GPU is reaching 80 to 90 degrees when playing fallout 4?

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I5 4460
fbm 01 case (2 prebuilt case fans used right now)
r7 250x powercolor gpu (max temperature is 94 or 95 degrees)
ocz 650w ZT PSU

I believe my gpu is reaching 80 to 90 degrees due to it being put at 100 percent load correct? I'm not a hundred percent sure if its safe for it to reach that many degrees when put under load when playing fallout 4. I've heard that you can adjust the gpu fan and case fans in your computer with msi afterburner?<<Will that help in any way?
 
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when you use msi after burner in the game is the temp showing in us farrenhight or Celsius. if it in us o.f then the temp is fine. if it in celsius then no the card running to hot. the card should stay in the 50-60c range. if it hitting above 70c the card is cooking. turn the fans all they way up and make sure you have the newest video drivers. some of the older drivers had fan control issues. if the card still runs warm open the side of the computer see if the temps drop. make sure the pc has airflow.
 
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Yes, MSI Afterburner will help you if your fans don't already work on 100% and even if they don't and you max the percentage, you'll drop for max 10-15 degrees Celsius. Try cleaning your GPU and relocating it so it gets better airflow, maybe set all the fans in BIOS 70% RPM.
 
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Oddly enough when I play other games, the gpu doesn't reach up 90 degrees or 80 but again those are fairly mediumly intensive games or non intensive games

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So for my case fans, try increasing the rpm or speed for it on msi afterburner or go onto the bios and do that?
BTW I cannot move my gpu anywhere else, I have a mobo with one gpu slot only

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Oddly enough with my old setup (with 4 gbs of ram and an older pentium cpu), the r7 250x would still be running without any overheating when playing fallout 4 for several hours especially at 90 degrees or 80 degrees, <<Very odd, as of right now its not overheating yet at least...Also I play other games for several hours and my gpu doesn't overheat or reach 90 degrees at all (lol, dota, minecraft, fallout 3 and NV etc.) so I don't think its my thermal paste or else the same thing would be happening to those games too

@smorizio
So would msi afterburner allow me to turn up my case fan speed to cool my components or is it best to do it in the bios? Also I believe my case fans are 3 pins not 4 so not 100 percent sure if I will be able to control them fully

 
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Hi,

A GPU can take more heat than a CPU.

Is the computer suffering from it ?
I would not worry unless your are hitting 100 degree.
If the card is old, I would replace the thermal paste and download msi afterburner to see if you can speed them up a bit.
 
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the computer is not suffering much from it I believe, though I do get some frame drops around 30 fps and then back up 40 to 60 at times but I assume that's normal though.....

I do have msi afterburner, but what do you want me to speed up? gpu fans or case fans or both?
 
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Still busy with work, so the only thing I should do is use DDU to clean out the amd drivers and then that should be it correct?
 
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Update:
I found my game ran at 70 to 80 degrees when making the gpu fan speed run at 40 percent rather than 21 percent or 32. Seems like it never reached 90 degrees for now. I did this by changing this settings on the msi afterburner UI (http://imgur.com/KxHoU6r)

Unfortunately I am no expert with changing case fan speed with speedfan, so fill me in of how to change my case fan speeds.

I highly doubt that this is caused by the lack of airflow <<will post a pic of my interior build on this thread.
 
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Most any number of things make the heat rise. Does it crash because it's hot? Games that use a lot of Vram to process may create heat. Some games designs are just heaters. Sometimes corrupt games, programs or OS does. Need to repair games. To repair Windows, run 'chkdsk' in search> cmd >type in DOS box, chkdsk or, run 'scan now' in Local Disk (right click) >properties>tools tab. Maybe a defrag after that would be helpful, too. A virus, malicious software, spyware running under game programs can heat things up, too. An under performing fan. Bad thermo mud on the gpu. I live in Washington. I open a window and turn a fan at my computer. Course, I own an AMD gpu card and they are notorious heater boxes.
The R9 390 in my computer beams at 72c to 80c. But the funny thing I notice when I put my hand on the pipes/backplate, I can swear it's cooler than the temperatures it's posting. It doesn't crash because it's hot so I think I'm O.K.
 
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Nope, playing fallout 4 for an hour or two with 70-80 degrees without overheating or the system crashing.....

Corrupt os? I highly doubt it, if it was the corrupt os, the same thing would be happening in other games but it just seems to happen in f04....

I have never heard about a virus ever causing a computer to overheat, so I highly doubt it...But again no viruses on my computer

Defrag does not improve any cooling or heating in your system, it improves the hard drive only nothing else

It is possible that f04 is using my 1gb vram r7 250x gpu and causing it to heat up
 
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Nope, playing fallout 4 for an hour or two with 70-80 degrees without overheating or the system crashing.....

Corrupt os? I highly doubt it, if it was the corrupt os, the same thing would be happening in other games but it just seems to happen in f04....

I have never heard about a virus ever causing a computer to overheat, so I highly doubt it...But again no viruses on my computer

Defrag does not improve any cooling or heating in your system, it improves the hard drive only nothing else

It is possible that f04 is using my 1gb vram r7 250x gpu and causing it to heat up
 
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Minimum requirement for FallOut4 is a 2gb gpu card. If you're even playing it without crashes, your doing great.
Running ckdsk? It's a suggestion. Yes, a corrupt OS will generate heat. Your system is made to run programs with minimal amounts of corruption and until it exceeds it, it will work around corrupt portions if it finds it in the program. You may see artifacting in lines. It's still making it run. And as long as it's trying to run, it's creating heat. A corrupt program only gets worse and then it stops. Oh, it may not produce torturous amount of heat but it will add to the workload.
The O.S. responds differently to different games so not every game will stop, overheat or crash. Some games actually run cooler than others. That depends on how the game was configured by programmers. The larger map, the greater the detail the more memory and processing power it uses. Here, you've only got a 1 gb card and you say you're playing FO4. That's a compliment.
Yes, Viruses can heat your computer. Once it begins a download and packs your computer with malicious software, it can absorb all your processing power and slow your rig down. Viruses not only download information, but upload information to spread programs to infect other computers. Depending on what kind of virus it is, it can screw up hundreds of computers in a day. The more power your rig uses to compliment a virus, the more heat it will generate. So no, I wouldn't leave that out as a possibility.
Yes, defrag only helps the harddrive but for the lack of speed, why waste power slowing it down with a fragmented hdd? Your video card is using every bit of processing power since it's under the minimum requirement to run FO4.
But then again, you're not crashing.
If you want to see it all go away, get an Nvidia 970. Don't even mess with anything smaller.
 
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"Even if you're even playing it without crashes, you are doing great." Umm was that sentence finished, just asking

Nope no artifacting lines in my games at all...

I'm still not convinced that a corrupt os causes overheating....But I will research it up..Or verify it myself....if the viruses are causing my gpu temps to be high, then it should also be high in other video games that I play and not just fallout 4 itself Hence why i threw it out....I never touched anything related to the OS But I will check my disk just in case regardless....

If my 1gb vram gpu is causing it...Then why can this guy right here run fallout 4 with my exact card (different brand) with 50-60 degrees?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVAdtAu3UX8

Edit: Due to the lack of response from you, it just tells me that you know nothing about the stuff you are telling me and just spitting out crap, let this message sink in don't know don't post
Also people on this forum seem to hella disagree with you: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/547205-can-anyone-confirm-what-this-user-is-saying-to-me/#comment-7232160
 
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