So, I was running Speccy in the background whilst playing BeamNG in full screen mode. The game started to slow down a little, so I decided to have a peek at Speccy, and I'm glad I did! My Graphics card (It's an old one: nVidea GT 220) Was at 106c! 1 flippin' 06 degrees celcius! I wasn't going to at all think that it was a faulty heat sensor, because I touched it and now I have a heat-sink shaped mark on my finger! I know it's not important, but, just to be safe, download Speccy. P.S It was that hot because a clump of dust had got its self wedged and had stopped the fan from spinning. Oh my lord, was I alarmed!
Speccy isn't a computer saver so much as it's a monitor-er. The real computer saver is actually keeping your computer well maintained and making sure its failsafes are activated. They're there for a reason.
I have no such 'failsafes'. I have such an old computer. And, I agree, but I wouldn't have known about it otherwise, and would have continued playing. EDIT - I would have liked to continued playing, mind.
It can also force different fan percentages, so if you are getting higher temperatures than you like you can force 75% fan speed. I have to with my OEM HSF.
Just got it. Very useful! - - - Updated - - - It seems that changing the fan % seems to do nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Can you tell me how you do it please?
I use for example CoreTemp, and GPU Observer for all-around info. All set to alarm at certain temps just so i know that it runs hot. It won't do anything else, because at certain temps the fan automatically boosts to 100%, and a little while later if that wasnt enough the gpu and cpu will throttle down the core speeds. The fan boost is enough 98% of the cases. If the vent system is dirty, the machine will shut down at 98C degrees by the motherboard standard. There can't be any damage, only if all sensors fail, and i'm not noticing the keyboard melting
^ 98c will slowly kill pretty much everything. I don't like going over 80c on an intel CPU, 70 on an AMD, or 90c on a GPU.
Open the bios, there will be CPU and Fan related fail safes... computers have had them longer than you've been using them. Generally 106c on a GPU shouldn't kill it not if you've done it once. Last time I had something like that happen your graphics would start to artifact heavily, and probably the graphics driver will just crash and the computer will Blue-screen. Obviously it's best to keep the fan turning, but at least Graphics cards are fairly robust when it comes to heat issues. they're generally designed to not eat themselves. Personally I don't care what my system is doing, I don't have any software installed that checks the temperatures.
I believe your computer does have a failsafe of sorts since the game slowed down. I think this means that the card down clocked itself to avoid melting. I know cpu's do that.
The components are certified to 106c. Also my netbook proved that, it ran some heavy stuff (doing over 96-97c) for prolonged times for over a year, it was right on the edge of shutting down, but it didnt.. and its still working like new after four years. Its also an intel/nvidia combo. Check the intel arc site for info on processor TDPs.
The AMD CPU in my old PC hit 101C the other day. Needless to say it was instantly turned off and cleaned. I think it needs new paste, too.
An application of TIM on any chip in my rig generally won't last a month or more for various reasons. I use a motley crew of applications to monitor temps and the like, speccy doesn't really satisfy my needs. Realtemp by the way for those of you using coretemp is much more reliable and accurate, not to mention it doesn't have all that bloody bloatware trying to force itself down your gullet every time you run the installer.
