How much heat is normal for a graphics card?

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 10/29/2015, 11:08 AM

I just found a heat monitor that works on Win 10 and for the first time ever I can observe the alarming amount of heat my ATI FirePro V produces, which is in the low 80's F when Vegas (or anything else) is idle and up to a max of 90F when strained by a lengthy and difficult render job. Since it never climbs over 90F makes me think the card is self regulated and I have nothing to worry about -- or should I be concerned? My CPU readings are between the low 40's and high 70's, which I know is normal (or actually pretty good).

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OldSmoke wrote on 10/29/2015, 11:29 AM

These are good temps for a GPU. My 290 on air went as high as 160F when stress tested and could go higher. It's now water cooled and never goes above 130F.

As for monitoring software, try HWiNFO64; it does a lot more then just GPU and works fine under Win10.

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 10/29/2015, 2:11 PM

Thanks for the comforting reply, OldS. I never needed anything more sophisticated than Window's built in gadget when I was running W7, but a similar gadget (like a couple of other ones now) are not accurate in W10 and couldn't rely on them, so I went for Piniform's Speccy, which does the job for me because it displays the CPU average temp in the Tray, besides giving me all sorts of information in a glance on an easy to scan interface..

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 11/14/2015, 8:15 AM

I just upgraded to Windows 10 Threshold and it took away from me (without a trace!) my recently acquired Speccy temperature monitor, telling me that it is no longer compatible with Threshold. Can anyone recommend me another monitor that will work with yesterday's (November Thursday's) upgrade?
OldSmoke, is your HWiNFO64 still good to go (if you have upgraded, that is... BTW, my upgrade went as smooth as butter) ?

OldSmoke wrote on 11/14/2015, 9:10 AM

HWiNFO64 works well on Windows 10 here.

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 11/14/2015, 10:22 AM

Do you mean even the latest upgrade of ten? The one you would have if you downloaded it yesterday or today, because only the update rejected what I had.

Paul Fierlinger wrote on 11/14/2015, 10:37 AM

I have the answer! I went ahead and downloaded HWiNFO64 and upon opening, I was informed there is a new update and all is good. Thank you once more, OldSmoke; this one looks like a keeper.

OOOPS!! I was too fast. New Windows update just rejected this app too -- it just vanished from my screen and the .exe file won't open it anymore.

EDIT: oops again. It was hidden under a rock in the system try. It's reading the temps nicely as I watch it now, rendering a 30 minute, 1080 uncompressed avi film, and all is well. Sorry for this confusing post but at least I can verify that the first W 10 update loads & works with no trouble, opens on startup faster and with improved performance showing in both my main software.