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pseudopad t1_iuc42ha wrote

Your GPUs integrity will be preserved by your GPUs sensors and firmware. It will throttle (and thus reducing its heat output) before taking damage, unless the card is defective.

If it's defective, you should try to get it fixed or replaced through the manufacturer's warranty, not point a fan at your PC.

If your PC needs more airflow, adding fans in the right spots inside the PC itself will be a far more effective solution, as well as more quiet. Probably not more expensive either. Case fans aren't expensive.

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redmose t1_iuctpoo wrote

throttle THEN shutdown itself before taking damage*

But yeah, you should avoid thermal throttling

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pseudopad t1_iud8p5k wrote

There's is a shutdown threshold, but it's unlikely to get that high if it's also throttling. Perhaps if you had a complete fan failure, or the heatsink fell off.

Throttling is bad and you should want to avoid it, but having it happen isn't going to cause damage, only lost frames.

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