All I wanted to know was the maximum safe temperature :'(

  • Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    85°C is usually the limit for longevity. 100°C should cause most processors to throttle back. I haven’t seen my RTX 3060 get much above 70°C

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      10 days ago

      No offence, but this is useless advice and exactly the reason why I wanted official data. “Usually”s and “Shoulds” don’t help. Especially for a completely different graphics card.

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        10 days ago

        The values they gave are typical for most electronics of this nature,
        many things are different between different cards, but they’re built using the same materials and components with the same limitations

    • I foolishly bought one of the first multi-GPU cards, the HD4870X2 (I think Radeon?). Apart from almost no game using two GPUs and most just straight up not working, that thing ran hot like a smelter. I got that thing regularly over 105°C, and around 90°C seemed like it’s normal working temperature. Not overclocked, still lasted almost two years. Which, back then, was when you’re GPU was outdated anyways. I love that I can still play almost everything I want with a 2080 nowadays.

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        10 days ago

        Pretty sad that the dual/tripple/quadruple GPU thing was never made feasable :-( Now we have one GPU that’s the size of an ACU.