What minimum fan speed do you set your GPU rigs to?

[klintistwood]

wow 60-70°C for a GPU, seems very hot. Has anyone ran such temperature for more than a year? I keep my GPUs around 50°C (or even lower in some cases) with a fan set to 50%.

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[beskid]

The minimum speed of rotation of coolers on my Asus 1060 6gb video cards is 10% in winter (at an ambient temperature of 0 degrees) and 50-60% in summer (at an ambient temperature of 30 degrees). Cards after Undervolting.The temperature of the cards themselves does not exceed 65 degrees.

[MajMongoose]

been running my fans at 70% - cards stay around 50-55 (rx560's)

[coinzoid]

I'm using TDP 65%, fan auto and my Gigabyte Xtreme 1080ti water cooled runs at 39C. Evga branded gpus FTW3 goes between 60C-63C with auto setting.

[dalsoft]

Better to target temperature rather than fan %. Under 70°C is recommended, personally I have all my cards target 66°C which is easy to achieve in most cases.

Depending how your cards sit some fans will run at 35% some at 80%, but fans are cheaper to replace than silicon, so don't worry if they are at a higher percentage on your rig.

For AMD I use  OverdriveNTool to set a target temperature.

[QuintLeo]

wow 60-70°C for a GPU, seems very hot. Has anyone ran such temperature for more than a year? I keep my GPUs around 50°C (or even lower in some cases) with a fan set to 50%.

I've had many GPUs survive 4+ years of high-load usage running in the 70-75C range.
Targeting 50C is WAY excessive, and the only cases of 50C GPU temps with 50% or less fan I've ever had were on gear in an A/C room on risers, or the "outside" card in a "no case" rig with all cards on the MB, or a rig with ONE card in it - and the card was set to run at "efficient" settings.

Water cooled/hybrid is another story, water cooling the GPU is a lot better at keeping the temp down - at a significant cost for the higher-end cooling solution.

[klintistwood]

I've had many GPUs survive 4+ years of high-load usage running in the 70-75C range.
Targeting 50C is WAY excessive, and the only cases of 50C GPU temps with 50% or less fan I've ever had were on gear in an A/C room on risers, or the "outside" card in a "no case" rig with all cards on the MB, or a rig with ONE card in it - and the card was set to run at "efficient" settings.

Water cooled/hybrid is another story, water cooling the GPU is a lot better at keeping the temp down - at a significant cost for the higher-end cooling solution.

Were those AMD or Nvidia cards? I wanted to be on the safe side with 50°C but as it doesn't affect performance, it can't be a bad thing.

[QuintLeo]

All of my 4+ year old cards are AMD, the oldest NVidia cards I have are "only" about 2 years old and spent a lot of their lifetime Folding (which tends to be HARDER on a cards than most cryptocoin algorithms are).

[Deperp]

I run 60% on most everything, up to 70% on really hot cards. If you need more than that I think another solution is needed like looking at spacing/ambient.

[johny78]

For me auto fans , gpu target temp <75 C , all good

[CryptoPlay]

I found this topic useless.
You need to be specific! 

I do have Vega 64 cards and the min is 3000RPM because the problem of this card is HBM temp and not CORE temp. The rpm is not related to HBM temp, so, you'll need to keep the min high since memory temp will be higher than core always.

Vega card is most often used in cryptonight algo that do not generate a lot of heat compared to others, i think longevity wont be a problem.

[Bigdrago]

OverdriveNTool, set gpu target 57C

[Tidsdilatation]

i like to keep my GPUs cool, around 69c. That means around 70-75% fan speed. My oldest card is a 1070 that i bought the day they were released, and it is still going strong. So im sticking with these setting becourse they seem to work for the Nvidia cards. 

[Swinging Phallus]

I honestly just mod the GPU temps with afterburner and leave fans at auto. (Although I heard there are much more efficient ways to mod other than afterburner, I prefer it's GUI). Main reason why I do that is because on most of the GPUs I run the fans are the first thing to go.

[kiver]

I'm wondering what's the average fan speed some of you use?

I have some GPU's that are ok with 50%, but some need 70%.  I've heard some people say 70% will kill your cards early, while others have said 70% has lasted them years.  Anyone have experience?

well about setting the fan on 70% will kill your gpu but settings for my cards depends on temperature of the card itself so if card temp were 60 the fan 60 and so on sometimes i make below that with 10 degree in the cold days
and remember the hot temp of a card could also kill it

[ingvarfervent]

I prefer temp ~65c. For some cards set 50%, another 65%, but need see not only for %, chech fan speed it can be 1200 ( 40% ) on 1 card and 1600 ( 40% ) for other card if they have don`t same cooling 

[Turkish88]

Dont run gpu coolers on high speed, more than 50% this kill fans very fast.
Use extended 12mm cooler for better cooling, this also will be silent

[Agozyen]

I set mine to a low temperature and power threshold.  The system determines the minimum fan speed based on GPU Temp, which doesn't get too hot because the power is scaled down.

[ilovegambling]

I've heard many different opinions and the last was that you must keep the fans at 100% and this will extend the life span of the gpu's. I run my fans 70% and the temp is around 82c and you could not touch the cards.They're extremely hot. But i think my problem is not from fan adjustment instead of space ventilation. I have placed too many gpu's in one room and have no option to put some king of fan to get our the air. Do you think this temp can cause some damage to the cards - evga 1070 ti.
Cheers!

[leowonderful]

I've heard many different opinions and the last was that you must keep the fans at 100% and this will extend the life span of the gpu's. I run my fans 70% and the temp is around 82c and you could not touch the cards.They're extremely hot. But i think my problem is not from fan adjustment instead of space ventilation. I have placed too many gpu's in one room and have no option to put some king of fan to get our the air. Do you think this temp can cause some damage to the cards - evga 1070 ti.
Cheers!

Problem is the fans on some GPUs break pretty easily if you keep em at 100% for a long time, and replacements cost time and money.  


At the very least 80c+ is subpar and you should consider moving some GPUs to another place to lower temps or undervolt to reduce power consumption and thus lower temps a bit. My oldest RX 470 ran at 80c for a year and it's still going fine, though I moved to a cooler spot a few months ago.