Is my gpu running too hot?

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I noticed the rear of my tower was hot to the touch and began to worry. I just finished installing a new PSU (EVGA 500w) and a new new gpu (Radeon R7 260x 2g OC edition). I downloaded a temp checker and got these results

The only real hot part is the area around the PSU. Should I be worried?

My specs
windows 7 64bit
Motherboard: The N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II x4 640, 3.0Ghz
PSU: 500w
RAM: 12g
 
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It usually depends on the GPU how hot things can go, but that seems perfectly normal.
GPUs go quite considerably hotter than any other component in the system, they're designed for it. On a good after market version temps of around 50-70 under load are fairly normal.

You could try to improve case airflow if it bothers you. Not sure how much that would help things but it wouldn't hurt.

To give you an example, when the AMD 290x first launched with only the reference cooler, AMD were very hot (ahuehuehue) to tell people it's designed to stay at 95c under load for long periods of time. Which is did (That thing is a hair dryer).
Fortunately non-reference models brought that down a bit.

So yeah, it's somewhat normal.

Edit: Hang about, that is under load right? SpeedFan isn't listing anything under the GPU fan RPM section. Can you peak inside the case and make sure they're running?
 
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All fans are working, also I forgot to mention that a game was running in the background (Rust) which is at High quality, while i took the temperature readings.
 
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