Is 70C safe for 1080Ti gaming long-term?

[donalgodon]

I have a 1080Ti SC 2 from EVGA and the software sucks horribly and is far worse than words can describe, so I want to run it with the default hardware/bios fan curve which puts my temps around 70C while gaming. Is this okay for long-term use, or would I be better off trying to squeeze maybe 5C less with another software? I'm trying to compromise for sound, but I don't want to do long-term harm to the hardware.

[Enderman]

Of course it's safe, unsafe is like 85C+

[dcgreen2k]

Yes, 70C is fine. I think the max temperature for Nvidia GPUs is around 90C.

[donalgodon]

So, the basic idea is that an additional 5C cooling isn't likely to make a difference long-term?

[Froody129]

9 hours ago, donalgodon said:

So, the basic idea is that an additional 5C cooling isn't likely to make a difference long-term?

Yes. You can turn up the fans on r try undervolting. I undervolt all my GPUs and it's really easy with Pascal

[i_build_nanosuits]

10 hours ago, donalgodon said:

I have a 1080Ti SC 2 from EVGA and the software sucks horribly and is far worse than words can describe, so I want to run it with the default hardware/bios fan curve which puts my temps around 70C while gaming. Is this okay for long-term use, or would I be better off trying to squeeze maybe 5C less with another software? I'm trying to compromise for sound, but I don't want to do long-term harm to the hardware.

you know you can always just install and use MSI afterburner instead right?

[i_build_nanosuits]

9 hours ago, donalgodon said:

So, the basic idea is that an additional 5C cooling isn't likely to make a difference long-term?

no it will not change anything at all.

[seon123]

5 minutes ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

no it will not change anything at all.

Pascal starts to reduce its clocks from 60C, apparently, according to Gamersnexus. So it might help a tiny bit with performance.

[i_build_nanosuits]

4 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Pascal starts to reduce its clocks from 60C, apparently, according to Gamersnexus. So it might help a tiny bit with performance.

i tought we we're talking about long term reliability...not performance.

Performance wise, personally i run at 92% power limit and push the core clock and memory clock a fair bit...that way the card runs cool at high sustained core clocks...

[seon123]

1 minute ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

i tought we we're talking about long term reliability...not performance.

Performance wise, personally i run at 92% power limit and push the core clock and memory clock a fair bit...that way the card runs cool at high sustained core clocks...

Ah, yes we are. I'm quite stupid, as you've hopefully noticed by now