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

Solution 1:

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 program: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm which should allow you to set the fan speed based on the temperature (possibly your graphics card manufacturer has something similar). if you can't keep the card cooled to at the very least under 90 C. it might be worth it to increase your airflow to keep it cool.

Solution 2:

Everything on the card has a safe operating temperature of 125 °C, even the video RAM chips. AMD is correct in their stating of 120 °C maximum operating temperature. But there is no reason it should be climbing that high, so try applying a new thermal compound.