I know I worry, a lot. I have two Galaxy 680s in SLI and before today I never saw temps above 65C. Today I played Far Cry 3 for the first time and temps actually hit 80C, even saw an 89C briefly. The strange thing is the fans never went above 42% This was with the fan in AUTO mode.
I switched to manual mode and set the fan to 60% but temps still stayed hot. Strangely the boost clock never throttled down, the boost clock stayed at 1188MHz (I don't overclock, but the card came with a boost clock of 1176MHz)
I run my cards with sync on and the other card stayed in the 60Cs, would that keep both cards from throttling back?
Here is my part of my GPU-Z log
GPU Core Clock [MHz] , GPU Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temp [°C] , Fan Speed (%)
1188.9 , 1502.3 , 81.0 , 61 ,
So I panicked a little and set fan speed manually to 95% The scary part is one card stayed between 70-71C while the other card was in the 60s. On my motherboard, a MSI P67A-GD65, the cards sit right next to each other. My CPU, i5-2500K even got up to 73C. I started to smell an electronic smell, not burning, but a noticable smell.
My brother was over and he said 'the max temp for your GPU is 98C, stop worrying' and we played like that for 3 hours.
Is this ok?
I switched to manual mode and set the fan to 60% but temps still stayed hot. Strangely the boost clock never throttled down, the boost clock stayed at 1188MHz (I don't overclock, but the card came with a boost clock of 1176MHz)
I run my cards with sync on and the other card stayed in the 60Cs, would that keep both cards from throttling back?
Here is my part of my GPU-Z log
GPU Core Clock [MHz] , GPU Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temp [°C] , Fan Speed (%)
1188.9 , 1502.3 , 81.0 , 61 ,
So I panicked a little and set fan speed manually to 95% The scary part is one card stayed between 70-71C while the other card was in the 60s. On my motherboard, a MSI P67A-GD65, the cards sit right next to each other. My CPU, i5-2500K even got up to 73C. I started to smell an electronic smell, not burning, but a noticable smell.
My brother was over and he said 'the max temp for your GPU is 98C, stop worrying' and we played like that for 3 hours.
Is this ok?