I'm worried about my graphics card overheating

[Chadders101]

Apologies if i put this thread in the wrong place, im new to TH

I recently bought a Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 380 graphics card and I am very happy with its performance. However, my computer has a see-through case and I can see mid-game that the fans are running very slowly. When I take the case off and touch the card, it is extremely hot. My previous graphics card overheated and melted which is why I bought this one. This time I have not overclocked anything yet I am still worried about my current graphics card. Is there a way to customise the fan speed on my graphics card? When I bought the graphics card, I was told that the fans had sensors in which speed up when the card is hot and slow down when the card is cold. I just finished playing Planetside 2 and I don't think that everything is quite right because the card feels dangerously warm and the fans are hardly spinning. The temperature gauge on my computer is displaying 27.2 C at the time of typing this, but I don't know where this is being recorded from.

If anyone could help me sort this situation out, that would be brilliant.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Download MSI Afterburner and set a custom fan speed, and also you should monitor your temperatures and fan speeds and tell me what they are.

 

[jimmysmitty]

All modern GPUs have fan profiles to minimize noise. They typically will be very low until they hit a certain temperature.

My GTX 980Ti Strix from Asus has fans that will not even move unless the GPU is over 50c so some games wont even make my GPU fans spin up at all.

 

[Th3-Hunter333]

All modern GPUs have fan profiles to minimize noise. They typically will be very low until they hit a certain temperature.

My GTX 980Ti Strix from Asus has fans that will not even move unless the GPU is over 50c so some games wont even make my GPU fans spin up at all.

Yeah exactly as he said, most all of them i have seen are default setup to be very quiet

I own the msi gtx 970 golden edition and by default it does the same thing, wont even move until it breaks 50c

It just really comes down to whether noise bothers you or not honestly, my personally i like being able to overclock and my gpu and cpu be cold as ice under full load

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Same with my MSI R9 390, fans don't kick in until 60C.

 

[Chadders101]

All modern GPUs have fan profiles to minimize noise. They typically will be very low until they hit a certain temperature.

My GTX 980Ti Strix from Asus has fans that will not even move unless the GPU is over 50c so some games wont even make my GPU fans spin up at all.

Does this mean that i have nothing to worry about? After my last graphics card melted i have become very paranoid about heating. At what temperatures do graphics cards tend to start falling apart?

I had to replace my motherboard and Graphics card since i decided to overclock it 15%(I think it was 15%). Could you tell me some safety features that might improve performance while keeping my hardware below volcanic temperatures?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

If your card gets into the 90s I would start getting concerned. Most can run up to about 95C. I would personally like mine below 80 always.

 

[Chadders101]

If your card gets into the 90s I would start getting concerned. Most can run up to about 95C. I would personally like mine below 80 always.

Like i said before, i cant exactly tell where the heat displayed on my computer is coming from. I dont think it has anything to do with my graphics card. I don't think ill ever know what the exact hear of the graphics card is, all i know is that its hot to the touch and the fans aren't doing anything. What is the meltdown temperature for graphics cards? (Im not too keen on downloading software which edits this btw)

 

[madmatt30]

Keep mine below 75c always personally.

Just download MSI afterburner mate - you don't have to use it as anything other than a monitoring program if you don't want to.

 

[jimmysmitty]

In order to "melt" a GPU you would have to put it under some very high temperatures. Most are rated at 80-95c before they throttle.. It is very hard to melt a GPU because most of them have thermal protection built in, if they get too hot they throttle or shut down.