Gtx 970 max temp???

[Dr Seuss]

K I just installed a gtx 970 into my computer, and quickly ran a stress test to try it out. Right of the start, I got concerned at how quickly the temperature rose. It went from 50 degrees celcius to 75 within 30 seconds, and from 75 to 80 within a minute afterward. Should I be concerned? Somewhere I heard that your gpu should never go above 90 degrees celcius, and considering how the test was only running for 2 min top and reached 80, I'm scared to try running demanding games with it. 

 

[r2724r16]

1 minute ago, Dr Seuss said:

It went from 50 degrees celcius to 75 within 30 seconds, and from 75 to 80 within a minute afterward.

Which GTX 970 model do you have? What case do you have? 80°C in less than two minutes is suspiciously hot.

[Dr Seuss]

11 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

Which GTX 970 model do you have? What case do you have? 80°C in less than two minutes is suspiciously hot.

EVGA GTX 970 4gb. I have stock case(at first I thought this may be why it got so hot, but it seems like it the case would keep it cool over time not instant.)

I am looking at getting two or three fans to put in my case, would that help?

[r2724r16]

Just now, Dr Seuss said:

EVGA GTX 970 4gb. I have stock case(at first I thought this may be why it got so hot, but it seems like it the case would keep it cool over time not instant.)

In my opinion, 80°C is fine and you have nothing to worry about. Your GPU may however thermal throttle a bit.

 

But if you're uncomfortable with your temperatures, I recommend modifying your graphics card's fan curve in MSI Afterburner (Settings > Fan > Enable user defined software automatic fan control) to something more aggressive.

[_Aontaigh_]

20 minutes ago, Dr Seuss said:

K I just installed a gtx 970 into my computer, and quickly ran a stress test to try it out. Right of the start, I got concerned at how quickly the temperature rose. It went from 50 degrees celcius to 75 within 30 seconds, and from 75 to 80 within a minute afterward. Should I be concerned? Somewhere I heard that your gpu should never go above 90 degrees celcius, and considering how the test was only running for 2 min top and reached 80, I'm scared to try running demanding games with it. 

 

What stress test were you running?

[Dr Seuss]

4 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

In my opinion, 80°C is fine and you have nothing to worry about. Your GPU may however thermal throttle a bit.

 

Thermal throttle???

 

1 minute ago, _Aontaigh_ said:

What stress test were you running?

Furmark 1080 full screen

[r2724r16]

Just now, Dr Seuss said:

Thermal throttle???

This means that your GPU will decrease its core and memory clocks in order to stay cool. In other words, you'll get less FPS.

[Dr Seuss]

Just now, r2724r16 said:

This means that your GPU will decrease its core and memory clocks in order to stay cool. In other words, you'll get less FPS.

That's fine, I have an i5 4590 3.3 GHz anyways, already bottlenecking the cpu. gpu decrease wouldn't change fps, right?

[_Aontaigh_]

2 minutes ago, Dr Seuss said:

Thermal throttle???

 

Furmark 1080 full screen

That puts an extremely unrealistic load on the card and is nothing more than a power virus.

 

Use something along the lines of Unigine Heaven, Unigine Valley, 3DMark TimeSpy, and so for temperature and stability testing rather than something as synthetic as Furmark.

[Dr Seuss]

okay. I've downloaded msi afterburner and adjusted the fan control more "aggressively", I've downloaded unigine heaven and turned graphics to high antialiasing x4 1080p fullscreen, easily 70-80 fps, my gpu was struggling to get above 60 degrees celcius, even after 5 min in benchmarking.

 

(yes I'm an idiot, please deal with it) fan is pretty loud, don't care about the sound of the fan but I'm scared I'm going to wear out the fan, is that even a thing? should I tune down the fan speed and find a happy-medium?

[Dr Seuss]

1 minute ago, _StrikE_ said:

Personally i'd go for "opening" up the card, cleaning it, changing thermal paste and pads, before going for more aggressive fan speeds, and if after that temps are withing the 60-70c temperature spectrum, depending on your ambient temperatures, call it a day.

uhhhhhh no thanks. don't know near enough about gpu to open them up and fiddle with it.