you will start to care when you will see your GPU dying in 6 month when it should do run for year's.....
and when this time will come, you will be surely concerned, but too late
No it doesn't , mine runs about 2 years with custom bios and way higher voltage than the max safe one and thats on Air!!!
With your saying's mine should had been dead within a month of my purchase!!!!
All in all for stock or even oced cards using only msi afterburner temps up to 85c are safe and the card should work just fine even after 6 years but until then you will want to upgrade anyway.... He simply need to push the fans a little more and stay below 80c , if this card is not the reference then it will be very easy.
Also if the card dies within only 6 months then its not late because most cards have 3 years warranty and you will get your replacement but no healthy card can die in 6 months no matter what.
85° are safe... for how much time?
after this how a 1080ti should heat like this on this game? i am sure you got an explaination for that too, lighten us please
For 24/7 use but that's the limit , always considering that he doesn't let the thermal paste to dry out , any further than this will start to burn the silicone in result degradation will start to happen.
What I am trying to say here is that the problem is not the game itself but the cooling of the card or the his fan settings , my card can draw 450watt and I can maintain a maximum of 78c on fully load , his 1080ti is rated at 250watts stock , so he shouldn't have temps that high no matter what.... BUT if he has the reference nvidia card this temps should be expected due to the poor cooling that provides and the only solution to that is to watercool his card , the cheapest way to do it is with an AIO + NZXT G10 Kraken and it will still look very good.
If he hasn't the reference card and he owns one with double or triple fans then he just needs to make a more aggressive custom curve in msi afterburner or another 3rd party program and his problem will be solved that easy. Sadly some makers let their fans run at very slow speed even if the card gets really hot.....
Specifically, I have the EVGA 1080Ti FTW3 and yes, I've set it to "aggressive" with the fan curves to hit full speed at 80 degrees and 90% at 70 degrees. But as I've said in my previous post, things look normal now and it might have been the small update we got.
