Is 75C on a GTX 260 really bad?

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tcgm472

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I was fiddling with fan speeds using Rivatuner, and it bugged out, and set the auto fan speeds to Min=65% Max=0%. So i went "Well Sh*t" and guessed that 60% would be a good speed. When folding, I was getting about 60C. Then the auto settings un-bugged out, and went to normal (Min 40 max 100) so I set it back to that. Just checked and my temps are at 75C. Is that really bad?:eek:
 
Should be perfectly fine, even running at those temperatures, by time the lifetime comes to an end, you would have already upgraded.
 
Its fine but under gaming loads you can start to see artifacts and hesitations on screen when heat builds up.

My card barely breaks 50oC OC 800core 2402Mem 88GB BW under crysis laod

try fan control or aftermarket cooling
 
Personally...I don't think your temps should be that high. The cards are designed to run in the 80c+ range but my GTX 260 has never seen over 65c. Even folding wide open for an hour and overclocked @ 790MHz with fan at stock settings it averages a little over 60c. These cards by nature run very cool, they should idle around 40c. I would say with an Antec 900 your temps are very high for a GTX 260.

What driver version are you using currently?
 
Ok, so these are load (assuming folding [Folding@home] uses all its power), it's and Evga, and driver is the newest, pretty sure, I'll get the new one now though, just in case.

EDIT: Ok so I had old drivers, installing the new ones now (I had 180.48 or something like that).
 
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Ok, so drivers are downloaded and installed, no difforence. But by the sounds of it, I'll leave it to 60%, keeping it around 60C, just to be safe.
 
Well if it's an eVGA then don't worry about it.

If you register the product on their website, you receive the lifetime warranty so if anything goes wrong, you can just mail it back to them for a new one.
 
Intel_man said:
Well if it's an eVGA then don't worry about it.

If you register the product on their website, you receive the lifetime warranty so if anything goes wrong, you can just mail it back to them for a new one.
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And the warranty isn't void if I change the fan speed settings using Rivatuner? It is third party, and sometimes using a third party software will void your warranty.
 
No, eVGA even has that overclocking policy.

Also, I don't think it will void the warranty because eVGA has it's own Precision Tool which is based off of RivaTuner but more user friendly. So eVGA will not void your warranty because of it.
 
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