Normal temperature while gaming?

xreva

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Hi, I have an EVGA Nvidia 670 2gb. I've had it for two and a half years now.

It gets really hot and always has. I break 80c in just about every game, unless it's old or not demanding at all. I'm playing Hard Reset right now on max graphics - a 4 year old game. My GPU is constantly between 80-85c. I've seen it break 90c before, but very rarely. It stays between 80c-85c a lot. Games such as Chivalry, TF2, LoL, etc. it stays below 60.

My CPU is fine -- never seen it break 55c, even when my gpu is this hot.

So... is this fine? I've googled and looked on these forums as well as talked to people - the consensus seems to be 60-75c is normal. Does this mean my GPU runs extraordinarily hot? If so -- what can I do outside of watercooling to bring the temps down?

I don't notice performance issues due to temperatures. Even when my GPU gets 80c or above, I still can break 60 fps (obviously not all the time in newer games). I'm just more concerned about the gpu failing before it should due to high temps.
 

xreva

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I do need to replace the thermal paste. But I've disassembled the gpu to dust it out and dusted out my PC many times, and yet the temps still stay this high. Would replacing thermal paste really help if disassembling the gpu to clean it out didn't eve really do anything? I'm starting to think this specific GPU just runs really hot.
 
If it has dried up, it doesn't help with the heat transfer but hinders it. You can't really tell the state of the thermal paste by just looking at the graphics card. It degrades over time so it's better to replace it before trying to replace the card or anything like that that costs A LOT.
 

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How can I change this? I've never really bothered with changing things in the bios.



Very true, I guess it's worth a shot, I have some extra thermal paste from my cpu heatsink.