GPU Temps

[Mateus Montemor]

Hi guys, its summer here in Brasil and its freaking hot, so i've been monitoring my PC temps and CPU is fine (barely hitting 68°C on 40 min in AIDA64), but my GPU is reaching the following temps:

-AC off, room temp:30-40°C  GPU at 100%load(Heaven,Kombustor and The Witcher3): 76°C max

-AC on, room temp:18-22°C  GPU at 100%load(Heaven,Kombustor and The Witcher3): 72°C max

I'm using a bit of overclock and a profile for the GPU fans, both in msi afterburner (images)

Are those temps ok? I know its not thermal throttling and its still boosting to 1980MHz on Heaven and 1910 on the Witcher3, but i would like a bit of yours guys opnion. Should i remove the OC? Change the fan profiles? Maybe downgrade the RAM OC to 1866 with 1.6V and try to run the hole case a little cooler? Im open to suggestions , thanks!

 

PS: My case has 2 intake fans (140mm/120mm)  and 3 exhaust (2 120mm on the radiator/1 200mm)

[Constantin]

I would do a different curve starting at 45c and finishing at 78~80c

Anything above ~70c make me nervous

[Frankenburger]

Most GPUs won't start hard throttling until 85c, and GPUs generally don't get damaged until you start going above 95c. 76c is perfectly fine.

[Mateus Montemor]

5 minutes ago, Constantin said:

I would do a different curve starting at 45c and finishing at 78~80c

Something like this or direct from 45 to 80? I like to maintain until 50 - 60 in a line so it doesnt make much noise in idle, that is when im not using headphones

[Mateus Montemor]

Just now, Frankenburger said:

Most GPUs won't start hard throttling until 85c, and GPUs generally don't get damaged until you start going above 95c. 76c is perfectly fine.

Yeah, i thought so, is that today there is so much videos about cooling that u start thinking too much into it, thanks!

[Constantin]

2 minutes ago, FazBEBETO said:

Something like this or direct from 45 to 80? I like to maintain until 50 - 60 in a line so it doesnt make much noise in idle, that is when im not using headphones

this looks fine

 

[Mateus Montemor]

Just now, Constantin said:

this looks fine

 

Ok, thanks man!  

[Constantin]

2 minutes ago, FazBEBETO said:

Ok, thanks man!  

you could start at 25% fan speed though, would be better

[Frankenburger]

4 minutes ago, FazBEBETO said:

Yeah, i thought so, is that today there is so much videos about cooling that u start thinking too much into it, thanks!

A lot of people tend to overthink GPU temps. Also, modern cards having temperature/clock curves doesn't help people's understanding either. Just remember that it wasn't too long ago that GPUs would reach 90c, and that was considered the norm until about 2011.