Overheating graphics card!!!

[siviprime]

Specs:
Intel Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz
MSI B85M-P32
HyperX 8GB DDR3 1866MHz
Sapphire R9 380 Dual-X Edition
Antec Neo Eco 620C

Whilst playing Black Ops 3 with my friend, my graphics card 'stopped responding' (crashed), restarted my monitor and then continued to work. At that time, the graphics card's fans were spinning crazy fast, I knew that the GPU was getting hot.

I tried a stress test on FurMark and after 15 minutes, the GPU had reached a max temperature of 88 degrees! I'm quite scared that I might burn out the die/silicon/whatever is powering it.

The CPU, when stress tested, reaches 58 degrees so the CPU isn't a problem.

The PC itself is in quite a cramped space, but I'm not too convinced that putting it somewhere else will drastically reduce temps. Any ideas? Thanks for your time.

 

[SPgamer007]

It shouldn't be going past 85c and that too a sapphire dual x, but furmark is very intensive stress testing program, better benchmark your GPU with something like unigine heaven, link : http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2205/unigine-heaven-dx11-benchmark-4-0/mirrors

Also Make sure GPU driver is latest.

 

[hdmark]

id monitor it while you were playing to see what temps you are getting during actual play

 

[siviprime]

Thanks for the quick replies. The GPU driver is the latest one (Crimson 16.1). I'll benchmark using Heaven then like you said, check the temps during gameplay.

 

[burgessanthony]

Furmark largely pointless. Won't see that heat in gaming and I've seen games crash an overclock where furnark has been fine. It also smashes power usage on R9 cards for some reason.

My guess is temps but monitor while gaming and see.

 

[siviprime]

I tried Unigine Heaven and it reported the GPU temperature as 0 degrees, so I'll try something else xD

UPDATE: Unigine Valley shows it as 174910 degrees. Wow.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Same thing happens with my R9 380. Just use Heaven to stress the card, use another program (MSI Afterburner for example) to measure temps.

 

[burgessanthony]

Valley and heaven don't read temps properly. Get afterburner, spend some time setting it up (you'll need rivatuner for overlay) and monitor temps.

 

[SPgamer007]

Well, check with MSI afterburner while playing BO 3 instead.

Remember Ambient temp and airflow system in the case affects the temp of GPU and other components, install additional fans if required.

 

[siviprime]

When trying Black Ops 3 benchmark, the max temp was 78 degrees. However, on Unigine Valley the GPU was running at 81 degrees. Is that OK?

 

[SPgamer007]

Slightly at higher side, i'd try to keep it under 75c, adding some more case fans gonna do probably.

Might also reapply thermal paste in GPU.

 

[siviprime]

Like I said, I might move the PC to a less cramped space, as there may be better airflow.