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post #1 of 5
10/5/12 at 4:37pm
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I have an EVGA GTX 560 Ti & I'm wondering if I should RMA it or not. Here are some details about it & some tests I've done:

- The room I have it in stays around 25C (77F).
- The case is pretty big and has a lot of open space inside.
- Cable management is good & nothing is blocking airflow.
- I reapplied thermal compound to the heatsink of the gpu (the mount is done correctly).
- The case has three 120mm fans.
1. Intake fan -> bottom front
2. Exhaust fan -> top back
3. Psu fan -> bottom

Temperatures:
- Idle 34C-38C
- Heavy load peaks around 90C-94C

Additional details:
- Nothing is OC'd.
- Everything is clean and dust free.

Tests:
I've tested with and without the side pannel off and had a large house fan blowing air directly into the chassis while playing Skyrim on high settings.

Test details - Stock gpu fan 70%, case fans 90%:
With side pannel attached it runs around 84C most the time during gameplay (74C minimum & 92C peak).
With large fan blowing into open chassis - 79C most the time during gameplay (70C minimum & 88C peak).

Any ideas? Even with a big fan blowing directly on the open chassis, it almost reached 90C and my fan speeds seem very high to only maintain degrees in the 80's.
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post #2 of 5
10/5/12 at 4:42pm
Stock fan profile sucks balls. Use Afterburner to make a more aggressive fan profile. My son's ti did 88C when on stock. Now it does 81-82C max with a more aggressive profile. His fan runs 80%+ when reaching these temps.
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post #3 of 5
10/5/12 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by flopticalcube View Post

Stock fan profile sucks balls. Use Afterburner to make a more aggressive fan profile. My son's ti did 88C when on stock. Now it does 81-82C max with a more aggressive profile. His fan runs 80%+ when reaching these temps.

So it's normal to reach the 80's? I've seen several claims of people with the same card that stay under 70C even at peak with no higher than 65% fan speed and not much different from my setup. The fan sounds like a jet engine above 70% so I'm hoping there's another option.
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post #4 of 5
10/5/12 at 5:38pm
I have two 560ti's between my two sons and they both hit the 80's under load, the cases are small however. It could simply be luck of the draw for us and they probably were assembled on a Friday (do they have Saturday off in China?). You could reseat the GPU and apply some new thermal paste or do some aftermarket cooling like I will be doing, hopefully tomorrow.
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OCZ Agility 3 128GB SSD Hitachi 5K3000 2TB Toshiba TS-TB23L BD-ROM Slot drive Scythe Shuriken Rev.B 
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Enermax T.B.Silent 120mm fan Antec 620 H2O Stock Silverstone 120mm "Golf Ball Blade" fan Zalman Ultra Quiet 80mm fan 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 HP 64-bit Samsung 21.5" LED Generic garbage Silverstone ST45SF V2 450W SFF 
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Silverstone SG05B-450 CM Sentinel $ store Samson SR850 headphones 
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Hard DriveOptical DriveCoolingOS
320GB Seagate Momentus 7200.3 OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5670S Apple fan/heatsink Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) 
MonitorKeyboardPowerCase
2X Dell E2211H Apple Wireless External 100W power brick Apple Mac mini 
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i5-2500K Gigabyte GA-H67N-USB3-B3 EVGA GTX560ti SC G.Skill Sniper 2X4GB 1333MHz 
Hard DriveHard DriveOptical DriveCooling
OCZ Agility 3 128GB SSD Hitachi 5K3000 2TB Toshiba TS-TB23L BD-ROM Slot drive Scythe Shuriken Rev.B 
CoolingCoolingCoolingCooling
Enermax T.B.Silent 120mm fan Antec 620 H2O Stock Silverstone 120mm "Golf Ball Blade" fan Zalman Ultra Quiet 80mm fan 
OSMonitorKeyboardPower
Windows 7 HP 64-bit Samsung 21.5" LED Generic garbage Silverstone ST45SF V2 450W SFF 
CaseMouseMouse PadAudio
Silverstone SG05B-450 CM Sentinel $ store Samson SR850 headphones 
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post #5 of 5
10/16/12 at 2:27pm
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It ended up being an overheating flaw in the card. My new one never reaches temperatures above 70C at fan speeds around 55%.
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