Good Overclocking Temperatures

[Kooshie]

Hello all,

I was curious to know what a good temperature would be for my Gigabyte r9 280(Non-x) 3gb Windforce edition whilst its overclocked...what are good temperatures that are safe and wont cause any damage? right now its about 50-60 degrees Celsius under load in gta5, dayz, csgo etc. (i have it overclocked at 1200MHz core clock (max overclock) and 1500MHz for memory clock(can go higher)

Thanks alot

 

[BSOD BSTD]

that's fine, you can go up to 80c at load on a GPU, (not CPU though!)

 

[Kooshie]

that's fine, you can go up to 80c at load on a GPU, (not CPU though!)

really?????80c??! wow, so should i stick around 70-75 to be extra safe?

 

[BSOD BSTD]

yes GPU's run HOT, hence why they are covered in fans. 70-75 will be extra safe. If you have a google of how to OC that particular GPU, you can get an idea of what sort of stable frequencies you can expect to hit.

 

[Anry]

Try furmark stress test and check the temps, it will you give temps on full gpu load.

 

[photonboy]

1) Modern GPU's will throttle to protect themselves
(That does not mean they will be stable however as there are other factors besides heat)

2) Overclocking ALWAYS wears out a computer chip quicker, especially if voltage is increased

3) NOISE may be an issue
(Upcoming DX12 games in particular may cause your graphics card to stay much hotter than normal. You may get noise similar to FURMARK. Why? It's because modern game code rarely uses all of the GPU's processing areas at the SAME TIME. DX12 changes that so it's going to be increasingly likely that DX12 games will cause the GPU to run hotter.)

4) Some games may CRASH when you overclock whereas some others may not

Summary:
So in general to your question, follow some online guides then overclock until NOISE or STABILITY becomes an issue.

Again, as to temperature that's simply going to vary by the game, and again the fans will simply throttle up or in a worst-case the GPU frequency will be forced lower to protect things.

SO unlike the old days without protection there is no "safe temperature" to aim for, at least not by you. The card does know this temperature though.

(Having said this you can RAISE the max temperature allowed for many modern graphics cards. I wouldn't do that if you can't maintain proper noise and stability already. It doesn't change anything else I've said. For example, for some cards with excellent cooling you might raise from 82degC to 87degC or whatever...

It should be noted that when the max temp was raised on some cards they actually got WORSE PERFORMANCE at times due to the way their thermal protection would manage things.)