Will runing fans 60 when gaming shorten the life of my fans?

[Jackie Coogan]

I recently added second card too my rig. It works great only one problem, the heat. My first card had temputures as high as 81 C° and my second at 75 C°. Witch is a little high for my taste. So I decided too up the fan speed. I started runing it at 60 (only when gaming). And worked wonderds, my first card started too run at 75 C° and my second at 60 C°.But I heard that runing a gpu fan at full speed will shorten it´s life. Will this apply if run it at 60 (only when gaming) too? And by how much will it be shortened?

 

[byza]

It should be fine, I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[tsuneo6]

I have no idea about that, but do you have a fan in your side panel? having a fan in your side panel might help with the heat build up. I'm assuming the upper card is getting warmer right?

if the fan from the sidepannel is positioned to blow on those 2 GPU's you might not have to up the fanspeed to much

 

[sportsfanboy]

Ramping up the gpu fans while gaming/under load is perfectly safe. They will run slow and quiet when not at load, so yes, nothing to worry about.

I have my gtx 680 on a pretty aggressive fan profile that reaches close to 80 percent fan speed as the gpu climbs towards 70c, the temp the gtx 6 series start to throttle at.

 

[Gee Bee]

The top is always hotter than the one underneath(heat rises). More so with non-reference coolers. Blower type (usually ref) send most of the heat out of the rear of case. To answer question, no rest easy, your good to go as is.