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Thursday, March 03, 2016 11:47 PM (permalink)
Hello, I am new to gpu temperatures and i was wondering what the normal gaming temperature for this card is. a friend saw my gpu temperature at 71c and had me get msi afterburner and had me manually set my fans so that the temperature is around 60c. i know this cards fans normally dont even turn on until 60c, so i am just wondering if this manual fan speed is completely necessary, or just a better safe than sorry deal. at the time it was 71c, my fan was running at 27% on the auto setting
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    fearpoint
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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Thursday, March 03, 2016 11:55 PM (permalink)
    http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications
     
     
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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Friday, March 04, 2016 0:24 PM (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby Junko Friday, March 04, 2016 1:25 AM
    68 - 76c is where you want to be, if you can get lower than that then you're doing even better. 80c and higher is when you need to start adjusting fan profiles. 98c (max allowed temp) will cause the card to throttle back a good bit to reduce heat. 100-105c = thermal shutdown, card will shutoff to save itself.


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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Friday, March 04, 2016 5:29 AM (permalink)
    Well, I noticed on my card that it shut down at around 92C. It was a GTX 970. Also thermal down clocking starts wherever the thermal target is set in Precision X. Default I think is 80C and I assume it's 80C too if Precision X is not installed.

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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Friday, March 04, 2016 7:13 AM (permalink)
    Anything below 80°C is totally fine!
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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Friday, March 04, 2016 7:26 AM (permalink)
    Mine seem to peak around 72°C, with the fans running under 50%. Of course, the top card is always a little warmer when running SLI.
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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Friday, March 04, 2016 11:38 PM (permalink)
    I decided to make my own fan curve, where the majority of the time the fan will be at 40% fan speed, since on the default curve the fan barely reaches 30% for me i was wondering if that extra 10% speed will increase the fan wear by a noticeable amount?
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    Re: Safe temperature for Geforce gtx 960 4gb Ftw acx 2.0+ Saturday, March 05, 2016 9:05 AM (permalink)
    All good!
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