It's worth noting, since people seem to not be fully aware of it, that temperature on modern nVIDIA cards (particularly Kepler and on, but to an extent even Fermi) is NOT to be considered the way you are used to.
While for marketing reasons nVIDIA suggests it's a dynamic overclocking of sorts (GPU boost), modern cards are designed to operate at peak and constantly throttle down from there (so in reality it operates like a safety measure does on CPUs). What that means is that, in example, a Titan will actually be pretty much at 80+ Celsius all the time try to hit max clock (some will hit 1k and above, some 960). That isn't a bad thing, it's designed to operate at that temperature. What the hardware does is vary several parameters, chiefly the clock, until the temperature reaches a cap, and then constantly vary those parameters to keep it there or just under. While in the past constant throttling could be bad for performance, and still is for CPUs on most tasks, Kepler and after GPUs are designed around it. So if you buy a 9xx, or a top end 7xx that's not a Maxwell preliminary (not the 750 basically), and it's constantly at 79 on die, don't freak out. To keep it below that your only option is to forcefully clock lock it, or lower the caps for temperature or for the clocking plateau, depending on what options the manufacturer's control panel offers. Quadro budget Keplers like the 4200 and the 5200 work the same way I believe, except that for cards like the 4200 they have such crap specs that even boosting to cap they are unlikely to even scratch 80C, most of the time they don't have the transistor count to make it to 70 :p On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:36 AM, <hk-v...@iscs-i.com> wrote: > > Read many horror stories but never that bad. Even 3D mark never cranked > it past 70 C. > > >
