What should be the normal temperature of the video card?

All computer components during operationproduce a certain amount of heat. With poor cooling, the temperature of the computer can reach critical values ​​and disable it, especially for the video card. In this article, we will try to find out what is the normal temperature of the video card and how to avoid its increase.

Temperature of video cards for different companiesmanufacturers differs from each other and strongly depends on the method of its cooling and power. For a conventional video card, it is approximately 40 degrees during idle time and 70 degrees under load. Too often find out what the normal temperature of a video card is not necessary. It is enough to have one check every three months. If there are failures in some applications, reboots and system performance degradation, the temperature sensors can tell a lot to the experienced user.

At the moment, equipment for computersworks at very high frequencies and from manufacturers, due to very high competition, very high requirements for the capacity and performance of the product. In our time, the gamer is incredibly lucky, as the producers, competing with each other for the sales market, produce models with an amazing capacity of "iron" for a relatively small cost. In addition, companies in the process of fighting for the customer are already accelerating the standard graphics card to a serious level at the factory, or they provide various utilities for self-accelerating computer hardware.

The game graphics card has a strongheat, and in order to constantly maintain the normal temperature of the video card, manufacturers install various sophisticated cooling systems with large coolers and radiators.

In the case of serviceability, the cooling system is notallows such heating of the processor, but in time any even the most reliable equipment begins to wear out, especially the cooler. Grease withers, dust enters, parts are deformed. As a result - overheating and failure.

If your computer has such "symptoms of the disease" and the optimal temperature of the video card goes beyond its acceptable limits, you need to take appropriate measures:

• First, pay attention to the dustiness of the cooler fan fan and its cooling fins;
• secondly, we should pay attention to the placefinding the system unit itself (there should be free space around it for fresh air access and good ventilation). Even such a simple action as removing the side cover of the system unit at times improves the cooling of the computer and its performance;
• third, you can use variousprograms that increase the speed of rotation of the cooling fan of the video card. In this case, in order to ensure that the normal temperature of the video card does not go beyond the permissible limits, when starting "heavy" applications it is necessary to manually increase the frequency of the fan.

I would like to say about efficiencythe last item. Adjust the airflow is necessary not only to maintain the optimum temperature of the video card, but also to ensure its power margin. You can conduct a simple experience: with increasing cooling on your computer, the frame rate is increased by fifteen percent! Not a bad performance gain, do you think?

Can you imagine the possibilities of yourcomputer, if the normal temperature of the video card under full load will be several times lower than the one set by the manufacturer? For this, there are systems of forced forced cooling, the main component of which is liquid nitrogen. Well, this is the topic of a separate article ...

I wish you to use only quality and good hardware! Good luck!