Few days ago I set my computer's power settings to turn the monitor off after 5 minutes because I try to avoid using the off/on switch and prefer to do it with "software".
Then I left the house for an hour, maybe an hour and half. When I got back, the monitor wouldn't turn on and my GPU's fans were running at 100% speed.
I have my HD 7850's fan profile set as linear curve that gets more aggressive as it passes 60 °C.
In other words, fan speed is 30% for 0-30 °C, rises linearly 30-60% for 30-60 °C and from there it rises linearly 60-100% for 60-80 °C and above.
I had no idea why it was running that fast and that really scared me, as if GPU got seriously hot from overvolting or something, but I couldn't see what was going on because monitor was off. I restarted the computer and everything was perfectly fine.
The only thing that it was running at that time was uTorrent I think.
Now I'm afraid to leave my computer unattended for longer periods of time. What happened and should I worry?
Bonus question: What does it mean when GPU usage in game (Deus Ex: Human Resolution) doesn't go over 50-60% and the game feels like it could definitely use some additional FPS? It wasn't bottlenecked by CPU because its usage was even lower (2500K @ 4.3 GHz).
Edited by kazzjohnson - 7/5/12 at 5:10am
Then I left the house for an hour, maybe an hour and half. When I got back, the monitor wouldn't turn on and my GPU's fans were running at 100% speed.
I have my HD 7850's fan profile set as linear curve that gets more aggressive as it passes 60 °C.
In other words, fan speed is 30% for 0-30 °C, rises linearly 30-60% for 30-60 °C and from there it rises linearly 60-100% for 60-80 °C and above.
I had no idea why it was running that fast and that really scared me, as if GPU got seriously hot from overvolting or something, but I couldn't see what was going on because monitor was off. I restarted the computer and everything was perfectly fine.
The only thing that it was running at that time was uTorrent I think.
Now I'm afraid to leave my computer unattended for longer periods of time. What happened and should I worry?
Bonus question: What does it mean when GPU usage in game (Deus Ex: Human Resolution) doesn't go over 50-60% and the game feels like it could definitely use some additional FPS? It wasn't bottlenecked by CPU because its usage was even lower (2500K @ 4.3 GHz).
Edited by kazzjohnson - 7/5/12 at 5:10am
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