GTX 1070 Mini Temps - Hot or not?

[sascha2494]

Alright so here is my problem or rather my question if I have a problem.

I've been having annoying fan noises when gaming. I assumed it was my stock ryzen cooler but I found out that it's my GTX 1070 Mini.

So I went on to check my temps with MSI Afterburner and create a costum fan curve. Here is what I'm having trouble with:

Without my custom fan curve, the card runs at around 75% fan speed at 82/83°C while gaming.

Manually truning the speed to 100% doesn't cool the card down any more.

Yet turning the fan speed down to 50% doesn't make it hotter either but a lot quietter (Haven't tried going down further yet). Now some will probably say, that even though it doesn't get hotter it will thermal throttle. If so, I can't feel it in game.

When idleing temps are around 54°C at 25% fan speed, it does actually go down to 45°C at 100% fan speed, but who would want that noise level.

 

So my question is, am I damaging my card when letting it run at 83°C under load and 54°C on idle? Honostly I wouldn't know what to change, but load temps seemed high to me, so I thought I'd ask.

 

System:
GTX 1070 Mini 8GB

Ryzen 5 3600 (with stock cooler as said)

32GB (2x 16384MB) Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4-2666 DIMM CL16-18-18-35

1Tb Samsung 970 Evo M.2

Gigabyte Aorus Pro WIFI AMD B450 Mini ITX

 

[Mateyyy]

1 minute ago, sascha2494 said:

So my question is, am I damaging my card when letting it run at 83°C under load and 54°C on idle? Honostly I wouldn't know what to change, but load temps seemed high to me, so I thought I'd ask.

Those temperatures are safe for long-term use, you're fine.

[Moonzy]

4 minutes ago, sascha2494 said:

am I damaging my card when letting it run at 83°C under load and 54°C on idle?

it's running hot, but it's still "fine"

 

did u try taking off your side panel to see if temps drop dramatically? case airflow might be bad?

[porina]

Around 83C is the normal thermal limit for nvidia cards, so it is normal temps don't go above that if you reduce the cooling. If you increase the cooling it wont change either, but you might get slightly higher boost clocks.

[sascha2494]

1 hour ago, Moonzy said:

it's running hot, but it's still "fine"

 

did u try taking off your side panel to see if temps drop dramatically? case airflow might be bad?

I had not, just tried it.

I was suprised seeing idle temps drop down to 47°C. While gaming it went down 4° to 79°C. This suprised me so much as I am using a Sharkoon C10 case where my 1070 is in vertical position with the fans directly blowing out through the meshed cut outs on the left.

[sascha2494]

1 hour ago, Mateyyy said:

Those temperatures are safe for long-term use, you're fine.

Thanks that calms me down.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, sascha2494 said:

I had not, just tried it.

I was suprised seeing idle temps drop down to 47°C. While gaming it went down 4° to 79°C. This suprised me so much as I am using a Sharkoon C10 case where my 1070 is in vertical position with the fans directly blowing out through the meshed cut outs on the left.

Eh, 4c isn't much of a drop and it's expected in most cases (hah)

 

I would say you have a hot running card since it's a small heatsink, but the temps aren't alarmingly bad

[LordVetinari]

The 1070 minis are hot running cards - 82c is fine.