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[hobblygobbly]

It's fine. I personally have the MSI 970 4G and I haven't seen it go above 65c under load, my older cards where I had dual Gainward 580s would under load reach upper 80s and be just fine.

 

[23qwerty]

my Asus 970 strix is overclocked to hell and never gets over 70 degrees at max load

 

[Intru]

I have the same card. The fan profile is set up by default so that the card will pretty much always be 80C in order to stay relatively quiet. If it's passing 80 there might be an issue.

 

[holygeesus]

While it is perfectly within operating temps, 80c is where I personally would look at changing the custom fan profile for the card. I have a massively overclocked 980ti that never goes above 75c, but it takes an aggressive fan profile to keep it even that cool. Pretty much %=C at that point i.e. 75% fan

 

[johancruijff]

Back in the day my 4850 ran at that most of the time. It survived a very long time and actually lived until replacement.

Ha!

My brother is still using my old sapphire 4850

8 years and not a single hesitation

 

[ZOONAMI]

While it is perfectly within operating temps, 80c is where I personally would look at changing the custom fan profile for the card. I have a massively overclocked 980ti that never goes above 75c, but it takes an aggressive fan profile to keep it even that cool. Pretty much %=C at that point i.e. 75% fan

Yep, that's pretty much what my fan profile is. I do 100% at 83 though as that is the throttling point for maxwell iirc. If you don't change the profile you will hit the throttle mark in some games and benchmarks.

 

[Prophet Steve]

It is okay, I'd prefer a few degrees under. Unless that is the very top it reaches.

 

[Stimpack]

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I've heard Nvidias tend to run hot, but running that high sounds like it will shorten the life of the card significantly.

I can't say for sure though, as I've only ever run AMD.

You've got that the other way around. AMD typically runs hot, because of the significantly higher power consumption. The guy who said 80c isn't OK is incorrect. It is fine. It's not great, but it's fine.

 

[Durante]

Umh, now I don't really know if I should create a specific fan setup or not.
I'm basically in the same situation I was before opening this thread.
What do you suggest, Durante? I should leave all as it is now?

Yes, everything is fine.

If you don't mind more noise then you can set your fan profile to start getting more aggressive at, say, 75°. But personally, I have mine set up like this:

 

[holygeesus]

Yep, that's pretty much what my fan profile is. I do 100% at 83 though as that is the throttling point for maxwell iirc. If you don't change the profile you will hit the throttle mark in some games and benchmarks.

Yeah I actually set my 100% at 80c as I have some kind of mental reluctance to let the card hit that temp. I have a decent Fractal case, and even with an aggressive fan curve I can't hear it while gaming. Even with audio muted, my PC runs quieter than my PS4 so I'm happy enough.

 

[Ludens]

Ok, I created a very basic profile (50c, 50% fan speed, 70c/70%), I hope it will help.
I also capped Hitman to 30 fps, since I have all maxed out including v-sync on and it seems I can't get stave 60 fps, so it's pretty useless leaving it uncapped.
Tomorrow I'll test to see if this help.
Anyway I read in and there since I was a bit worried, and it seems pretty much all Zotac dual (the model I have) reach easily 80c, but they won't go beyond that.
Also I'm pretty sure the Zotac is one of those cards affected by coil whine, because when fans start spinning, man, I can't stand them.

 

[protomouse]

^ Yeah, coil whine on the Zotac is very real. Really only the bad thing I have to say about that card though.

 

[Ludens]

^ Yeah, coil whine on the Zotac is very real. Really only the bad thing I have to say about that card though.

Many reviews also state how poor the stock fan curve is:

http://www.techporn.ph/zotac-geforce-gtx-970-review/

I hope the changes I did with MSI will serve the purpose..I mean, with 80c the stock fans are on 48% for me.

 

[UnrealEck]

Yes. The maximum is something like 90 celcius I think.

 

[Diablohead]

Pfft, my 295 was hitting 100c at full load. The good old days when GPUs had ridiculously high max temps.

my 260 at one point would always go over 100 and I swear I could smell something cooking, so I had to start using a fan controller until I replaced it with the now current 950.

 

[dmr87]

Not optimal but it's fine, personally I try to stay at or just above 80 as a maximum.

 

[Alebrije]

Does older cards generated more heat?I mean ones from 90s , 2000.

Or has the industry advanced on lower heat cards compared to the graphic power they have ?

 

[Ludens]

Well, I just tried Hitman now, and temp doesn't lower even with custom fan speed.
I mean, I can get 2c less, with Hitman reaching 78c and fans over 77%, but with 50% or so fan speed I usually got up to 80c, I don't know if it's worth at this point.

 

[Langdon Alger]

My 970 gets above 80 Celsius frequently. But I have a small Alienware X51 case, so that probably heats things up.

 

[Ludens]

So, sorry for the other post, but I want update on how I managed to solve the situation. Basically I uninstalled MSI Afterburner and I downloaded Zotac Firestorm.
I selected 65c as targeting temperature, leaving all the other settings untouched and putting fan on auto (for some strange reason when I save my profile, this setting reverts back to manual, so I managed to set it on auto by editing the .cfg file).
I just played for one hour with Hitman, max setting, no frame cap, and...it worked.
The maximum temp I got was 66c, much better than 80c I had yesterday.
The only bad thing is everytime I start Win 10, I need to manually validate the message "This setting can make your GPU unstable" or something like that, and also granting access to the software on Win 10 (for some reasons MSI can pass the manual validation, but Firestorm can't?).