Pascal Temps & Your Comfort Zone.

keasy · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:05

I'm running a 1070 Gigabyte G1 Gaming Windforce and just hit 76 degrees celsius tops when playing War Thunder.

Comfortable with that temperature I am not! I'm not worried about it, just not so easy with it.

What's your temp limit before you start to feel uncomfortable with it ?
I don't mean the guidelines limits but when you start to think it's too close for comfort.

JediFragger · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:09

82C, top card

SLi is a biiiiiiitch, but I'm more than happy with that temp as no throttling (and better than my old Ti's tbh) :cool:

keasy · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:11

Strewth,
maybe I'm just a stress monkey!

JediFragger · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:14

keasy said:
Strewth,
maybe I'm just a stress monkey!

Yup, just enjoy the card man and look forward to those lower winter temps :cool:

Rroff · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:20

Default temperature target is 80C for Pascal IIRC so anything under that isn't a problem at all.

80C is about the point I start to get worried (though a lot of modern electronics are rated for higher) as that is about the point after which the materials involved start to suffer thermal degradation at a significantly faster rates the further you go above 80C - even if you are talking mean life expectancy still in the range of 5+ years.

For instance some regulators are rated for like 11.5 years of constant use at upto 80C but that drops to like 4.5 years at 90C and a mere 200 days at 125 or 150C (or something like that).

EDIT: With my Palit (pretty basic card) it hits about 76C in most stuff and levels off (with higher fan speed) at 78-79C in some more intensive games (fan spinning up more as it approaches the 80C temp target) - with a slightly more aggressive fan profile it holds at 76C pretty much without really making any extra noise - the default curve is biased for quiet.

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:40

My 1070 amp extreme barely ever goes above 60 degrees on full load.

keasy · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:49

Jono8 said:
My 1070 amp extreme barely ever goes above 60 degrees on full load.

What's your case, cooling solutions etc?

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 19:52

keasy said:
What's your case, cooling solutions etc?

NZXT Phantom 630 (quite a big case) with a lot of large fans everywhere.

It is just sitting on its own in quite a large space and the cooling is generally very good in the case so it maxes out in the low 60's. This is with a 36% fan on the card i think (not at my PC now) which is still pretty much silent fortunately.

NirK · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:03

Jono8 said:
NZXT Phantom 630 (quite a big case) with a lot of large fans everywhere.

It is just sitting on its own in quite a large space and the cooling is generally very good in the case so it maxes out in the low 60's. This is with a 36% fan on the card i think (not at my PC now) which is still pretty much silent fortunately.

Barely ever goes above 60 degrees on full load at 36% fan..

hmmmm... what is the fan RPM at 36%?

Rroff · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:04

Jono8 said:
NZXT Phantom 630 (quite a big case) with a lot of large fans everywhere.

It is just sitting on its own in quite a large space and the cooling is generally very good in the case so it maxes out in the low 60's. This is with a 36% fan on the card i think (not at my PC now) which is still pretty much silent fortunately.

Over those case fans

NirK said:
Barely ever goes above 60 degrees on full load at 36% fan..

hmmmm... what is the fan RPM at 36%?

My 780GHZ edition with the big chunk of copper on there and backplate, etc. rarely got out of the upper 60s especially in cooler weather where it would be in the mid to low 60s in a lot of cases - helped by the 540 Air case it was in. I suspect the same is probably true of any 1070 with the equivalent kind of cooling.

thefogo · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:07

My Palit 1070 runs in the high 60s and is super quiet so I'm happy with it.
The coil whine however...

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:08

Rroff said:
Over those case fans

Which are also pretty much silent.

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:10

NirK said:
Barely ever goes above 60 degrees on full load at 36% fan..

hmmmm... what is the fan RPM at 36%?

Couldn't tell you as im not at my PC but will let you know later when i am home.

The AMP Extreme heatsink is colossal by the way! I am surprised it doesn't run even cooler.

You will find most with the AMP Extreme are barely getting over 60 at load. It is probably the coolest running card of the lot ( and as a result the largest)

NirK · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:17

Maybe but just irritates me a bit when people exagerate or give best case scenario etc. Maybe your 1070 does run at 60c I don't know, its definitely a big cooler and the 1070 will run cooler than a 1080 etc. Also what is the fan RPM at 37%?

Just looked at 1080 amp extreme review and it says 73c temps... so maybe your 60c is a bit of best case scenario. I don't think the 1070 runs 13c cooler than 1080 not really looked at the 1070 reviews much.

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:18

NirK said:
Maybe but just irritates me a bit when people exagerate or give best case scenario etc. but maybe your 1070 does run at 60c I don't know, its definitely a big cooler and the 1070 will run cooler than a 1080 etc.

No exaggeration at all. Pretty sure other 1070 AMP Extreme owners can attest to this.

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:20

Note this is at an ambient of 36 degrees and the guy still got loads of only 68 degrees in a closed case.

"Temperature Observation With the 3DMark Ultra benchmark doing the runs, the automatic fan control did not cross 38%. On load with manual overclocks, the temperature stayed under 68 degrees celcius. This is with the closed-case ambient temperature of 36 degrees celcius."

http://www.hardwarebbq.com/zotac-gtx-1070-amp-extreme-edition-gpu-review/12/

The ambient temps for me have been more like 20-25 degrees over the last month.

NirK · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:22

Ok well sounds good then, but surely on a hot day etc. it will go over 70c? I don't know what 37% is though... it says in the 1080 review 1100rpm, in which case 60c seems a bit optimistic.

Jono8 · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:23

NirK said:
Ok well sounds good then, but surely on a hot day etc. it will go over 70c? I don't know what 37% is though... it could be 2500rpm... in which case it could be 60c, or it could be 1000rpm, in which case 60c seems a bit optimistic.

^See the link - even at 36 degree ambient with a manual overclock that review only hit 68 degrees in a closed case!

NirK · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:27

Jono8 said:
^See the link - even at 36 degree ambient with a manual overclock that review only hit 68 degrees in a closed case!

Hm looks like the 1070 runs 5c lower than 1080 then, I did not know that..

Looks good though a GPU at 60c is very low for anything with 980ti / 1070 performance. I think the RX480 probably runs hotter than that...

mm just looked and the RX480 gaming X has temps of 73c... So a 1070 at ~60c is very good. Most 1080 will run at ~70c with higher RPM fans as well.

NirK · 17 Sep 2016 at 20:39

On the topic of the thread, I would say anything up to 75c is ok, under 70c is good, and under 65c is very good. Obviously on watercooling this is different. over 70-75c I would rather increase fans for more noise but lower temp.