is 88°C safe for GT240m

hi to all,

I have lenovo ideapad Y550 with gt240m. I have overclocked my GPU from mc:790mhz cc:550mhz to mc:865mhz cc:620mhz... I play Maxpayne3 with the highest settings and my temp goes up to 88°C while I am playing... is it safe? when not overclocked I get around 76-79°C

 

The general rule with GPU temperatures is that it should never exceed 90 C.

Although with 88 C you'll probably be severely shortening the lifespan of the GT 240M even more.

 

I looked up lots of forums and people let their gpu go up to 95°C.. and it is also said that gpu can hold up to 105°C... I don't have an intend to go over 90°C but I just wanted to mention.

 

It is safe but close to the danger zone

 

actually it doesn't go over 88°C, and now I raised back of my laptop with some books lol ... maybe it will help to reduce a few celcius

 

Depending on the laptop, that is normal or a tad high. It's definitely nothing to worry about. 88C max doesn't mean it runs at that all the time. You could clean out the heatsink and fan with some compressed air.

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If this is the peak temperature at high load (ie, recorded using HW Monitor after a gaming session), it'll be fine. A mobile GPU usually functions fine up to around 95C, when it starts underclocking or giving you artifacts.

The IdeaPad Y5x0 laptops do tend to run a bit warm, so I'd say it's normal. You might want to ease off a bit on the overclocking to keep heat down during the summer months, though.

 

an easy way to get it to drop a little is just by a nice cooling pad and you can rest your worries.

 

actually even the book thing worked I have max of 86°C, maybe a cooling pad will help more.

 

I am using MSIafterburner, I got two times underclock then I lowered the CC and MC a bit and now it works without problem... The temp gets 86 during the game and mostly stable around 84-86°C during gameplay... but once I exit the game it cools down pretty fast.. with regards to your responses I guess my current setting will be fine

P.S: MaxPayne3 is an amazing game

 

yea 84-86 isn't bad but lower is better my g51j would hit 105C in 60s in furmark before i quested on my insanity. Oh and that was with underclocks and throttling lol

 

when was the last time you cleaned your fans and vents out with compressed air.
if never then there is your problem. time to get cleaning.

 

Heck, 88C would be just Artic to a lot of overheated gaming laptops when WFO. Some games gets me to 90c after a few hours..I'm on a single pipe.

Thermal cycling, cold-hot-cold, would be harder on your system than even 90C long term...ask all the older nVidia guys.

Start demanding that all future notebooks come with a universal e-GPU port!

 

today I get max of 84°C donno what iss different from yesterday ... for now my GPU is just fine )

 

84-88°C is still acceptable.
Anything below 95°C should be ok actually (both gpu's and cpu's have a relatively high thermal threshold - up until 100 or 105°C).

Your overclock did raise the temps quite a bit though.

When was the last time you cleaned out the laptop?
And by that I mean the air vents, place between the cpu/gpu and the air vents, etc... ?
If its been a while, I recommend you open the thing and clean it out.
That could reduce your temperatures as is.

To top it off, you could do the following:
Restore the clocks to factory settings, find the lowest stable voltage for those clocks, keep the lower voltage and THEN overclock (by roughly 15% or 20%).

This is what I did on my 9600m GT and reached 9700m GT clocks easily on lower voltages.
It should be possible on your gpu (more or less).

 

today I opened back of my laptop and cleaned the fan etc. and it was clean... besides I can only change CC and MC, it doesn't let me to change the core voltage... And if 84-86c is ok, then there is no problem )