Suitable Overclocked GPU Temp?

Hi guys,

I just overclocked my 6990m. Its all stock, no repaste and running at 800mhz-core,1000mghz-memory.

I did some furmark runs and it gets way over the 90C mark. I set an alarm at 98C and it did get to that temp pretty quick (maybe 3-5 mins).

I then decided to give Crysis 2 a go with the GPUZ log file and my temps arent exceeding 80C (GPU temp 3).

Is this ok? What is a decent temp to avoid frying your GPU? Does it lower the life time of you GFX card?

Thanks for your help everyone and merry Christmas!

 

You might want to invest in some quality paste and propping the laptop up on something. Maybe even a laptop cooler.

 

Hi Zoolian,

Do you reckon its an easy thing to do? dont want to mess up anything! I think I read you dont actually need to pull out the GFX card but just take off the heatsinks or something?

I'm always taking my laptop to my little bro for a gaming session so I dont want to be carrying an extra laptop cooler!

Thanks!

 

I've increased my 560m's core clock and shader values by 20% and the highest temp I've seen it is 62C (this is with IC7 paste and a notebook cooler). Man that card stays cool

 

that's way too hot bro...you 100% need to repaste and reseat the heatsink. Its very easy to do

Just as a reference, after 4 mins of Furmark, my temps hover at 67c and it stays there.

 

Yeah I think your right, I really should repaste... even without any OC I'm getting around 90C in furmark after a few mins.

Thats not right is it? Did they not paste it properly at the factory? I never got a thermal shutdown but still, that just deosnt sound right..

 

6990's a pretty hot card. And Dell uses pretty cheap paste.

 

Agree with slick.

Dell paste stinks.

Super easy and safe to repaste both CPU and gpu yourself. I think mandrake did a picture step by step on this forum....search.

Buy a tube of mx-4 from amazon and don't look back. Drops gpu 10 degrees and CPU about 8 degrees from stock crap.

Merry Christmas!