P370em with 980m fan control question.

Hi guys, yesterday, i upgradeed my gpu for 980m from 7970M

And i have a question about p370em fan profile.

i think most of nvidia gpus temps are lower than amd gpus especially maxwell version. However my 980m's highest temp is 86c! With full fan mode , it significantly decrease to 75c. But i think p370em just let the temps going to 86c without increasing rpm automatically. I think there is only 3 stages of changing rpm. First is really slow, (for idle)second is just middle rpm for gaming but this is mot really fast enough to cool down the temps(this can cause highest temps for 980m) and fullfan mod, and i did manually. Why this unit just let the gpus becoming 86c without changing rpm? Is this some problem about compatibility? I think the cAse of 7970m, the fan controls automatically and it always maintain around 80c. I dont know what the problem is.

 

What is your ASIC? If its over 62% its going to run hot.... You can change from thermal paste to liquid ultra and have a roughly 10C drop but max fans are all but mandatory when you have a high ASIC card. Its really annoying that Clevo did the fan profiles that way... even when its overheating, fans run at 80%... and least on my SM-A

 

I am sorry but would you tell me what the ASIC is? And how can i find my ASIC?? Tday i played Dying light for 2 hours, i think full fan is starting from 86c and it goes down around 70c.. And the temps continuously rising and full fan again.. This is the roop of fan controlling. I just want to modify the fan control for the temps to stay around 78-80...i am curious that this situation is only for my p370em or not...

 

I found my 980m ASIC percent. Through GPU-Z it shows me 67% percent ASIC quality. I dont know what this means exactly/.

 

67% shouldn't be that hot... Clevo averages 65%...

ASIC is the measure of silicon quality... higher the number, the higher quality silicon and the lower voltage pumped to the card. It has a trade off though... Higher the ASIC, the more likely you are to have leakage in the chip (and thus higher temps) but your ASIC isn't so high as to cause that so outside of a repaste with a really good thermal paste, you wont notice enough improvement to warrant the hassle... Maxwell 2 has a thermal shut down at 95C... and throttles well before that... I would say its going to annoy you less to just leave it as is than to repaste just to lose 1-2C.

 

Chips that require less voltage will also have lower max switching speeds at higher voltages where as chips that run at a higher voltage have a higher theoretical peak speed. The lower voltage chips will usually hit a wall where they can go no further due to the physical limitations of the transistor dimensions. So the higher the ASIC the lower the stock voltage usually, but they will benefit the least from over volting assuming thermals don't get in the way first.

 

Thanks for a kind explanation! Meaker and Ethrem, i just put amd xbracket to my 980m. maybe, i have to change my x-bracket which comes from amd gpus...they have a big difference..amd xbracket isnt fit well with nvidia gpu..

 

The cards usually come with them. The posts rest in the same position, so if you mean swap the brackets over when you get them, that's just inviting issues and don't bother.