cooling - What's the maximum safe temperature for a HD Radeon 6870?

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2014-07
  • Adrian Grigore

    I'm running a passively cooled HD Radeon 6870 in my PC. While using 3D Acceleration, the temperature climbs up to 95 degrees Celsius according to SpeedFan. It seems a bit hot, but on the other hand I've seen other GPUs being specified to run up to 120 Degrees Celsius. The system is very stable, but Battlefield 3 crashes every few hours or so. On the other hand it might be the game's fault and not related to the GPU temperature at all.

    Does anyone know where I can find some manufacturer specs on the maximum allowed temperature for this GPU?

    Thanks,

    Adrian

    • Answers
  • tophersmith116

    AMD states that all of their cards can "safely" go to 120 C. However. anything over 100 is getting dangerous, in case your card happens to be on the lower end of temperature stability. 95 is still okay, but if I were you I'd get the msi afterburner program: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm which should allow you to set the fan speed based on the temperature (possibly your graphics card manufacturer has something similar). if you can't keep the card cooled to at the very least under 90 C. it might be worth it to increase your airflow to keep it cool.

  • Indrek

    Everything on the card has a safe operating temperature of 125 °C, even the video RAM chips. AMD is correct in their stating of 120 °C maximum operating temperature. But there is no reason it should be climbing that high, so try applying a new thermal compound.


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    I've looked around for an answer to this for a while, and have found many conflicting answers. I've heard that it shouldn't be allowed to go higher than 45C or so, and I've also heard that 55C is a safe limit. I'd really appreciate some clarification.


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  • William Hilsum

    It depends on the individual CPU, take a look at the Intel Core 2 Quad Specification site and click on your CPU to find out.

    It looks like average thermal specification is between 60c-70c, with some being higher

  • th3dude

    Usually anything in the 40-60 range is safe. If you hit the 60s or 70s you need to check your cooling solution. I believe most motherboards (double check yours) have a fail safe now where if your temp reaches a certain threshold, your system will power off.

  • Chris Tarazi

    Anywhere from 25C to 55C is safe.

  • Canadian Luke

    It all depends on what you are doing on the computer.

    Example: Recoding a Blu-ray movie from 50GB to 25GB. In that case, the CPU reaches temperatures of 90C - 95C.

    You need strong fans to pull out the heat or the CPU may burn or system halts.