GTX 960 Founder's Edition Idle Temps/Load Temps

[MultiMigo]

Hey guys, I recently bought a Palit GTX 960 2GB (Blower style fan) for $96. Went for this since it has almost or similar performance to the 1050 Ti which is $200 here in my place.

 

Are my idle temps okay? I have the fan at 100%. Idle temps are 30C and under load it goes to 62C. Are the temps still fine? Or do I need to check and replace the thermal paste. Bought it used.

[hconverse02]

Yup. 62C under load is really low. In perspective, ~95C is usually t-junction for nvidia cards, so you are perfectly fine.  Even temps in the 80s are fine.  Anything above 90 could be an issue, but isn't that big of a deal.

[RollinLower]

those are very good temperatures for a blower style cooler! why do you have the fan at 100% tough? isn't it horribly loud like that?

[userzero]

I have the MSI verison of that card. The fans were too loud at 100% lol, I just let Afterburner decide that. Managed to get a serious clock speed bump out of it, but any more than a couple of mhz on the memory and it crashes. Cracking card for the money though.

[Guest]

Thats pretty good. Reference coolers are usually in the 80s.

[MultiMigo]

14 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Yup. 62C under load is really low. In perspective, ~95C is usually t-junction for nvidia cards, so you are perfectly fine.  Even temps in the 80s are fine.  Anything above 90 could be an issue, but isn't that big of a deal.

Thank you! Will overclock it a bit and see that I can pull out of it

[MultiMigo]

14 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

those are very good temperatures for a blower style cooler! why do you have the fan at 100% tough? isn't it horribly loud like that?

It is loud haha, but I really don't mind it since I use headphones and a fan haha. 

[userzero]

1 minute ago, MultiMigo said:

Thank you! Will overclock it a bit and see that I can pull out of it

You'll appreciate just a tadge under 1400mhz on it stable. See how your memory is by doing very minute bumps though. Hopefully yours can manage more than I got out of it.

[MultiMigo]

13 minutes ago, userzero said:

I have the MSI verison of that card. The fans were too loud at 100% lol, I just let Afterburner decide that. Managed to get a serious clock speed bump out of it, but any more than a couple of mhz on the memory and it crashes. Cracking card for the money though.

Nice to know that it could OC a bit. Thanks!

[userzero]

1 minute ago, MultiMigo said:

It is loud haha, but I really don't mind it since I use headphones and a fan haha. 

Yeah same man. I put as many fans, and nice and big ones at that, in my case as poss. It only gets used for gaming and I always game with headphones so it's.. meh.

[MultiMigo]

4 minutes ago, RorzNZ said:

Thats pretty good. Reference coolers are usually in the 80s.

Thanks! Yeah, was surprised too!