I'm not a gamer by any means, but I do like seeing info about my PC using rainmeter with the HWINFO plugin. I had a MSI 650 Ti card and I was able to see the fan RPM speed and percent all the time. Now that I have the EVGA GTX 960 SC (02G-P4-2962-KR), HWINFO doesn't show the fan until it has kicked on by straining it and pushing up to 60C. Anyone have a fix for this that doesn't require running software in the background to force a different fan curve?
 
I used to care about my card/temp when I was converting videos, it used cuda cores, but I have been using handbrake for quite some time now as I get better results. When I was ripping using other software that used the video card, I'd monitor the temp and whatnot. Now I just like knowing how hard it's running. I really only play online games and probably didn't need to upgrade the card, but on occasion, the games were getting glitchy. Probably due more to flash than the card... regardless, I got the new card.
 
I understand that it doesn't turn on until the GPU gets up to 60C, but thought it odd that it doesn't even show up to HWINFO until it turns on. Figured it would show 0 or something.

I'm going to guess that it isn't showing a fan RPM because it's an ACX 2.0 card. ACX 2.0 and 3.0 cards don't have their fans kick on until ~60C.
 
Some cards have a secondary VBIOS that you can flip a physical switch to and it will have a minimal fan speed (not the 0dB mode).
 
So it sounds like a limitation with the software that you're using. Are there any newer versions that you can try?

I'm guessing that's the issue too. The software is HWInfo, the 64bit version:
 
I didn't look at the card to see if it had a switch or anything... Suppose I could pull it back out and see. Guessing it would be around the perimeter of the board?
 
HWInfo sensors before the fan is triggered:

 
HWInfo sensors after the fan is triggered:

 
My rainmeter widget before the fan is triggered:

 
My rainmeter widget after the fan is triggered:

 
I'll probably ignore it... or read up a bit on rainmeter to see if there's a way to handle a sensor being null a bit more elegantly.
 
Guess I can't post links yet. Regardless, I have the latest version of HWiNFO installed.
 
 
 

I don't think your model has 2 VBIOS, so your having the latest HWINFO is all that can be done.

Well, I got it off ebay just to boost performance a little over the 650 Ti I had.
 
Thanks for the help!