I did notice some coil whine after doing so but I have no way of knowing whether or not the whine started because of the change or not. One other thing that I did, and if you choose to do the same you do so at your own risk, is I changed the thermal paste on the card. IF your card were to still get to 67✬+ with this curve then the fans would be going at about 85% of their max speed, close to 2700 RPM I think, and therefore cool the card to where the fans could slow down.
This is the fan curve that I use and it's universal for whatever program you might use, this is Argus Monitor. I added some reviews and what I forgot to mention about the boost clocks in the original post. So personally I guess that if there's actually a problem is either a faulty heatsink (some manufacture failure), lack of thermal paste or improperly applied, or faulty heatsink's retention. But I had to see if they were properly adjusted.and they were! I could barely move 2 of them. Now I tried to squeez the 3 remaining screws, you know that 1 is covered with the warranty sticker, and I know this is not recommended due to asymmetrical pressure. Also, the heatsing doesn't touch the rams. I did said pressing but actually only by touching gently from below is enough to lower the temperature, which is incredible to me. The Strix was also attached by 4 screws.as most other modern cards I had.and no sagging, no flexing, no moving. Listen, my Asus 970 Strix OC never went beyond 75✬, and probably was lower before I changed the paste (from original to MX2) But, will see when I decide to use the card in one of those hot days.
Especially this one that is known to be very good at staying "cool" (which takes me here asking) and especially given I had videocards that consumed more with worse cooling and no problem. Still, the videocard is supposed to work at higher temperatures. I did test when the temperature went down. I still never tested it in hot summer, simply because it gets too hot here and didn't wanted to suffer more heat by testing this (not the card, but me). And only few minutes at a time (from 5 to 20). Now, what's the point of Furmark? That's how/why I'm using it. Is there anyone with the same card model that could verify my observations,? Or is my card dying? Possibly wrongly assembled?Ĭlick to expand.Gaming temps are another issue because gaming gives a variable load so it goes fro fine to bad, but of course still lower than furmark. Like a cheap delicate toy.Īlso I noticed when first used it the card was boosting beyond 1900Mhz for all the gaming sesion, even getting to 2000Mhz at the beggining, then, still cold days, 1875Mhz is the faster I saw, and 1830-1850 are the normal numbers.Now it still do the same but with way higher RPMs. And sicerely the card feels filmsy and all parts move when touching them. So while room temperatures went higher, the card didn't increase temperatures proportionally and accordingly, but actually it looks like it's getting terrible with time.Īlso I noticed that pressing the backplate from the backplate and shroud the tempreature decrease significantly, today from 76✬ with open case to 67✬. Today with around 27✬ room temperature: 77✬ and more than 2200RPM (don't remember, probably up to 2500RPM). More recently, still with low temperatures, but just a bit higher (less than 5✬ more) I noticed 73✬ and 1700RPM or more. With low room temperatures, bit less than 20✬ my card got to around the expected 67✬ with furmark and around 1500RPM I bought this MSi GTX 1660 Super Gaming X 2 months ago, which means, here in the south that it was cold in winter.
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