Gpu can go over 100 degrees centigrade when playing games

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need to know which card (MSI 970 still leaves about 8 different models, and if it's a FE, therein lies the major problem), after that ...

1st thing to do is to check for dust in the GPU heat sink.
2nd thing to do is check the case inlet filters, these must be cleaned and kept clean.
3rd thing I'd do is add a case fan on the side panel blowing cool air at the card
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Rule of thumb is one 120mm case fans (1250 rpm) for each 50 -75 watts (at stock settings, 90 CPU, 200GFX, 35 MoBo, 40 everything else) @ 365 watts ~ 5 fans ... say 4 if ya want to 1500 - 1800 rpm

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first off its celsius. douche bag aside your GPU might be clogged up with dust, in that case, you might need to spray it out with compressed air, the software that your using to measure your temps could also outdated, or the games that your playing could be too challenging for your card (1 and 2 are probably more probable)
 

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its never a constant 100 degrees celsius i was just playing players unknown battlegrounds to check on temps and seen that it spikes to 102 a couple of times apart from the spikes it was at 80-90+ degrees celsius. would you consider msi afterburner to be outdated?

 

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ok msi afterburner is not outdated but you could consider some of the other things i mentioned
 
It's always a hard question when you don't name the GPU.

When AMD came out with the 2xx series, they did an AMA w/ THG and said that "95C is no problem ".

nVidia cards start throttling at 82C and their maximum temp is in the low 90s, varying a bit by model.

Now in the past, have had folks post about 'reaching 100" and then realized that some toime back they had set the utlity to read in F instead of C.

Potential Causes:

1. Utility is misreporting / sensor gone bonky....try another utility.

2. Card clogged w/ dust, remove plastic shroud and clean

3. Inadequate case fans ... rule of thumb for quite PC ... one 120mm fan for each 50 - 75 watts. Figure 90 - 120 watts for (stock - OC'd) 6600k / 7600k CPU and 250 - 300 watts for a high end nVidia GFX card. Solution add more case cooling.

4. Poorly designed case air flow. Inlet fans are restricted by air filters which are oft left clogged with dust. If you have 6 fans, a satisfactpry. design would be say 3 in and 2 out. many folks however buy a case w/ 2 in and 1 out and then add 2 or 3 exhaust fans to the top because "hot air rises" (it doesn't when you sitting under ceiling fan). So with 4 or 5 out and 2 in under the 'hot air rises' method, you more than 3 times air being sucked out of the case than blowing in. This results in air being sucked in thru rear case grilles. And what's back there ? Those grilles are located adjacent to your PSU and GFX card exhaust and all the hot exhaust air from the PSU / GFX card gets sucked right back into the case.

Those top fans did remove the heat from that 90 watt TDP CPU, and in its place, they sucked in all that heat from the 250 watts GFX card and 650 watts PSU, not exactly a good trade, especially when considering the fact that that hot air being sucked in thru rear unfiltered grilles is bringing in bunch of dust along with it. Solution, set case up w/ 1.5 times more fans blowing in than out.
 

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specs: INTEL® Core™ i5-6600K Quad Core 3.50 GHz 6MB Cache LGA1151
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Fan
MSI Z170A PC MATE INTEL Z170 Chipset
Cooler Master 600 Watts B600 B2 Gaming Power Supply
MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GB 16X PCIe 3.0 Video Card
 
The specs really don't add anything to the table. MSI 970 ius like telling me you have a blue chevy, to give you any technical info, one would need the model and engine size. The MSI Gaming X is an extraordinary card with superb cooling ... and overclocked shows a running temp under load about 2/3 of what you are reporting @ 66C

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_970_Gaming/31.html

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That would be a very different thing than a MSO 970 FE which is a reference card and exceeds the throttling poing when run right outta the box

And while the MoBo, PSu, CPU cooler, CPU info is valuable for troubleshooting other problems, they don't have relevance to the issue of GFX card temps

What is case (Make and model) ?
What model, how many and in which direction are fans installed ?

Have you tried a different utility ?
Have you made sure its reading in C not F ?
Have you checked for dust ?
 

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the case is a Cooler Master N300 Mid-Tower Gaming Case with the fans that it came with, 2 in the front 1 in the back excluding the heat sink fan
its in *C
 
Still...

need to know which card (MSI 970 still leaves about 8 different models, and if it's a FE, therein lies the major problem), after that ...

1st thing to do is to check for dust in the GPU heat sink.
2nd thing to do is check the case inlet filters, these must be cleaned and kept clean.
3rd thing I'd do is add a case fan on the side panel blowing cool air at the card
+ 20% off w/ promo code PHMAR2FAN, ends 3/31
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835709036

Rule of thumb is one 120mm case fans (1250 rpm) for each 50 -75 watts (at stock settings, 90 CPU, 200GFX, 35 MoBo, 40 everything else) @ 365 watts ~ 5 fans ... say 4 if ya want to 1500 - 1800 rpm

 
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