GPU Temps

[unses]

I wasn't sure if I should put this in GPUs or the cooling section, but here it is.

 

I'm running two GTX 770s in SLI. When under heavy load, one GPU is reaching 75 C while the other is getting up to 90 ish C, due to having next to no room to breathe. I have two questions. 

 

Firstly. Is a temperature in the 90s even safe for my GPU in the long run? Also, is there a reasonably cheap liquid cooling solution available? I've already got a H100i for my cpu so I dont really want a custom loop. Would the Kraken G10 + cooler be my best/cheapest option if I wanted to go AOI for my GPUs? Thanks!

[mathiasquach]

have you seen the fast as possible with safe temps here's a link and i would recommend the kraken and those temps are really scary you should indeed get the kraken

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

no it's not safe specially for a nVidia GPU, and it isn't also on the long run

get better airflow case or a larger case to give it some breathing room, switch to a test bench, or do the most extreme solution, as you said, go for a custom loop, so juet get a kraken or koolance water blocks for em with a powerful pump, water cooling em will be the best bet

[Recon-UK]

90c is perfectly fine, Kepler is a variant of Fermi with less per clock horsepower.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

90c is perfectly fine, Kepler is a variant of Fermi with less per clock horsepower.

come on Recon, if it was a AMD GPU, huum yes, you could say that, but for nVidia, even for Kepler based GPU, it's dangerous, specially for the long run as he stated

[Recon-UK]

come on Recon, if it was a AMD GPU, huum yes, you could say that, but for nVidia, even for Kepler based GPU, it's dangerous, specially for the long run as he stated

No, silicon starts to get toasty at 110cc, 90c is painless for a GPU, but you may not like the heat dump, GPU's are far stronger than you think, usually the power deilvery will collapse before the main GPU does.

 

 

Clock for clock proof:

 

980mhz 660Ti

 

 

 

My old 891mhz GTX 480:

 

[Enderman]

90c is perfectly fine, Kepler is a variant of Fermi with less per clock horsepower.

90c is the absolute maximum temperature for those cards. Usually the profiles in GPU boost 2.0 set 80c as the max

if you run your cards at 90c you can expect them to last less than 2 years.

[Recon-UK]

90c is the absolute maximum temperature for those cards. Usually the profiles in GPU boost 2.0 set 80c as the max

if you run your cards at 90c you can expect them to last less than 2 years.

Set by Nvidia, they can do more than that safely.

[unses]

no it's not safe specially for a nVidia GPU, and it isn't also on the long run

get better airflow case or a larger case to give it some breathing room, switch to a test bench, or do the most extreme solution, as you said, go for a custom loop, so juet get a kraken or koolance water blocks for em with a powerful pump, water cooling em will be the best bet

As I said. I can't really afford a custom loop as these tend to get very expensive. I'm thinking of 2 G10s with two AIOs. Does there happen to be an all in one with two blocks? Or am I going to need to get two seperate ones.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

No, silicon starts to get toasty at 110cc, 90c is painless for a GPU, but you may not like the heat dump, GPU's are far stronger than you think, usually the power deilvery will collapse before the main GPU does

 

 

Still, it's steps away from throttling temp men, and for the long run, it does shrink the life span of the GPU doesn't it

[xmx1024]

have you seen the fast as possible with safe temps here's a link and i would recommend the kraken and those temps are really scary you should indeed get the kraken

did you mention the kraken because I think you forgot to mention the kraken indeed this guy should get the kraken. kraken.

[Recon-UK]

As I said. I can't really afford a custom loop as these tend to get very expensive. I'm thinking of 2 G10s with two AIOs. Does there happen to be an all in one with two blocks? Or am I going to need to get two seperate ones.

Really you do not need any kind of AIO on a GPU, i suggest you look at this:

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gelid-solutions-icy-vision-vga-cooler-for-ati-amd

 

 

Out of stock atr Scan, but they are amazing coolers, it is what cooled my 480's back in the day, look above for temps...

[unses]

90c is the absolute maximum temperature for those cards. Usually the profiles in GPU boost 2.0 set 80c as the max

if you run your cards at 90c you can expect them to last less than 2 years.

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-770/specifications

 

The max temp on the NVidia site is 98 C, so I think i'm okay, though I think I might still get some extra cooling going (because I can't help but want to mod my rig).

[Recon-UK]

Still, it's steps away from throttling temp men, and for the long run, it does shrink the life span of the GPU doesn't it

No evidence of it shortening life span at all, voltage does however.

[mathiasquach]

did you mention the kraken because I think you forgot to mention the kraken indeed this guy should get the kraken. kraken.

RELEASE THE KRAKEN

[unses]

Really you do not need any kind of AIO on a GPU, i suggest you look at this:

 

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/gelid-solutions-icy-vision-vga-cooler-for-ati-amd

 

 

Out of stock atr Scan, but they are amazing coolers, it is what cooled my 480's back in the day, look above for temps...

Wont this run into the exact same problem I have now though? My top card cannot get any air due to being so close to the bottom card. So getting another fan cooling option will be exactly the same as I have now.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

As I said. I can't really afford a custom loop as these tend to get very expensive. I'm thinking of 2 G10s with two AIOs. Does there happen to be an all in one with two blocks? Or am I going to need to get two seperate ones.

two seperate ones i think, but i believe that for a dual Graphics cards config, if not a custom loop, i would prefer to have it on the motherboard box than have it hitting ludachrisly temps, that's what i did for a month when i first built my rig and din't have my test bench delivered yet,

[Recon-UK]

Wont this run into the exact same problem I have now though? My top card cannot get any air due to being so close to the bottom card. So getting another fan cooling option will be exactly the same as I have now.

Your card is significantly more efficient than a GTX 480, and even 480's were cooled massively.

 

 

Do you have room for 2x almost 3 slot GPU coolers, as long as you have more space than i did, you will be minted.

 

 

Image:

 

[Recon-UK]

[unses]

Your card is significantly more efficient than a GTX 480, and even 480's were cooled massively.

 

 

Do you have room for 2x almost 3 slot GPU coolers, as long as you have more space than i did, you will be minted.

 

 

Image:

 

I'm running in an Obsidian 350D with an ASRock Z87m extreme 4. So space is rather limited for me. I cant being going for huge direct fans.

[Recon-UK]

This would be fine:

 

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

No evidence of it shortening life span at all, voltage does however.

believe me, it does

[Recon-UK]

believe me, it does

What do you think killed my GTX 480?  heat or voltage?

 

Do look at the posted image before vs the 660Ti.

[xmx1024]

RELEASE THE KRAKEN

[unses]

This would be fine:

 

The bottom PCI-e port is 2.0, not 3.0. "PCI-e 2.0 x 16 slot (pci-e x 4 mode)" As opposed to slots 1 & 3 which are both 16/8x. Will this make a significant difference to my performance?