Measuring GPU Temperature

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Greetings, I have received my gaming computer a couple of days ago, and I'm pretty happy with it (Right now, not a single error has happened).

But I'm a bit concerned on how much heat the GPU generates when under stress (in other words, playing games like Skyrim and any other graphic demanding game) because I honestly don't know, and not knowing something when the GPU might be frying his lifespan is not something I can go to sleep well with.

So I wanted to ask you guys what program can monitor your GPU while gaming or something that makes a report of your temperature after 1 hour of playing something, so I can provide the °C generated and then you guys can tell me if it's safe for the GPU to "WORK" (not idle) with that much °C.

Thanks for reading.
 
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you can run hwmonitor to check temperatures in real time. or coretemp for the cpu. there are other monitor tools too.

to simulate a workload you can run prime95 (for the cpu) and furmark (for the gpu) at the same time and see what temperatures each reaches.

there's almost never physical damage to the graphics/cpu bellow 80C, amd later cards are designed to work at 95C, i'm still worried whenever i see a component running over 70C but i'm overly conservative.
you can run hwmonitor to check temperatures in real time. or coretemp for the cpu. there are other monitor tools too.

to simulate a workload you can run prime95 (for the cpu) and furmark (for the gpu) at the same time and see what temperatures each reaches.

there's almost never physical damage to the graphics/cpu bellow 80C, amd later cards are designed to work at 95C, i'm still worried whenever i see a component running over 70C but i'm overly conservative.
 
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Just so you guys know, my GPU is:

XFX Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition DDR5 2GB

I know the Catalyst Control Center shows you the temp too, but after a while, it cools down, so I wanted to know the maximum °C reached at some point while gaming.

That "Furmark" can tell you about the maximum °C my GPU reaches while gaming?

Thanks.