Worried..

[Chives]

Right I'm playing Napoleon Total war and Speed fan is reporting 59-65C and MSI afterburner is reporting temps of 70+ , My card is overclocked at the following : 805/1965/1040 , is this too high and which program do I trust?

Cheers

 

[Duran]

i hope you never buy a fermi card

 

[Chives]

i hope you never buy a fermi card

Very helpful reply

 

[RavenXXX2]

80c and below temps are fine, once it starts going over 80c try and get some better air cooling to the cards intake fan.

Trust MSI over speedfan.

 

[Stupot_]

Not high at all. I'm now hitting 85+ in an 8800GT (passive cooled).

 

[TheRealDeal]

Your temps are fine. Your card is probably designed to run with temps around 110 not that you would want this kind of temp.

 

[Randomface74]

From past experience, my own and others on the forum, I'd say that setting yourself a personal limit of 70C is a good idea to protect the memory on the card.

 

[Chives]

From past experience, my own and others on the forum, I'd say that setting yourself a personal limit of 70C is a good idea to protect the memory on the card.

Ok cheers
It's wierd , while playing the temperature just randomly dropped by exactly 10c and then started rising again.

 

[Marine-RX179]

As long as it doesn't go above 80C, I don't think you got anything to worry about. My 9800GTX+ (aka GTS250 before rebranding) max at 80C at load 100% GPU usuage when running Heaven Benchmark 1.0. Idle it is around 43C.

 

[Monkeynut]

Ok cheers
It's wierd , while playing the temperature just randomly dropped by exactly 10c and then started rising again.

Temperature sensors on cards aren't too reliable, they're usually within 5C but can fluctuate a bit and aren't 100% on target.

 

[q6600]

your temps are oc if you can just put your fan speen at 70 - 80 %

 

[Chives]

Anyone got anymore advice on this? With the recent hot weather in south wales , this system has been hitting highes of 75c.

 

[Rroff]

nVidia fan profiles are usually setup to stay fairly passive (low fan speeds) until the temperatures hit around 80C then they kick in hard, depending on the card the rated operating temp is usually around 76C with critical temps when it starts throttling or turns off around 100-105C.

The only problem with temps over 70C is it could be harder to get a stable overclock.

Personally I use rivatuner to modify the fan profile so that it kicks in gradually from when the card exceeds 55C which results in much better temps when the card is fully loaded.

 

[Marine-RX179]

Anyone got anymore advice on this? With the recent hot weather in south wales , this system has been hitting highes of 75c.

If you are a careful person, you could try removing graphic card cooler and clean out any dust that build up in the heatsink. If you want, you could try getting some Arctic Cooling MX-3 Thermal Compound and apply to the GPU (remove old thermal compound with rub alcohol first before that though). That might lower your temp by 5-10C...more if you are lucky.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=TH-002-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=27

 

[Kurisu Makise]

i get about 92c on first 4890 and 86c on second, nothing to worry about.

 

[sandeep]

Use MSI Afterburner's Fan Profiling, change the graph around so you can make sure your fan moves more air at whatever temp you want it at.

With fan profiles my 5850 never hits 70 on full load.

 

[AMG]

it should be fine, if it hits 100c start to worry...