GTX970 overclocked

[BoredomisMyKingdom]

Ive had my card for more than a year and I have never OC'd my card the whole time Ive had it, and it has been happily running stock below 80degrees, about 76-79 under full load. So I decided to try it out. The max temps on my GPU according to the manufacturer is 98 degrees(I have a zotac blower type gtx970). I managed to get it up to 1400-1450mhz stable at full load with a 450mhz boost on the memory. Didnt meddle with the voltage at all. 

 

So to my main concern, the graphics card is running at around 87-90 degrees constant. Should I be worried? Will it kill it?

 

I am planning to upgrade to a 1080 around the end of this year or by early next year. Is the 10%+ performance boost worth it? Or should I just stick to stock speeds?

 

Note: I do game pretty heavily about 6 hours a day, Just Cause 3, Doom and Witcher 3

 

Thanks xP

[Max_Settings]

If you plan to sell the card just leave it as stock, then you can say "never overclocked"

[BoredomisMyKingdom]

2 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

If you plan to sell the card just leave it as stock, then you can say "never overclocked"

Either that or I let my little sister or younger brother have my build xP will it live long enough for them to use? 90 degrees seems insane, fanspeed is maxed out as well

[sazrocks]

anything above 85 is uncomfortably hot for me. Maybe back it off to get it under 85. Or just change the fan curve.

[Max_Settings]

Just now, sazrocks said:

anything above 85 is uncomfortably hot for me. maybe back it off to get it under 85. Or just change the fan curve.

I agree, keep it below 85C

[BoredomisMyKingdom]

8 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

I agree, keep it below 85C

So limiting it to 83-85, gets me 1370mhz I thinks that will do. Thanks for the input guys

[SkilledRebuilds]

2 hours ago, BoredomisMyKingdom said:

So limiting it to 83-85, gets me 1370mhz I thinks that will do. Thanks for the input guys

Thats still a very decent clockspeed for GTX970's to use.

My G1 Gaming at stock is 1380Mhz (I've left it at 1401Mhz for its entire life so far) but it's capable of 1500+ easy, It's still not needed for my Gaming needs are met.

But in saying that, MSI's cards do 1341Mhz TurboBoost so your still above 'aftermarket' stock speeds.