GeForce GT 430 1GB What Should Be a Safe Temperature?

Hellboy6066

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i have another question on this. when i play arma 3 on high it goes up to 47 degrees celsius. and when i play black ops 2 on low it goes up to 47 degrees celsius. i want to know why. the temperature increase doesnt change if i play on low or high. it always goes up to 47 degrees celsius. then increase to 48 after about 1 hour of gaming.

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I overclocked my GPU a few weeks back and now when its running on 100% it goes up to about 47 degrees celsius. i don't know what is a safe temperature for this type of graphics card. most of the time i play black ops 2 and payday so thats when it reaches those temp. when its idle/not playing games its at about 30 degrees celsius.
i overclocked it to:
Core Clock:815 MHZ
Shader Clock: 1630MHZ
Memory Clock: 815MHZ
and the fan is running at 80% when im playing games. but that doesn't seem to cool it down. usually it runs at about 30% when im not playing.
 

Hellboy6066

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are you sure? also when i play arma 3 lite it still at 47c, im really scared cause i broke my last pc by over clocking the cpu
 

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Where are you measuring your temperature?

Yeah 47 is really low. How did you break your last pc by overclocking?
 

Hellboy6066

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im using MSI Afterburner to overclock the GPU and monitor the temperature. i overclocked my last pc a bit too much. i done this when i was 11 years old and the thing fried or something.

 

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You should be fine then, thats really low temp. Worst case you fry the graphics card, which to be fair, isnt a very good card anyway so you could replace it for not much money.
 

Hellboy6066

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i really dont want to fry this graphics card. if i had money i wouldn't have bought this graphics card in the first place.
 

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If it frys, I've got an old 8800gtx you can have for free. :)
 

Hellboy6066

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thanks lol, but what is a safe temperature for my gpu?

 

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See here:
http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-430/specifications

Max GPU temperature is 98'c

I would keep it below 85.
 

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thank you so much.