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97C too hot for a 470?

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BallaTheFeared

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Will degradation occur if I run it at such a high temp?
 
Shouldn't you know this? 😛


If its a stripped version of the 480 GPU, then yes, it should be able to handle high temps. Something wierd with the fan speed though, it should be over 50% at those temps for sure.
 
Rvenger said:
Shouldn't you know this? 😛


If its a stripped version of the 480 GPU, then yes, it should be able to handle high temps. Something wierd with the fan speed though, it should be over 50% at those temps for sure.
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My experience has been at 35C load temp and below for the most part 🙂

Yeah it's the stripped GF100 die, I actually set the fan speed with a custom profile.

Aiming for silent on my "test bench" before I go to work making a custom box to house it.
 
Aren't your cards watercooled? If they are, they should not be hitting those temps unless your 3 cards are dumping so much power into the cooling system that your radiators can't keep up.
 
I thought I read somewhere that the drivers throttle the cards between 100C and 105C so at 97C you are probably facing intermittent throttling when the temps peak.
 
BallaTheFeared said:
My experience has been at 35C load temp and below for the most part 🙂

Yeah it's the stripped GF100 die, I actually set the fan speed with a custom profile.

Aiming for silent on my "test bench" before I go to work making a custom box to house it.
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Kick those fan speeds up, thats too much heat for a GPU at its age. Just get the temps below 90c and call it a day. Try 40-45% fan speed.
 
Wall Street said:
I thought I read somewhere that the drivers throttle the cards between 100C and 105C so at 97C you are probably facing intermittent throttling when the temps peak.
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Good to know thanks, will the clock speed drop to 405 then, or will usage just drop?

Any risk of damage to the core itself doing this? Nvidia says the max temp is 105C, but that doesn't really mean much other than the card will probably shut down as a safety measure once it gets that high.
 
If it stays at 97 degree C, im betting at some point that chip is dead.

Best if you keep cards from going above 90 degrees, or staying that for way to long.
 
At 99C your GPU will cause a rift in the time/space continuum, causing your PC to warp to a different universe. I'd advise against this because reasons.
 
The official thermal throttle threshold for GF100 is 105C, so technically that's fine. That said, the others are right in that that 97C is not a great place to be long-term even on GF100. Pick a fan curve that keeps the temperature under 90C in BF3 and you'd be better off, at least as long as the noise is manageable.
 
blackened23 said:
At 99C your GPU will cause a rift in the time/space continuum, causing your PC to warp to a different universe. I'd advise against this because reasons.
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+1 😀

But seriously, 97c is a bit on the high side for long term use. Try to keep it below 85c. Personally I would try to stay under 80c if I had that Fermi card.
 
ShadowVVL said:
same, but lately I have been hitting 71c with fan speed at 68 due to summer heat.

I would never run a gpu at 90c.
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I've had 12 6950's running at or near 90C, 24/7, in my bitcoin rigs since may of last year (a couple of cards actually get in the mid 90's) and they're all still kicking. That's like 7 years of playing games for 4 hours a day. Either 90C isn't dangerous by any stretch of the imagination, or I'm the luckiest sob on the planet.
 
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Max under load 97c on a GTX 470 that's honestly within spec for that caliber and make of card. In compression my old GTX 275 routinely hit 91c under max load for hundreds and hundreds of hrs spent gaming.
 
FWIW my 480's with 2 slots of space between them and a 120mm directly behind them hit about 91c under full load in BF3. thats with a fan ramp up to about 60%.
 
@ Balla, Looks good at 40%. That profile looks good. How quiet is it at 40%?
 
Rvenger said:
@ Balla, Looks good at 40%. That profile looks good. How quiet is it at 40%?
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About as quite as you can expect a slow spinning fan to be, my cpu fan is slightly louder. It's about 18 inches away from me though and currently on an open bench while I dial everything in (cpu/ram included).

At 36% it starts to get a "motor" profile going, before that I'd say it's pretty much silent. 40% the tone changes slightly, still no actual wind/fan noise other than probably the motor itself.

47% is as high as I'd desire to run it without another audio source such as music or a game/movie, without headphones of course. I'm pretty sensitive to fan noise ever since I went water and removed my rads from my room, once I obtained silence it's hard for me to have an unbiased perspective on fan noise it's all annoying.
 
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