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What's the maximum safe temperature for a HD Radeon 6870?

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Mar 15, 202685507 views
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I'm running a passively cooled HD Radeon 6870 in my PC. While using 3D Acceleration, the temperature climbs up to 95 degrees Celsius according to SpeedFan. It seems a bit hot, but on the other hand I've seen other GPUs being specified to run up to 120 Degrees Celsius. The system is very stable, but…

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AMD states that all of their cards can "safely" go to 120 C. However. anything over 100 is getting dangerous, in case your card happens to be on the lower end of temperature stability. 95 is still okay, but if I were you I'd get the msi afterburner …

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