Safe Tempature for 660 Ti?

[mac981]

Doing some stress tests on the 660 ti and my main concern was the GPU Temps. It's maxing at about 72 Celsius while playing Metro 2033. Is this too high? I could increase the fan speed to 65 but it sounds like a vacuum while I'm not gaming so i left it at 45 for fan speed.

 

[manofchalk]

In general (so CPU and GPU), 90C+ is dangerously hot. 80-90 is too hot, 70-80 is acceptable, with 60-70 being optimal. So the cards max temp under gaming load is 72C, its fine temp wise.

 

[mac981]

Does making the Cards fan too fast have any side effects to the card not including the fan?

 

[manofchalk]

Increasing the fan speed on a passively cooled card (so no fans, relies on convection for cooling) will have no effect.

Unless you are referring to a reference design card, which look like this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130809
Increasing the fan speed will increase cooling. That circular "hole" at the end is actually a blower fan. Their different to normal fans in that they create a higher air pressure, but are louder and dont cool as well, but have the benefit of ejecting hot air outside the case.

Increasing the fan speed wont have any negative side effects other than it will be louder.

 

[mac981]

Best answer selected by mac981.

 

[mac981]

Yeah that's exactly the card I have, set the fan to 60 and seems to be working well and it's not too loud, thanks!