GPU and CPU run at the ranges of 71 degrees Celsius to 79 degrees Celsius.
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Ignore what the others are saying - you want your CPU to stay working bug-free (or at all) longer than a year or 2? Never let it run over 60 degrees Celsius for any extended length of time. Best way to kill your CPU faster.
GPU? Max acceptable is around the same, maybe a liiittle higher, like 62. Nothing more, ever. Above that and glitches can occur, crashes to desktop, crashes of display driver, killing your GPU, etc. Let me put it this way - if I saw my GPU running over 66/67, I'd instantly turn off my PC for fear of killing it.
Those numbers are mad.
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Ignore what others are saying? are you serious? Many of us said the same thing you are saying...Btw a GPU can run hotter then 62, anything under 85 is fine actually for this card. I personally had a Ati 2900Pro that went over 100 and ran for 5 years without dying while gaming. That was considered a hot card though...It never died, nothing bad happened.
To say max acceptable temp of a cpu and a gpu is the same is silly, totally different components.
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True but I'm going for sure numbers. I've been building / help build PC's with / for friends for about umm, around 10 / 12 years now? I've dealth with, overclocked, soldered, troubleshooted, driver hacked and more a whole bunch of CPU's / GPU's, and these numbers are what I feel are "safe". Enough overclockers' forums say much the same often, especially for people that don't have so much experience messing with vcore voltages etc. - play it safe.
Sure, some cards seem built to bake eggs on, damn straight. A friend of mine had an umm.. I believe X1600 XT that he kept working @ around 90 - spikes of 105 for a while, happily telling us about how it just worked, no worries. About 6 months later he had a catastrophic full failure. Crash to black, no more screen.
After scouring the internet for some time for a fix, (due to many people OC-ing the card due to it being a good "bang-for-your-buck" card at the time, a lot of people had similar issues) he found an exotic one. He went into the kitchen, pre-heated the oven at a specific temperature (I forget what precisely) and put the vid card in, on a glass base. Few minutes later, he had a working card again.
He kept this cycle of death // bake // death // bake up some time before the card finally died full. It was like Hinduism for GPU's.
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I would say anything under 85 is fine for most GPU's though under a full load...CPU thats a whole other story, that should be much lower. Thats all I wanted to really say here, he should check his temps though, it could be cpu that is overheating, the coolers they come with are meh at best.
I have been building and overclocking computers since I was 13(I am 23 now) so I think I know my stuff also by now, but yeah some cards can take the heat, some cant...depends on the way they are built I suppose.
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Entirely, yup. Was just trying to go for fully safe recommendation here, 'specially as he's already been taxing his rig so much ;)
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