Max Temp GPU?

[felix_h97]

I want to know what the safe temp to set thermal throttling on my Nvidia Geforce GTX 960M is?
On the website it does not say its max safe temp? It does for most cards, i.e the gtx 960 is 98(degrees)

Anyone know anything about this?
Thanks 🙂

 

[SkyNetRising]

Leave it as it is. You're gonna end up with dead laptop.
Laptops have very limited thermal cooling capacity.
Unless they are specially designed for that, they can't handle any overclocking.

 

[felix_h97]

Leave it as it is. You're gonna end up with dead laptop.
Laptops have very limited thermal cooling capacity.
Unless they are specially designed for that, they can't handle any overclocking.

Yeah but i spoke to ASUS as it is currently set to 82 degrees, which they said was too low and dont understand why the bios released has had it set to that. They said it should be fine thermal throttling around 92-95?

 

[17seconds]

Whoa, someone at Asus is confused. There are two temperature limits:

1) Maximum temperature, also called the thermal threshold. This is the absolute maximum temperature that your GPU can tolerate. This is the 98c value for the GTX 960. Above this temperature your GPU risks permanent damage. To be safe, consider 90c-91c to be the upper limit for your laptop GPU. You should never reach this temperature.

2) Temp Limit, which is part of the GPU's Turbo Boost algorithms. This is a target temperature that your card will seek to attain and maintain as a part of its normal operation. The card will warm up by increasing Turbo Boost clocks when below this temperature. At or above the Temp Limit, your card will cool itself off by reducing Turbo Boost clocks. For the GTX 960, this should default to 80c. It is a manually adjustable variable through Afterburner/PrecisionX as a part of the overall tweaking/overclocking process. If you adjust this variable upwards, you increase the Turbo Boost target temperature, but you also increase heat and noise. This may be okay on a well-ventilated desktop PC, but more risky on a laptop.

 

[felix_h97]

Whoa, someone at Asus is confused. There are two temperature limits:

1) Maximum temperature, also called the thermal threshold. This is the absolute maximum temperature that your GPU can tolerate. This is the 98c value for the GTX 960. Above this temperature your GPU risks permanent damage. To be safe, consider 90c-91c to be the upper limit for your laptop GPU. You should never reach this temperature.

2) Temp Limit, which is part of the GPU's Turbo Boost algorithms. This is a target temperature that your card will seek to attain and maintain as a part of its normal operation. The card will warm up by increasing Turbo Boost clocks when below this temperature. At or above the Temp Limit, your card will cool itself off by reducing Turbo Boost clocks. For the GTX 960, this should default to 80c. It is a manually adjustable variable through Afterburner/PrecisionX as a part of the overall tweaking/overclocking process. If you adjust this variable upwards, you increase the Turbo Boost target temperature, but you also increase heat and noise. This may be okay on a well-ventilated desktop PC, but more risky on a laptop.

Thats makes sense, to be honest when ever i play a game it always throttles so i'm trying to find a way of this not happening?

 

[ema21del9]

Whoa, someone at Asus is confused. There are two temperature limits:

1) Maximum temperature, also called the thermal threshold. This is the absolute maximum temperature that your GPU can tolerate. This is the 98c value for the GTX 960. Above this temperature your GPU risks permanent damage. To be safe, consider 90c-91c to be the upper limit for your laptop GPU. You should never reach this temperature.

2) Temp Limit, which is part of the GPU's Turbo Boost algorithms. This is a target temperature that your card will seek to attain and maintain as a part of its normal operation. The card will warm up by increasing Turbo Boost clocks when below this temperature. At or above the Temp Limit, your card will cool itself off by reducing Turbo Boost clocks. For the GTX 960, this should default to 80c. It is a manually adjustable variable through Afterburner/PrecisionX as a part of the overall tweaking/overclocking process. If you adjust this variable upwards, you increase the Turbo Boost target temperature, but you also increase heat and noise. This may be okay on a well-ventilated desktop PC, but more risky on a laptop.

Thats makes sense, to be honest when ever i play a game it always throttles so i'm trying to find a way of this not happening?

But what temps do you get when gaming?

 

[felix_h97]

Originally the bios had it set to 74degrees thermal throttle, I managed to find a beta bios for my laptop model which had it set to 82 degrees. I have not oc any components. So the highest it reaches is 82.

 

[17seconds]

By "throttle" do you mean that clock speeds are dropping below the standard base clock? Or do you mean that the GPU is hitting its Turbo Boost temperature target and is dialing back on its Turbo Boost clocks, back to the standard base clock?

One is normal and the other is not. If you're talking about your Turbo Boosts only, that's normal and to be expected with a laptop.

 

[felix_h97]

By "throttle" do you mean that clock speeds are dropping below the standard base clock? Or do you mean that the GPU is hitting its Turbo Boost temperature target and is dialing back on its Turbo Boost clocks, back to the standard base clock?

One is normal and the other is not. If you're talking about your Turbo Boosts only, that's normal and to be expected with a laptop.

I mean that the clock speeds are dropping below standard base clock, it should run at about 1100MHz but drops down to roughly 405MHz or sometimes 540Mhz.

 

[17seconds]

Ah okay, that is a problem if it happens during gaming situations. Maybe you are throttling due to heat, despite the relatively low temperatures.

Try to rule out driver problems by doing a clean install of the latest drivers. Afterwards, go to the Nvidia Control Panel and set the Power Management mode to"Optimal".

 

[felix_h97]

Ah okay, that is a problem if it happens during gaming situations. Maybe you are throttling due to heat, despite the relatively low temperatures.

Try to rule out driver problems by doing a clean install of the latest drivers. Afterwards, go to the Nvidia Control Panel and set the Power Management mode to"Optimal".

Yeah the issue is that my thermal thottle is set too low. i have already tried doing a a whole system refresh of windows 10. What i'm trying to work out, is how much higher i can set it and still be safe?

 

[17seconds]

What percentage are your fans running when your temperature is maxed out?

 

[felix_h97]

What percentage are your fans running when your temperature is maxed out?

i cant see it, the option to look at fan speed is greyed out.. i can hear them running but i dont know what speed. I have tried afterbruner, gpu z, cpu z and SpeedFan. I have also tried cleaning out my laptop with compressed air.
Thanks for all the help so far!