Is this entirely on a card / model basis? My ASUS 3060TI Dual OC used to go up to 83C under maximum load lol.
spicylittlemonkey
It’s never been true
Not once in my life did I ever consider 70c too hot
1337_PK3R
Think about how intricate and engineered this little tiny graphics card or CPU is, these things are designed to turn off before they melt. If 70c was dangerous they simply wouldn’t be able to run
David0ne86
70 degrees are perfectly acceptable for any component. I would consider high only if we’re talking nvme. But for cpu, gpu, vram, motherboard’s vrm 70 degrees (obviously under load, not idling) are perfectly fine.
SheepMetalCake
I set my thermal limit at 85 and its fine.
Moidada77
As long as it’s under 85 it should be good.
Anyway my little 2060S seems to be liking sitting around the low 80s more often these days….time for a repaste.
No-Upstairs-7001
I’ve never looked or cared how hot any of it is, it either works or it doesn’t
deadlyrepost
Historically the temperature has been lower than a hotspot due to where the reading is taken. It’s basically safeties from the early noughties. Back in the day, there was basically no overheat protection in the CPU itself, so the CPU could literally just fry. The first set of AMD CPUs had “overheat protection” which would just hard shutdown the CPU. That plus thermocouples being separate from the CPU itself, and you would need to “catch” a CPU at 65-70 degrees because the “real” temperature would be in the 85 range, then at 100 you have a hard shutdown so the fans might not have ramped up in time.
Takeasmoke
by design my GPU goes up to 85 C before throttling down, CPU used to work on 90-95 C on stock cooler (but i changed that right away)
i just like to keep them around 70 C because fans are still quiet and those temps won’t hurt the system
rx7braap
CPU or GPU?
OvulatingAnus
My gaming laptop gets to 90C GPU and CPU so 80C is actually very good 🥲
mecatman
As long the cpu and gpu is below 90c while under load, it’s fine.
JeFi2
As long as it doesn’t thermal throttle it’s fine. Never had a component die from heat.
RK_NightSky
I am yet to see the mythical temps above 65C on my x3d processor KEKW
glad-k
Dude used a laptop in his life
Cootshk
I paid for the whole thermo meter, I’m gonna use the whole thermo meter damnit
NekulturneHovado
Depends. A gaming laptop running a very demanding game? Sure, 80C is perfectly fine and normal. A 65W cpu with 240mm aio cooler? Probably not okay.
plantfumigator
My limit is the hardware autoshutdown sewn into the CPU
Buetterkeks
Laptop CPU idling 90 in Performance mode >:)
No-Following-3834
lower the better but if its at 80c is alright
LordofSuns
Meanwhile, my 7900GRE happily bobbing along at 85°-90°
1tsUnnamed
Yeah that’s fine, but what’s not fine is that for some reason my gpu hotspot is around 100-105 when checking with HWmonitor and I can’t for the life of me figure out why
StarHammer_01
One exception being unless you are overclocking/undervolting
my 6900xt starts to artifact at around 80c, found out when I was benchmarking and pump speed was at 30% due to miscondigured curve. Luckily it runs 60-70c.
Hotspot temp is 10-15c higher than die temp in my 6900xt.
THiedldleoR
For a CPU under max load 80c is good. That’s how I tuned mine at least.
GPU… can barely get it to below 90c under load, maybe time to replace pads and paste soon.
Iheartyourmom38
after so many builds, we’re just tired.
The_Casual_Noob
While I do agree, if your hardware reaches 80°C under load you might be leaving performance on the table.
I have a Ryzen 2700X, base clock 3.7 GHz, boost clock 4.3 advertized. It ran at 80°C under load, and wouldn’t go past 3.8 GHz. That was while using the stock cooler.
Since I saw regular temps of 95-99°C on my laptop before I thought it was the motherboard that limited my performance, probably didn’t have strong enough VRMs or something. I changed the motherboard, same situation.
Later on, and with single core performance on this CPU being a bit of a bottleneck, I upgraded to a 5800X. This time, I took cooling seriously and bought a Noctua NH-12 tower cooler. On the same motherboard, the 5800X reached 4.9 GHz on a regular basis and can maintain 4.8 no problem, all the while temperatures are around 75°C, maybe a bit higher but definitely under 80.
I haven’t checked the 2700X recently but I’m still using it as a game server and I’m seeing better temps on a small Noctua cooler (L9-65mm) than I did on the stock cooler. Not sure how high it will boost though since I’m using a lower spec PSU.
So TLDR is : sure, at 80°C you’re fine, but if you’re often at 80°C or above you might have some thermal throttling, and not enjoy the full potential performance of your hardware.
Sioscottecs23
Everything’s fine till you hit 83
MrInitialY
GPU? A bit too much IMO. CPU? Totally fine
PantherPL
Honestly I haven’t been able to bring my Sapphire 7800 XT above 65°C no mater what loads and benchmarks and stress tests I’ve tried. And it apparently runs the fans at like 40% of what they could do? It’s fun to manually crank them to 100% sometimes and listen to this jet engine I never hear during normal usage, lol.
Opening the windows in -10°C winter so my 8350 can hit 5,4ghz
VilkasPL
Hotspot? Yeah fine. “normal” sensor? Not. Because hotspot is almost always 10-15stC higher
Zuendl11
I don’t like my cpu getting that hot because the fans ramp up and I have sensitive ears (the fan curves are already configured to the point I will tolerate it)
datsmamail12
My laptop at 94C while gaming be like,heat goes brr
Mysterious_Ideal6944
i just use an aircompresser from my grandpas old auto shop if it gets to high, blow a bunch of air right thru them fins man
Thanat0szh
Before I looked at the subreddit, I was really confused.
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Is this entirely on a card / model basis? My ASUS 3060TI Dual OC used to go up to 83C under maximum load lol.
It’s never been true
Not once in my life did I ever consider 70c too hot
Think about how intricate and engineered this little tiny graphics card or CPU is, these things are designed to turn off before they melt. If 70c was dangerous they simply wouldn’t be able to run
70 degrees are perfectly acceptable for any component. I would consider high only if we’re talking nvme. But for cpu, gpu, vram, motherboard’s vrm 70 degrees (obviously under load, not idling) are perfectly fine.
I set my thermal limit at 85 and its fine.
As long as it’s under 85 it should be good.
Anyway my little 2060S seems to be liking sitting around the low 80s more often these days….time for a repaste.
I’ve never looked or cared how hot any of it is, it either works or it doesn’t
Historically the temperature has been lower than a hotspot due to where the reading is taken. It’s basically safeties from the early noughties. Back in the day, there was basically no overheat protection in the CPU itself, so the CPU could literally just fry. The first set of AMD CPUs had “overheat protection” which would just hard shutdown the CPU. That plus thermocouples being separate from the CPU itself, and you would need to “catch” a CPU at 65-70 degrees because the “real” temperature would be in the 85 range, then at 100 you have a hard shutdown so the fans might not have ramped up in time.
by design my GPU goes up to 85 C before throttling down, CPU used to work on 90-95 C on stock cooler (but i changed that right away)
i just like to keep them around 70 C because fans are still quiet and those temps won’t hurt the system
CPU or GPU?
My gaming laptop gets to 90C GPU and CPU so 80C is actually very good 🥲
As long the cpu and gpu is below 90c while under load, it’s fine.
As long as it doesn’t thermal throttle it’s fine. Never had a component die from heat.
I am yet to see the mythical temps above 65C on my x3d processor KEKW
Dude used a laptop in his life
I paid for the whole thermo meter, I’m gonna use the whole thermo meter damnit
Depends. A gaming laptop running a very demanding game? Sure, 80C is perfectly fine and normal. A 65W cpu with 240mm aio cooler? Probably not okay.
My limit is the hardware autoshutdown sewn into the CPU
Laptop CPU idling 90 in Performance mode >:)
lower the better but if its at 80c is alright
Meanwhile, my 7900GRE happily bobbing along at 85°-90°
Yeah that’s fine, but what’s not fine is that for some reason my gpu hotspot is around 100-105 when checking with HWmonitor and I can’t for the life of me figure out why
One exception being unless you are overclocking/undervolting
my 6900xt starts to artifact at around 80c, found out when I was benchmarking and pump speed was at 30% due to miscondigured curve. Luckily it runs 60-70c.
Hotspot temp is 10-15c higher than die temp in my 6900xt.
For a CPU under max load 80c is good. That’s how I tuned mine at least.
GPU… can barely get it to below 90c under load, maybe time to replace pads and paste soon.
after so many builds, we’re just tired.
While I do agree, if your hardware reaches 80°C under load you might be leaving performance on the table.
I have a Ryzen 2700X, base clock 3.7 GHz, boost clock 4.3 advertized. It ran at 80°C under load, and wouldn’t go past 3.8 GHz. That was while using the stock cooler.
Since I saw regular temps of 95-99°C on my laptop before I thought it was the motherboard that limited my performance, probably didn’t have strong enough VRMs or something. I changed the motherboard, same situation.
Later on, and with single core performance on this CPU being a bit of a bottleneck, I upgraded to a 5800X. This time, I took cooling seriously and bought a Noctua NH-12 tower cooler. On the same motherboard, the 5800X reached 4.9 GHz on a regular basis and can maintain 4.8 no problem, all the while temperatures are around 75°C, maybe a bit higher but definitely under 80.
I haven’t checked the 2700X recently but I’m still using it as a game server and I’m seeing better temps on a small Noctua cooler (L9-65mm) than I did on the stock cooler. Not sure how high it will boost though since I’m using a lower spec PSU.
So TLDR is : sure, at 80°C you’re fine, but if you’re often at 80°C or above you might have some thermal throttling, and not enjoy the full potential performance of your hardware.
Everything’s fine till you hit 83
GPU? A bit too much IMO. CPU? Totally fine
Honestly I haven’t been able to bring my Sapphire 7800 XT above 65°C no mater what loads and benchmarks and stress tests I’ve tried. And it apparently runs the fans at like 40% of what they could do? It’s fun to manually crank them to 100% sometimes and listen to this jet engine I never hear during normal usage, lol.
Meawhile my laptop at 120C just opening Firefox
I had to…
https://preview.redd.it/4yzzmcp4da3f1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=523a3cdd257f90f05487b8284b8e302ad8a8acb7
Opening the windows in -10°C winter so my 8350 can hit 5,4ghz
Hotspot? Yeah fine. “normal” sensor? Not. Because hotspot is almost always 10-15stC higher
I don’t like my cpu getting that hot because the fans ramp up and I have sensitive ears (the fan curves are already configured to the point I will tolerate it)
My laptop at 94C while gaming be like,heat goes brr
i just use an aircompresser from my grandpas old auto shop if it gets to high, blow a bunch of air right thru them fins man
Before I looked at the subreddit, I was really confused.