pc gaming gpu temps and cpu temps

[11blackjack11]

i hope i can get good answers from here concerning pc gaming and temperatures
i wanted to know what a normal-average temperature would be good at for pc gaming
my rig is air cooled by the way and i run a SLI config 1 gpu would run about 80c and the other card would run at 72c and most importantly the cpu itself runs at 55c normally for the cpu with the temp its running at 55c im playing a demanding game with the settings all maxed out games like metro last light and metro 2033 all my pc specs well be listed down below i hope i get a good answer from this forum thanks

PC specs

motherboard
sabertooth X79

ram memory
corsair dominator platinum 16gb 1600 MHs

SSD
Crucial MX200 500GB

harddrive
Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200 rpm

video card
EVGA GTX980 FTW ACX 2.0 4GB SLI

CPU proccessor
intel core I7 4930K

power supply
corsair 1300EVGA supernova 80 gold plus

cpu cooler
Arctic Cooling Freezer i11 74.0 CFM CPU Cooler

case
Cooler Master Storm Stryker (White) ATX Full Tower Case

 

[MarkW]

Idle temps for a CPU should normally be 25c to 35c range. Same for a GPU. Ambient temps will affect these, so if the room gets 10c hotter, expect the processor temps to go up as well.

When playing games, you would like to see the CPU temps stay below 65c to 70c. If its getting higher than that, and you have a stock CPU cooler, consider getting a third party cooler.

Your motherboard is normally what increases the speed of the CPU cooling fan as the temps go up. Having a third party cooler normally means you have a bigger cooling block and a better fan. But sometimes, if you get something like the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO cooler, and you want it to be even cooler than what it gets to, you can buy a Noctua fan (NF-F12 fan) and swap it in for the Cooler Master fan, and it will push more air though it. There is also a second bracket for connecting a second fan to the cooler block on that 212 cooler. So you could have one fan pushing air into the cooler block, and a second fan sucking warm air out of it.

GPU temps can go a bit higher than that, but I still like to try and keep my GPU in the 65c range, and generally, by using something like MSI Afterburner, and creating a fan curve that will adjust the fans based on temps, you can achieve that. I have set my fan profile to be:

40% at 45c
50% at 60c
65% at 70c
70% at 75c
80% at 80c
100% at 85c.

That gets the fans started right after the GPU starts heating up, and as long as the temps keep climbing, it will keep increasing the fan speeds. If the temps are going out of the range we want them in, you will hear them, and that will be your warning that something is wrong. But that should not happen unless a fan or two has died.

 

[11blackjack11]

thanks for pointing some of these stuff out i noticed an hour into gameplay my cpu temp went up to 60c i still got stock fans in my rig and for the cpu cooler still got stock fans in there the Noctua fans (NF-F12 fan) were my first choice again i was thinking of watercooling my cpu but i got paranoid i might damage something due to those leaks! but i just might water cool my cpu enyways...

 

[velo3100]

The cpu temp is good but the gpu temps are quite high but normal for high end gaming. You can always get a better cooling system to reduce the temps.

 

[11blackjack11]

The cpu temp is good but the gpu temps are quite high but normal for high end gaming. You can always get a better cooling system to reduce the temps.

yeah i didnt like the temps for my gpu so i manually set them up to 50% while gaming i get around 50-67 on one of my gpu's and 30-40 on my other one....yeah..im gonna switch out my stock fans for now im jus gonna leave the cpu fan running full blast untill than the temps i get for my cpu now are around 40-50 while gaming on max settings...

 

[MarkW]

The stock fans are fine. You just need to change the cooling curve to what I showed.

Video cards get shipped with fans set to almost never come on until its too late. These companies have gotten paranoid about bad reviews due to noisy fans, and some people will return any device that makes a sound they can hear. So the cards go out in silent mode pretty much, and we have to change the cooling curve back to something useful.