What are safe constant running temps for the VRM's on 7970's?

[ZaO]

As the title says - What is the highest safe temp for the VRM's on a 7970 to be at when under constant use? Also what is the VRM temp reading labelled as in GPU-Z? Thanks

[ladcrooks]

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...peratures.html

A lot of VRMs are rated at 125°C (as they are usually power MOSFET chips, and those are normally rated at either 85°C or 125°C). As Soul mentioned, the VRMs vary between manufacturers (even 2 seemingly identical cards) so the best way to find out is to try to find the little chips near the PCI-E power connectors (usually 3-terminals at one end + grounding tab at the other) and look up their part numbers.

That said, you probably have 125°C rated chips given that your GPU still functions.