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[SortaSane]

As a follow-up, I took a closer look at my card and found out my main problem was just age. The heatsink had accumulated a lot of dust over the years and the thermal paste had practically dried out, so I did some cleaning and replaced the paste. So far the card is handling MWO just fine without showing signs of damage from overheating earlier.

Interestingly, I've been keeping my diagnostic tools open as I played and idling in the Mechlab definitely appears to cause a rise in GPU activity and temperature. In my case that was just the straw that broke the camel's back, not a crippling problem by itself, but still more than I would expect from what should be a backdrop for our mechs.

[Odins Fist]

Kendricke, on 04 May 2014 - 08:00 PM, said:

Similar issue. GTX590 with aggressive fan profile and additional cooling.

Prior to April patches, rarely had an issue with MWO. Card tends to run hot (idles around 50C), but never more than ~75C with maxed settings in most games running at 1080. I'm running latest drivers.
Now, just idling in Mechlab will heat the card up to around 100C before it starts to throttle out

GTX 590 is a dual GPU card, they get hot.. My buddy with an ATI/AMD 6990 dual GPU card has it on water, that made all the difference in the world for him.

SortaSane, on 05 May 2014 - 03:21 PM, said:

As a follow-up, I took a closer look at my card and found out my main problem was just age. The heatsink had accumulated a lot of dust over the years and the thermal paste had practically dried out...

Every 90 days you should use a can of air in your system to get the dust bunnies out.
I only had to replace the thermal paste on a couple of old GTX 260-216 cores, one time during their life, it seemed to help a little.

Edited by Odins Fist, 08 May 2014 - 12:47 PM.