Warning: Overheating Video Cards

[Granyala]

The actual power supply interior is a place I can't easily clean so it could very well have cat hair or whatever from 10+ years of use. I'll be looking into that. Thanks!

DO NOT OPEN YOUR POWER SUPPLY unless you are an engineer and know what you are doing!
Even plugged out it has rather large capacitors and there is still a possibility of electric shock.

Random dust/hair will always be present and should not be the culprit. Even my computer has some dust bunnies in there.
As long as the fins of the coolers / intake filters aren't clogged and the fans are spinning appropriately, you are good.

There is the possibility of HTC degradation, in order to find out, grab Hardware info and Furmark. Stress the system for a while and observe the temperatures. Both CPU and GPU should stay below 80°C at all times.

I know modern stuff can reach 100°C safely but I have never been comfortable with that for extended use.

Hihihi, that's the reason why i love the FF14 benchmark as an instability test. Because it can spoil issues, which other tests don't.

Wouldn't Furmark be a lot easier? It can even test stability of power delivery by maxing out CPU & GPU at the same time.

RTX20 is a 2018-2019 video card. Not THAT OLD.

Probably you were using DLSS + high level of shadow softening + perhaps NO lod. In short the AI part was working like crazy, and a entry level GPU card has not enough tensor core.

My advice is to let geforce experience decide the best for you, add a FPS limit (always a good idea) and if it is still overheating remove the other shadows.

Again: a GPU should not overheat even if it is pegged at 100% use. Just employing arbitrary limits is a band-aid fix. He needs to assess the root cause of the instability.

[Larirawiel]

Wouldn't Furmark be a lot easier? It can even test stability of power delivery by maxing out CPU & GPU at the same time.

No. Furmark is basically an overheating test. And it is throttled down in AMD- and Nvidia drivers to prevent overheating. The FF14 benchmark however is a good memory- or "did i undervolt/overclock too much"-test. I know one case, that a guy undervolted his GPU. All games but the FF14 benchmark ran stable. He undervolted the GPU a little bit less and it also worked with the FF14 benchmark. The FF14 spoiled a semi stable system.



Cheers