Uhm.. 141.8 Fahrenheit Graphics Card Temp!?!?

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Drake1731

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So, I was looking at overclocking, so I downloaded MSI Afterburner, then Heaven Benchmarking, and I overclocked Core by +20 and fan by +25. In Heaven during the benchmark it said first 48 C and then went up to 61 by the end, I was just curious so I looked up the google converter and saw it was 141.8 F.. I was freaking out, I heard the safe limit was 80-85 F. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TI. I did +10 for core then +25 for fan and didnt pay any attention to the temp, tried +20 core and +25 fan. Am I doing something wrong?

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Electronics Temps

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"Yes, the safe thermal limit for electronics is less than your internal body temperature. If any electronic device does not feel cold to the touch, it is about to blow up!"

Not an accurate statement! Depends on the device and it's use. Some electonics need to be warmer to operate correctly (think Ovenized ocillators). Many components are often spec'd above 50 degrees C (think industrial and military specs). You need to check the data sheets....... typ 0- +40 degrees C for most commercial stuff, -20- +50/60 for industrial, -40- +70/80 for a lot of military stuff.

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Your machine is working fine, seriously. most people - I'm not saying ALL people, I'm saying MOST people - tend to use Celsius for reporting CPU/GPU temps, and yes I know a lot of us are here in the US and we are stubborn bastards that simply refuse to move to the Metric system like the majority of the rest of the world has since long ago. Whenever you go looking for info about CPU and GPU temps 99% of the time you'll find them being reported by people (and even companies) in Celsius regardless of where the person or company is located

Even Intel reports their Tjmax temperature variable in Celsius on their ARK CPU database pages - Tjmax (thermal junction max) is the maximum temp a given CPU is designed to operate at and if it reaches that temp it will trigger the CPU's thermal protection and shut it off without user intervention so the chances burning out a CPU these days is pretty nil - AMD uses a similar technology with their CPUs too.

As for GPUs, those do tend to run a bit hotter depending on the situation but I just did a quick search for some GeForce GTX 750 TI temperature measurements and most if not all the benchmarks done at various hardware review websites show about 66C as the temp at full load meaning the GPU is working at 100%.

So again, you're fine, it's designed to work at that kind of temp for extended periods of time if necessary. Since it's an MSI card if you're using Afterburner there should be a setting for Temp Limit and by default it's about 80-82C so way hotter than 66C which is a bit of headroom to work with.

Nothing to worry about as long as the fans are working and the monitoring aspects should keep that covered too.
 
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Your machine is working fine, seriously. most people - I'm not saying ALL people, I'm saying MOST people - tend to use Celsius for reporting CPU/GPU temps, and yes I know a lot of us are here in the US and we are stubborn bastards that simply refuse to move to the Metric system like the majority of the rest of the world has since long ago. Whenever you go looking for info about CPU and GPU temps 99% of the time you'll find them being reported by people (and even companies) in Celsius regardless of where the person or company is located

Even Intel reports their Tjmax temperature variable in Celsius on their ARK CPU database pages - Tjmax (thermal junction max) is the maximum temp a given CPU is designed to operate at and if it reaches that temp it will trigger the CPU's thermal protection and shut it off without user intervention so the chances burning out a CPU these days is pretty nil - AMD uses a similar technology with their CPUs too.

As for GPUs, those do tend to run a bit hotter depending on the situation but I just did a quick search for some GeForce GTX 750 TI temperature measurements and most if not all the benchmarks done at various hardware review websites show about 66C as the temp at full load meaning the GPU is working at 100%.

So again, you're fine, it's designed to work at that kind of temp for extended periods of time if necessary. Since it's an MSI card if you're using Afterburner there should be a setting for Temp Limit and by default it's about 80-82C so way hotter than 66C which is a bit of headroom to work with.

Nothing to worry about as long as the fans are working and the monitoring aspects should keep that covered too.


Thank you!
 

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GPUS run hotter than CPU's in general use.

typical CPU temp under 80% load is going to be around 50-60 C

GPU's will be about 15-20 C hotter and still run normally.



Side Note:

MSI AFterburner, does NOT have to be a MSI branded card to work.

I use MSI AB on my eVGA cards because Precision X sucks compared to the original RivaTuner plugin MSI Uses.

eVGA was sued by MSI when the author and writer of RivaTuner who is now employed by MSI discovered his code in their branded product after being asked and finally C&D Letter issued about it.

MSI will also work with AMD Products because RivaTuner worked with both.



broad is correct. unless you disabled BIOS Thermal limits ( impossible with most Intel CPU's but easily done with AMD ) that CPU will throttle its clock speeds at certain temp ranges and eventually reach a "Thermal Event" which is the critical TJMax temp that is nearly melting point for the CPU Core(s) components, where it simply issues a "HALT" command and shuts all operation down till the system is powered down and rebooted, which you would get a "Thermal Event" warning on the next boot during BIOS POST.
 

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here is two of my three two monitors showing MSI AB working with EVGA cards showed by GPU-Z
 

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