Damaging gpu temperatures?

[Energize]

I am so sick of the stock cooler fan noise on auto mode that I had the gpu fan set to 20% in the ccc at which point it was at around 50 degrees, however I forget to increase this when I started playing crysis today and after about 10mins I heard the fan go to 100%; when I check the ccc afterwards it said the temperature was 101 degrees. At what point does the gpu start to be damaged by high temperatures?

 

[Andrei23]

100C is the red zone, I would recommend trying to keep well below that by at leat 10-15C

 

[arc@css]

It varies. I wouldn't worry, they are designed to with stand higher temperatures even than that. Once a too high a temperature is reached the card will usually just power down, as it was designed to. I take it the card is still working?

 

[Tealc]

My 4890 used to do a similar thing. I'd have the fan set at 40% (the highest it could be and be quiet amongst my case/cpu hsf fans) and every now and then it would go whoosh. I later set a custom fan profile in ATI Tray Tools as the default ATI one was far too aggressive.

 

[drifting]

every 10C above 70C reduces longevity of electronic components by 50%. however graphics cards usually become out of date within 1-2 years so 90C is fine.