Is this too much usage?

[FixupSellon]

I got up gpu-z to check my usage as never thought about it before until I read the suggestion to someone on here earlier..

I have taken pics of the whole setup to show what menus I was on followed by a close up of the readings for those moments..









I do have fraps running if that makes any difference whatsoever and while these shots were in game, when it was loading(crappy internet so loaded for what seemed an age lol) it was reading 99% usage and 1017 vram used, my gpu is overclocked a little.

Now my total system memory is around the 1800, so I don't know if that is taken in to account..

I know BF4 uses a lot of memory and with my internet and fraps on I won't ever have a steady frame rate anyways, but I basically wanted to know if this was too much usage??

Other games I play shouldn't be as demanding nor do I constantly play games full stop, but I'm curious about the life of the card if I did.

 

[Uncle Petey]

99%! Jesus... 1% more and it could explode!

j/k You're all good. 99/100% is what you want to see. It means your card is being used to it's full potential.

 

[Seanspeed]

As long as your temps are good, you're fine.

 

[FixupSellon]

ah good to know thanks for that , im not on the game now just kodi, but the temps never touched 60% just the 59 you see..

begs the question, if i wanted to overclock it more that would still be safe to do so just expect a raise in temps and TDP?.

 

[Uncle Petey]

Yep.

 

[FixupSellon]

thats good to know, mean i probably wont push it more while i got my vs350 lol, but it be cool to see what this card can do before i replace it