HOF 980ti running hot? Games crashing because of this

[F@Albert17]

Do u have your framrate locked or unlocked ??

Try locking it so your card wont have to pump out more frames ...bringing down temps

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[Star_22]

As a side note, what exactly does the button on the back of the card do?

Not 100% sure but I read somewhere when I was googling the same thing regarding my 970 HOF that It's a boost button mainly for extreme ocing/and running fans full speed and bypassing certain safety limitations( voltage etc) on the card in case you want to LN2 or something.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Not 100% sure but I read somewhere when I was googling the same thing regarding my 970 HOF that It's a boost button mainly for extreme ocing/and running fans full speed and bypassing certain safety limitations( voltage etc) on the card in case you want to LN2 or something.

Yea this was the case on the 970's. from the 980's they changed this to swap between one of 2 bios incase your oc on one failed/crashed i guess.

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[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Do u have your framrate locked or unlocked ??

Try locking it so your card wont have to pump out more frames ...bringing down temps

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i play most games with vsync on which caps the frames at 60.
and that alone didnt help much considering the condition the paste on the card was in.

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[ambroseg1]

Low and behold.
Replaced the current tp on the card (current tp was crusty and pushed off the die already). and the temps under furmark dropped to 74 degrees with standard fan profiles.
It's changing between 73 and 74 as the fan speed increases/decreases.
So thanks all for the help/suggestions.
Seems the pasta was the cause of my 'overheating'

Unbelievable. Did you manage to game on it to check if the crashing had stopped?

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Unbelievable. Did you manage to game on it to check if the crashing had stopped?

Yep. Ran Vermintide on max settings for a few hours with standard fan profiles and it ran perfectly.
Temps didn't go above 65c with normal gaming.

 

[ambroseg1]

Yep. Ran Vermintide on max settings for a few hours with standard fan profiles and it ran perfectly.
Temps didn't go above 65c with normal gaming.

Brilliant result.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Brilliant result.

It's amazing that the card was running at all seeing as there was barely any paste on the gpu die.
Most of the paste was pushed off the sides of the die, and it was dried out to the point where I had to almost scrape it off with the plastic bit of a cotton bud.
Even alcohol didn't want to take it off.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

So this is all sorted.
Thanks to those who helped with this.