How warm is the graphics card's processor? Especially in the warm season you should know how to look it up quickly. In the following we explain to you how high the temperature can be and how you can read it out.
How high can the temperature be?
With normal room temperature and normal use of the computer (videos, web, office, etc.) you don't have to worry about the temperature. As a rule, the graphics card, or more precisely the GPU, won't be much above 40 degrees Celsius. However, when the graphics unit needs to work properly, it quickly goes up to 60 degrees and more. And if the room temperature is still 30 degrees, things can quickly get dicey - you should start worrying from around 75 degrees ..
There are many tasks that cause such temperatures: rendering extensive graphics, modern 3D games with lots of details and high resolution, calculating animations and video effects and also scientific calculations as well as encryption can use GPUs and load them massively. At some point graphic errors occur and the display becomes unstable. And at some point the graphics card burns out with a little bad luck. So if you suspect, check out:
Read out value with manufacturer tool
Pretty much every manufacturer has tools for controlling and reading out the graphics card settings and values - these should usually be installed on preconfigured computers. Just look for the graphics card manufacturer in the start menu . If no tool is found, check with the manufacturer. A case in point is MSI's Afterburner .
After starting the tool you will immediately find a series of graphs and the top one shows the current temperature - which tends to be around 40 degrees. But of course that fluctuates depending on the card, housing, ventilation and outside temperature..
MSI Afterburner shows the temperature immediately. Read out value with GPU-Z
The better solution, however, is the free tool GPU-Z. On the one hand, the little helper can do more than most manufacturer tools and, on the other hand, it works with any graphics card. Start the program and switch to the " Sensors " tab .
Here you will find a graph and the current temperature in the " GPU Temperature " line . If you click on the temperature field , you can display the highest, lowest or average temperature instead of the current one. Just let the tool run for a working day , then you can see via the maximum value whether there are occasional problems..
GPU-Z should always be available as an analysis tool. If the temperatures are often well above 70 degrees, you neither have to change the way you work nor buy new equipment. A little tuning can also be done immediately: the manufacturer's tools can often be used to turn up the fans , which work wonderfully in automatic mode by default, but can do even more - at the expense of the noise level. In addition, you can check in the housing whether the air can flow through well, or whether a few cables can be pushed aside. But the most important thing ad hoc is good old cleaning ! If you clean the (removed!) Card with a few cotton swabs and a vacuum cleaner, the critical area could already be left.
A tip for the very tough: if it gets really extremely hot and the computer has to work for two hours, simply put a frozen juice carton or something similar on the computer - that doesn't do much, but it can often do just that little bit what prevents a crash.
