Graphics card is getting very warm?

th
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My GTX 1060 6GB will warm up to 83 degrees at the lowest settings and up to 87 degrees at the highest, though Fortnite is still a game where graphics are not as demanding.

Is that still bad, or should I worry?

sp

Is still in the frame, only from 100 ° C, it is critical.

You can egsp. Via MSI Afterburner, the fans turn faster from a certain temperature. That's what I did, mine was always over 80 ° C hot.

Na

This is not really bad, but if your GPU reaches nearly 90 ° C in such a game, you should think about whether the airflow in your PC is good (or if you have one at all).

It's best to have a fan at the front and back (front in, out at the back) and as few cables as possible between them.

pa

How many case fans do you have or what do you have for a case?

wa

Depending on how the temperatures in your room look like, such temperatures can quite possibly come about. How demanding the graphics looks like is not really important here. It depends more on the utilization of the graphics card.

Dangerous I would not describe your temperatures yet, I personally would only worry about 95 ° C +.

th

So it is a finished PC, which only has a fan at the rear

Br

I know the question is not here, but do you know how I can best clean the ventilation from my laptop? That's pretty dusty, and I get to the 90 degrees with my GTX 1060 as well as every game.

Na

Do you have suitable tools to open the laptop? Many laptops are easy to open completely and you can easily clean them with a compressed air cleaner.

If you are a little better off with it, you can also replace the TIM with Conductonaut, which should make everything an extra 10-15 ° C cooler.

Br

Is it also possible to simply blow air into the fan with pressure, or does one push the dust in deeper?

Na

Can you try, I do not know where you want to push the dust.

Br

I just said that the dust is not then possibly when you blow in from the outside, is blown deeper.

Ju

Is not so bad but watch times rather if the temperatures rise even more and look vlt times if somewhere a cable is jammed and if your ventilation works properly.

Na

I do not understand what you mean by deeper. Where should he go?

You should also remove the dust in the direction as normal as the air flow is.

Br

Oh just happened to see that my laptop yes has a USB type C port.

So I could have noticed earlier

Na

That's your problem, there's no cool air coming in.

th

Yes you are right.

pa

OK, because of the outside temperatures, it's not uncommon that it gets pretty warm in the PC with just a case fan. Download MSI Afterburner, you can see how much ° C your graphics card has in Fortnite by ticking the Settings monitor then GPU Temp. Then next to OSD in the game ads. If it is really too warm (with my RTX 2070 in Fortnite about 50 ° C) then you should download the EVGA Precision X1. There you can overclock the graphics card and adjust the fan speed of both the graphics card and the case fan. For a future upgrade, I would suggest to install 1 or 2 Case fan for the front so that fresh air comes in.

th

Best with compressed air spray, I have done so well.

Ka

With a laptop, it's pretty common for you to hang in the Temp Limit even at moderate game load. If you do not have FPS problems I would accept that.

You can efficiently clean them only by slowly removing them. But I would only do it if necessary.

Br

So I went by just blown with compressed air from below through the opening. Strangely, why was the laptop about 5-10 seconds faster?