is 80°c max Temp bad for evga gtx 980

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  1. acer915

    acer915 Guest

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    My gtx 980 is hitting temps of 80° max when playing crysis 3. Is that normal? I have a Intel 4670k over clocked to 3.8ghz. Plenty of good air flow to the card. Also it's also the stock nvidia cooler.
     
  2. LNCPapa

    LNCPapa Master Guru

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    Short answer is no. That's about where it should max out under load... maybe even a tiny bit higher if you have a reference model.

    LOL - must've been retarded that day. Short answer is yes
     
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    Seems crazy that it'd be getting up to 80c, unless you're doing something wrong. Is everything stock? I'm pretty sure they start 'throttling' at 80c, but I could be wrong.
     
  4. schoolofmonkey

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    Yep they throttle at 80c, but not usually under the base clock.
    Your boost clocks are not guaranteed, they are what the card can boost to safely.

    I had an Asus GTX980 reference which did throttle UNDER base clock speed, so I took it back.
    Now I have a eVGA superclock.
    You'll find that the eVGA won't go over 80c, but you throttle back to a little over the base clock speed.
     

  5. alanm

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    80c is not a problem, although it can affect your boost clocks by a notch or two (13-26mhz) or what may be referred to as "throttling". These cards are designed to go to 95c before 'real throttling' occurs. The guru3d review of reference 980 went up to 79c under load. Some evgas are based on ref card cooler so wont be as cool as non-ref cards. If it bugs you just create fan profiles in MSI-AB to bring temps down.
     
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    I have evga precision x and I it's at 100 percent power and set to 79 degrees
     
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    alanm Ancient Guru

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    Contact evga and see if you can replace it. Avoid reference cooler type, go with ACX v2.0
     
  8. Spartan_Hoplite

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    I think it`s normal, mine also at 80 C under full load
     
  9. gerardfraser

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    Temperatures can hit 91C easy on the cards if you do not have the fan profile set up.

    Power 125% and Temp target at 91C.
    I have seen mine at 91C,forgot to have fan maxed at 100%.980 EVGA cards.

    The cards can handle the high temps,just need to set fan profile to handle the Temps.
     
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    The default fan profile targets 80C on all of these cards since I can't even remember. So yes, it's perfectly normal.
     

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    Alright thanks guys! Is bad to unlink the power and the temperature on the evga precision x software? I want to set it to 100 percent power but 75°c. I feel more Comfortable with 75°c
     
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    unlinking is fine, that's what i do.
     
  13. kanej2007

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    As long as it's not more than 80 then I wouldn't worry.

    Once you see 90+ then start worrying!

    That said, a decent third party cooler will run quieter and cooler.
     
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    Here's my fan curve, it keeps the temps around 74/75c on my eVGA GTX980 SC.

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  15. D4rKy21

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    Short anser yes, thats extremely normal.

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