Nope, never saw a need for fan profile with this card. Prefer it as is.

Do you live in a freezer? 😀 Can't get it below 50-60C without using MSI AfterBurner to have the fans spinning. When you say idle, is that using a browser and none 3D programs or that your away from keyboard and power savings kick in? Just pondering, since my case should have enough vents, even got a corsair water cooler on the CPU.

Temps for the Strix seems to vary more than other cards, yours is probably the highest idle I've seen. In browsing mine may go up a degree or 2, videos go up to 45c at most. Only gaming will push it above 60c and load temps 76-78 (though most reviews show around 68-70c and lower idle than mine). Not sure if inconsistent TIM application between cards, but suspect the strix may be more affected by case temps/air flow than other cards since its fans are off at idle. I have a 200mm side fan blowing on it but not sure that would account for the large difference vs yours. You can test this by taking off your side panel and put an electric fan to blow on it. Also what are your load temps? If not higher than 78c, I wouldnt worry about it.

Temps for the Strix seems to vary more than other cards, yours is probably the highest idle I've seen. In browsing mine may go up a degree or 2, videos go up to 45c at most. Only gaming will push it above 60c and load temps 76-78 (though most reviews show around 68-70c and lower idle than mine). Not sure if inconsistent TIM application between cards, but suspect the strix may be more affected by case temps/air flow than other cards since its fans are off at idle. I have a 200mm side fan blowing on it but not sure that would account for the large difference vs yours. You can test this by taking off your side panel and put an electric fan to blow on it. Also what are your load temps? If not higher than 78c, I wouldnt worry about it.

Not worried, just very curious. Highest under gaming I have seen on it is 71C, even after some hours of gaming, which is weird since that is lower than yours. I have this case http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/143-h440-performance-mid-tower.html Only ssd's and radiator mounted on top, even if it isn't the most free flowing case it's not very restrictive either. I did see several other people write that their ASUS STRIX GTX970 hit's 60C when it is idle, so took a check on my card after and saw it also was at 60C idle. Then I quickly checked the Guru3D review again and started to wonder. Side fan does help to some extend, my previous HAFX was generally colder, didn't try the 970 in it though.

Imho this no fan bellow 50-60C kinda sux, mine atm stays cool ~ 27C, even my old TF3 was ~ 35C :P 🙂 Dunno why they opt for this silly design and MSI is doing it also with TF4..

Why would it suck if temps under 60c are no issue whatsoever for a graphics card? If fans are off 90% of the time (as with me), it means they are not sucking in dust, and with little operation have greater longevity. Good design idea imo.

Because 60 is not 30C? Why overheat the rest of components in idle for no reason, other then "quieter" operation.. Just saying. 🙂 EDIT: not trying to start a "fight" argument here, enjoy your gpu!

Overheat? 38c no fan sounds good to me. Even 60c is not 'overheat' but I'm sure you know that.

Mine idles at 36-38C and reaches about 60 during normal gameplay (running SLI with no custom profile). If I'm playing something really taxing it can get up to 70C (Monster Hunter benchmark).

Hi everyone, i see people are worrying about sitting at ~40 to 60 C w/o active cooling, how do you think technically, could it bring some damage to GPU and components? I'am thinking should i kick in some fan profile to cool starting at 35..40C or something.

60c+ idle was the 'norm' with many graphics cards not so long back (8800 series, HD4000, etc). Some recent cards have been running AT LOAD temps for months on end (AMD mining). So 60c is nothing for GPUs. Still, you do have that option to turn it into a 'regular card' with fans on all the time if it bothers you, but I doubt it will affect anything in terms of cards lifespan. It will just suck in a little more dust being on all the time.