Setting a max GPU temperature in Afterburner

[Obsessive Power]

Hi,

A simple question really. I've got a Zotac Mini GTX 1070. It gets rather warm in certain modern games at 1440P and in certain games (Fallout 4 - Far Harbour DLC) at 1080P, but this is rare. The GPU sits idle at around 32c and hits 80c under load. I'm not concerned about temps, just noise.

I've set a custom fan curve, but it doesn't help that much with games running higher than 1080P. This graphics card seems to have a very loud fans under load - there's two of them.

It's going to be replaced soon with a much larger RTX 2070 or 2080 with either three fans or a much larger heatsink.

If I changed the maximum temperature to the low 70's in MSI, would this help with the noise without hindering performance?

Not a big deal, just an experiment really.

Thanks.

[PAX]

It would hinder your performance in games. If the card would hit the 70 degrees mark it would throttle to keep the temperatures low. As your card hits 80 degrees under load, this would mean worse performance/ less room for the gpu to operate.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It will hinder performance as it will clock throttle the gpu any time it hits the max temp you have set.

Play with headphones and don't worry about it, 80*C is fine

[Obsessive Power]

Thanks for the replies. Despite saying I wasn't worried about temps I probably was, but not anymore. Going to leave it as it is. Cheers 😀

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Obsessive Power:

Thanks for the replies. Despite saying I wasn't worried about temps I probably was, but not anymore. Going to leave it as it is. Cheers 😀

I've got a fairly cheap 2 fan 2080, and I haven't seen my GPU hit 65c yet, so you won't have to worry once you upgrade, My 980 Ti used to hit the 90's sometimes in the same case.