Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
Can you post your build? It could be motherboard, PSU or GPU.
Try the 970 in another PC.
Try another card in your PC.
It could just be one fan faulty. Check the lead from the fan to the PCB. Maybe the lead got damaged by the fan - "something hitting the fan"
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
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i7Baby
Can you post your build? It could be motherboard, PSU or GPU.
Try the 970 in another PC.
Try another card in your PC.
It could just be one fan faulty. Check the lead from the fan to the PCB. Maybe the lead got damaged by the fan - "something hitting the fan"
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Don't have another PC or other card to test.
PSU is a 1000W Corsair PSU - few years old.
It could just be one fan faulty. Check the lead from the fan to the PCB. Maybe the lead got damaged by the fan - "something hitting the fan" - this would involve removing the shroud, something I am not prepared to do.
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
You don't know anyone else with a PC?
1000W should be high quality. What model?
If you don't want to do a teardown, maybe take it to a shop, get a friend to help or borrow or buy a replacement GPU. You are boxing yourself in as to what you can do.
Has the lead been damaged by the fan? Can you see?
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
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i7Baby
You don't know anyone else with a PC?
- That's not what I said. I said I didn't have another PC or another card to test - which is what you asked.
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Originally Posted by
i7Baby
If you don't want to do a teardown, maybe take it to a shop, get a friend to help or borrow or buy a replacement GPU. You are boxing yourself in as to what you can do.
Has the lead been damaged by the fan? Can you see?
- With all due respect, I'm not boxing myself into anything. Why would I take apart a GPU, that I believe is still covered by EVGA's warranty?
Anyway, a work colleague may have a 970 (same model as mine) going spare to allow me to test, won't know until tomorrow.
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
Given it happens when the GPU clocks tick upwards it sounds like something momentarily loads the GPU, and I'd guess there's a profile somewhere that links the fan speed to the GPU load rather than the temperature.
All sorts of things can load the GPU momentarily - the first suspect would be flash/HTML5 adverts/video/etc. (this happens on my laptop on a semi-regular basis: I'll scroll down a website or load a new page and the laptop fan will suddenly kick in and occasionlly the browser will freeze as it atempts to access the GPU for acceleration).
If the temperatures are stable then I don't think it's anything much to worry about, but it'd be handy if you could find out what's causing that GPU load...
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
May not help directly but I had the 970 SC model and never ever had the fans just spin up. As you know they are stopped until the temp rises then they start moving. But never had that issue. I had a problem with it crashing in certain games and sent the card to EVGA who sent me back the upgraded 970 SSC so bonus there.
As scaryjim says things do load the gpu but I never had that. Maybe run a live linux and load that up and browse some web pages etc and see if it happens in linux, if not could be software related rather than the card itself.
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
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scaryjim
Given it happens when the GPU clocks tick upwards it sounds like something momentarily loads the GPU, and I'd guess there's a profile somewhere that links the fan speed to the GPU load rather than the temperature.
All sorts of things can load the GPU momentarily - the first suspect would be flash/HTML5 adverts/video/etc. (this happens on my laptop on a semi-regular basis: I'll scroll down a website or load a new page and the laptop fan will suddenly kick in and occasionlly the browser will freeze as it atempts to access the GPU for acceleration).
If the temperatures are stable then I don't think it's anything much to worry about, but it'd be handy if you could find out what's causing that GPU load...
Cheers Jim.
Yesterday I watched / monitored GPU Z and Task Manager before it started spinning up and I didn't notice any additional load / temporary load on either the CPU or GPU but the fans span up and sat at 2000RPM for a few minutes before it dropped again for a second then span up again.
If my colleague does manage to bring in a 970 tomorrow (or even tonight) then I will test with that GPU and see what happens.
If it doesn't happened with the loaned GPU (ill give it a day or two) ill switch back to my own GPU and see if it happens again, if it doesn't I've clearly been a berk and missed something obvious during my checking / testing.
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
Would it be worth partitioning the hard drive, installing a fresh copy of windows, doing a bit of testing to see if there's something you may have accidentally clicked when configuring the fan profile?
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
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MrRockliffe
Would it be worth partitioning the hard drive, installing a fresh copy of windows, doing a bit of testing to see if there's something you may have accidentally clicked when configuring the fan profile?
Funny you should say this - I was planning a rebuild / format during my time off in a few weeks - so this will definitely be something on my list to remember / look out for.
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
So, my work colleague dropped a GTX off for me last night.
Swapped the cards out and the machine ran fine, no random GPU fan spin up or the like.
So at this point im suspecting a faulty GPU :( will know more when I swap mine back in and see if it still happens
Re: Is my GTX 970 Faulty?
As I said I had that very card and the same Precision x software and never had anything like you did.
I think EVGA returns has changed to the UK now but I sent it off to wherever it went to and the turnaround was pretty quick.