Is There Something Wrong With My Gpu ?!

[MMR 9000]

Hi Guys

i've got sapphire 7970 ghz edition vapor-x

and its about 5 months since i bought it

i noticed a few days ago that the gpu is getting too much hot and to make sure i tested with

furmark with stabiltiy test on 1920×1080 with msaa×8 and i run for almost 20 minutes and it reached 79 degrees !!

and to make more sure i played batman arkham origins for about an hour and it reached 76 degrees

so i took it off and took of the cooler sink and cleaned it very well

and put it back again i noticed that the idle dropped from 40 to 35

and i retested with furmark on the same setting and after 22 minutes it hit the 77 degrees

so it didnt make any difference

so i began to worry about the gpu

and read more about the asic quality

and when i saw i was tottaly amazed it reached only 66%

so is there something bad with my gpu ??

and what is the highest safe temp for it ??

 

[Kari]

asic quality doesnt have anything to do with like life span or the heat damaging it or anything like that. It is used by amd to rate the chips at the factory, some chips are 'born' with higher quality and some worse. It takes into count things like transistor current leakage and other techy things, none of which really change at all during normal operation...

Temp wise you're fine as well, below 80C under full load is just fine. A bit warm but not anything to worry about.

 

[nukemaster]

With the stock cooler(AMD reference) the 7970 GHZ gets into the low 80s anyway. 70s for a high powered GPU is fine.

Hell my GTX 670 even gets into the low 80's with a heavy load.

You are good.

If you want it cooler, you may be able to use a more aggressive fan profile in something like MSI Afterburner.

 

[Shaun o]

It depends.

Are you letting the card auto adjust the fan speed.
Or have you set a manual speed setting of the fans?
To keep on top of the heat set the fan speeds higher.

I would not say 77c was bad if you were hammering it.

85c to 95c is the upper limit.

Should be ok.