Accidently ran my GPU at 85C, am I safe?

[Guest]

I accidently set my fans too low on MSI Afterburner only to realize after 3 hours of playing BF4. The temps were around 82C the whole time and it maxed at 85C. Will my graphics card now be damaged in anyway?

 

[enemy1g]

Your GPU should be fine, they are rated to handle heat at a fair amount higher than what you were playing at.

 

[Onus]

You should be fine. Though that's warmer than most people care for, my understanding is that GPUs can typically handle at least 90C.

 

[dfryda]

Your card should still be ok, however you might have shortened its life span a bit. Newer GPU's have safe temps that can go as high as 115 to 120c, so if you have a newer card, I wouldn't lose any sleep!

 

[InvalidError]

If your card got damaged, you would know since they tend to either lock up or cause the PC to reboot when they get pushed beyond their limits. High temperatures are not ideal but rarely permanently harm semiconductors until you get in the 90s or even 100s.

 

[Guest]

Oh god, i just realizd the max temp was 95!

 

[Guest]

I was playing BF4 for hours at 95C 🙁

 

[Onus]

If the card isn't artifacting, most likely no harm was done.

 

[coozie7]

Not much of a problem, even at 95C it's safe enough, if the temperature gets TOO high, the card will automatically throttle by slowing itself down and you'd see that.
Just don't do it again or you'll be reporting to the principals office for detention. 😉

 

[Guest]

Not much of a problem, even at 95C it's safe enough, if the temperature gets TOO high, the card will automatically throttle by slowing itself down and you'd see that.
Just don't do it again or you'll be reporting to the principals office for detention. 😉

Would the BIOS override any manual settings or driver settings then? If so I feel safer 😛

 

[coozie7]

Apart from throttling I don't think the BIOS will override any manual settings you choose, either from within the drivers or through a third party tuning software like Afterburner.