GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

Hello everyone,

I know that there is a sticky about GTX280 overheating but it seems that no one is looking there anymore and second my temperatures aren't THAT extreme. But still I am a little worried.

My Gigabyte 280 is idling around 47-55C tops. While playing games it is around 78C, sometimes lower.

There are only 2 games that made it go over 80C. The first game is Crysis with custom maps and tweaks – never gone above 83C. Second game is Empire: Total war which easily makes my card go 84C (but not above) on the campaign map!

Are these temperatures normal or not? Or in other words, I know that the lower the temp the better, but should I be worried?

I use RivaTuner to monitor my temps. I have launched FurMark for a few minutes and my card went to 86C (fan started being loud) and temp dropped by 1C to 85C and shave tayed at that level.

Everything is at stock clocks, I have not modified any fan speed in RivaTuner (I’m scared that when I set it to 100% or something, my fan will die very fast).

Please don’t be rude to me, as you can see I am no expert in hardware things. And sorry for my English as it is my second language.

Cheers.

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

I think that's ok for temps. Sometimes when I'm playing games for a long time, and exit to windows I'll turn my fan speed up to 100% for a minute just too cool down faster, then put it back on auto.:)

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

Thank you for your answer.

Currently I'm playing around (testing) with Riva Tuner. Should I set up fan speed at 70% when card hits 70C? I don't want to put the fan 100%.

I'm not sure about the default fan speed either, from RT showed me it was at 40%. So I guess 70% > 70C should be ok. What do you think?

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

The fan speed goes up and down by itself, but lets say you quit a game it will go back to 40% quick even if temp is at 76 degress, I just manually up it for awhile to cool it down faster, 70% is fine :D

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

They are normal.

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

Thanks. I'm just curious because you can't find definite answer.
Some people say that 80C for this card is borderline and it should run cooler. Others say it is absolutely normal. :)

I'm just trying not to destroy it on stock clocks.

Also, with this speed fan thingy. Surely running it on higher % will make it die sooner, but should I worry about it? I mean, by that time it would like, 3-4 years later?

Cheers everyone.

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

I would'nt worry about fan speed, just that it might be noiser thats all, well maybe don't run it 100% forever.:)

Re: GTX280 temps, should I be worried?
 

Thanks guys.

I have set the fan during load to 65% and the temps dropped from 84 in E:TW (the biggest temp I have ever had) to 70-72.

Since my average temps in "normal" games was at 78 and now is below 70 I'm very happy. Guess I shouldn't have been scared of Riva Tuner. :P

Cheers