Safe GPU temperatures

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What temperatures are safe for a GPU?

Andreas

Posted 2009-10-14T06:36:47.870

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Celsius or Fahrenheit? ;-) – Ivo Flipse – 2009-10-14T07:13:30.620

1Andreas being in Sweden, I guess it's Celsius! ;-) – Snark – 2009-10-14T09:52:04.950

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GPUs can handle a larger heat level than CPUs. At idle they are often in the range of 50-70 °C.

Max is more like 100 - 110 °C.

For example; checkout the specifications for the NVidia GTX 275 max (recommended) operating temperature is 105 °C.

Nick Josevski

Posted 2009-10-14T06:36:47.870

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