Nvidia temps

[Davros]

in the driver settings it is set to warn me if the card goes over 120c
that scares the hell out of me i just cant beleive a chip can run ok when its capable of boiling water
is there any way to change it so it warns me at a lower temp eg 75c

[Zengar]

Nvidia cards can easily run with temps above 100 :-) My card displays 256 Celsius all the time (but there seems to be a problem with it after my water cooling leaked). Normal temps are 50-60 Idle and 80-90 unter load, depending on card and cooler.

[SoulAssassyn]

75c might be a bit too low... but you can change the warning temp in the nVidia preferences control panel. Change it whatever value you like. It also shows you the current temp of the GPU there as well!

[Davros]

is that in the new control panel
because in clasic cp you cant change anything (only put a tick in the notify me box) ????

[nutball]

I'm confused why people are concerned about this. Do people really read the Web Wisdom(TM) about max temps for CPUs and presume that the same threshold applies to GPUs?

- the default in NVIDIA drivers is set by NVIDIA. Are they likely to know what's best for their chips?
- if it exceeds your personal comfort threshold for "too hot", what are you going to do? Stop playing games?

My basic question is -- what practical difference is setting a lower warning threshold going to have except help you to scare yourself in to never playing games again?

Seems to me your options are:

- stop playing games and sell the card
- or buy another card which doesn't have a temperature read-out
- or watercool it

- OR stop worrying

[SoulAssassyn]

lol nutball!!! best response ever!!! ROFL!!!

[ChrisRay]

Nutball is entirely correct. People worry way too much about the tempatures these cards are outputting. Nvidia's own settings will downclock these cards when they exceed tempature. I had a fan die on a 6800NU and it hit the 130C mark and came back just fine when I booted it up again because Nvidia drivers throttled down the core.

It might make your room a little hotter. But its not going to just burn up. If you arent experiencing any artifacts or lockups then theres no reason to worry about the tempatures.

[CosmoKramer]

I'm confused why people are concerned about this. Do people really read the Web Wisdom(TM) about max temps for CPUs and presume that the same threshold applies to GPUs?

Well, answer this: Are both GPUs and CPUs semiconductors?

[Simon F]

Nvidia temps
Every time I read this thread title I think it has something to do with the number of registers supplied in the shader**.

Is it possible to rename the thread to "Nvidia temperatures" for idiots like me?




** Though, indirectly, I suppose it does.