4070 max temperature

[Sharpman85]

Hi,

 

I have been experimenting with lowering power target on my 4070 when something went wrong at 80 and the fans did not ramp up until the core hit 88 C. This happened twice for a very short time.

My question us whether I should be worried about the gpu being damaged as Nvidia specifies the max temp at 90 C? Or is it that at 90 C it will downclock itself to lower temps?

[Salted Spinach]

The GPU wont be damaged even at 90C

 

However something is very wrong if a 4070 manages to reach 88C

 

My 4070 Super maxes out at around 60C when it is full tilt in games

[Sharpman85]

18 minutes ago, Salted Spinach said:

The GPU wont be damaged even at 90C

 

However something is very wrong if a 4070 manages to reach 88C

 

My 4070 Super maxes out at around 60C when it is full tilt in games

The fans did bot ramp up due to me messing something up in gpu tweak iii, normally it runs very cool.

 

Lesson learned and thank you for your confirmation.

 

Out of curiosity, what temp would cause permanent damage? Wouldn’t it throttle and shut down after prolonged exposure?

[Salted Spinach]

1 hour ago, Sharpman85 said:

Out of curiosity, what temp would cause permanent damage?

If it exceeds 95 for extended lengths of time, the silicon will degrade faster

 

1 hour ago, Sharpman85 said:

Wouldn’t it throttle and shut down after prolonged exposure?

It will slow itself down so that it can draw less power and produce less heat. If the GPU crashes or shuts down, there is either a power delivery issue or is unstable

[Sharpman85]

36 minutes ago, Salted Spinach said:

If it exceeds 95 for extended lengths of time, the silicon will degrade faster

 

It will slow itself down so that it can draw less power and produce less heat. If the GPU crashes or shuts down, there is either a power delivery issue or is unstable

Ok, so nothing to worry about now, thank you and have a nice day.

[Sharpman85]

On 11/2/2024 at 8:51 AM, Salted Spinach said:

If it exceeds 95 for extended lengths of time, the silicon will degrade faster

 

It will slow itself down so that it can draw less power and produce less heat. If the GPU crashes or shuts down, there is either a power delivery issue or is unstable

Small update. I know what I did wrong, I set the fans to constantly run at 50% instead of that being the lowest point in the fan curve. I did not game anything demanding for long but I did run the Monster Hunter Beta for a few (10-ish) minutes where it reached 88-91 c and stayed there. Do you think it damaged the GPU or was it too short to do anything bad? I noticed it throttling at one point.

 

Lessons learned - check the whole curve..

[Mark Kaine]

On 11/2/2024 at 7:08 AM, Sharpman85 said:

gpu tweak

there's your issue.  uninstall. very unreliable bad software you're using there.

 

use msi afterburner instead or my suggestion would actually be leave the card at default settings, at least until you more familiar with its behavior. 

 

 

24 minutes ago, Sharpman85 said:

Do you think it damaged the GPU

probably not but we'll never know...

 

the important part is: uninstall "gpu tweak" and don't over or under clock your gpu if you don't know what you're doing  (which considering you're using Asus software, is likely the case)

[Sharpman85]

22 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

there's your issue.  uninstall. very unreliable bad software you're using there.

 

use msi afterburner instead or my suggestion would actually be leave the card at default settings, at least until you more familiar with its behavior. 

 

 

probably not but we'll never know...

 

the important part is: uninstall "gpu tweak" and don't over or under clock your gpu if you don't know what you're doing  (which considering you're using Asus software, is likely the case)

I was just modifying the fan curve but I will leave it at stock now. So far there have been no artifacts and the time was more like 3 minutes than 10 but you are right, we’ll never know if it was damaged or not.

Is there a reliable way of finding this out?

 

edit: this is also entirely on me, not the software. It was clearly showing what I said but I managed to misinterpret it.