redleader00

Ziddyz

redleader00

Ziddyz
5 mins or so, the temp is now around 45C after 25 minutes.
 

Leave the system idle, manually set the fans to 80% for like 10mins to cool the card as much as possible and then set fans to auto again. Then wait a few mins and see what is your idle temp.
A screenshot of your fan curve will also help.
 
Also note: The precisionX fan curve is not the same as the default bios fan curve.
 
Another idea, keep your second monitor unplugged while you try to resolve this issue just to remove it from the equation.

After 10 mins the temp is at 37C. After 5 mins it sticks at 37C. The second monitor is also unplugged (likely won't even make a difference like before). I did not touch the fan curve at all but I can show it after clicking it
As for precision X there doesn't seem to be a difference at all, infact having precision x off actually increased the temp from what I've seen yesterday.
Also during the previous screenshots automatic fan control was off so the card was handling the temps rather than precision x.

 
 The idle temps are little high i would say, my exact same card idles at 27c. May i suggest applying thermal past again, using some higher end paste. It could simply be poor thermal paste application. You will have to take it apart of course, here is a link to a video showing how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBjTi0uj64E. But it is at your own risk, i am not sure how the warranty will work, but if you take of the back plate there is a seal you break, so you may not be able to rma it. It is at your own risk. But that could be the problem, a simple bad thermal paste application. 

37ºC at idle is OK, so it is not a card hardware problem. I think previously your card wasn't cooling down enough after the benchmark (even if it was idle at the moment) because you had the "master fan auto switch" off in the "fan settings" config tab. After your temp dropped 60ºC your fans were set to 0% (default bios fan curve behavior), so it was not cooling down to the standard "idle" temperature.
 
Just keep your PrecisionXOC fan settings as you have them now (with the master fan auto switch enabled and the 3 fans on auto) and you will be fine.
 
Note: You can try to plug you other monitor with now. I think it will work as you said, since the problem was the fan curve from PrecisionX not being applied .