geforce GTX 280 a couple of days ago, installing etc all was going fine till i played FC2 online and my 280 GTX maked a hell of an noise like someone breathed for air in a extreme way.
Figured out that my card temp was around 120C and then my screen got black, sended back to the store where i bought it and got a new one.
Well this one did got the same problems aswell, sended back again and got another one.
This one was finally the good one, normal temps atm 45C and stressed around 70C and no problems anymore so im a very happy man.

[DeadLine]

Hello all, reading this sounds very familiar with my problem i had.
Bought a PoV Geforce GTX 280 a couple of days ago, installing etc all was going fine till i played FC2 online and my 280 GTX maked a hell of an noise like someone breathed for air in a extreme way.
Figured out that my card temp was around 120C and then my screen got black, sended back to the store where i bought it and got a new one.
Well this one did got the same problems aswell, sended back again and got another one.
This one was finally the good one, normal temps atm 45C and stressed around 70C and no problems anymore so im a very happy man.

[Bah!]

That was me! ;)

My Point of View GTX280 was running fine for a week and then yesterday, during playing Age of Conan, the card was getting louder and hotter. The temperature raised quickly from 72° celsius to 98° with the fan at 100%. And i looked on my voltmeter and i was SHOCKED. 320W was normal (cause i have 1.03v on the GPU) and now i saw 500W on the vm.
So i stopped plaing AoC and the fan was still on 100% in idle at ~70° and ~200W.

Than i started Furmark to get the card to the limit. My GTX280 raised in only 10 seconds from 70° to 90° and in 15 second over 100° (fan 100%). My voltmeter shows 550W (300W is normal in Age of Conan)!! :thumbdwn: About 250W more ingame - WTF??!!
Only a restart solved the problem, since then i havent got the problem anymore, but for how long?

Hope its a driver/bios thing, which can be solved, because it has nothing to do with the cooler or the ihs! Maybe the psu? I dont know.

Nvidia, i payed 789.96 US Dollar (500€) for the card, i want an answer!


Was there ever a fix for this besides returning the card? I just got a 260 SSC card last week and it's been running great, 45c idle and about 72-74c while running Crysis or any other game. The fan never kicks up from 40% while playing games.

Last night i came home, jumped on AoC, and about 5 minutes in i started hearing the blowdryer kick in. I checked my temps and i was at 95c and 100% fan speed. I rebooted the computer and temps went back to normal, i ran the game again and never got above 71c.

Later on i was playing Crysis, alt-tabbed out, and the fan shot up to 100% and my temps went into the 90's again at 100% fan speed, even though before that i played for a few hours and never hit 75c at 40% fan speed. I can repeat this behavior over and over again by either alt-tabbing out of a game multiple times or using alt-enter to go from full-screen to windowed mode.

Now if this was an actual heat issue the card would always run that hot, right? Seems to me like a driver issue or something. I'm running Atitool as i type and have been for like 15 minutes and sit at 74c so the heatsink and fan are doing their job. What else could make running the same thing at the same fan speeds be 30c difference in temperature?

[john19055]

I have three BFG GTX 280 and at 1920x1200 my first card never goes beyond 71c with the fan set at 65%,with FurMark and my cards is just clocked at 665/1458/2400