A heatwave!!



You'd think they could design these cards properly. That's a triple fan R9 280X in 25C air blown across it by a large window fan. Don't they sell these things in California?

Do you have three graphics cards? Make sure that your system is well ventilated as you could just be blowing hot air from one card to the next.

Otherwise you could switch to a water cooled system or try a riser cable

They're not inside the case. The problem is fixed by taking apart, removing the rubbish thermal pads and gunk, and putting in decent 17W/mK paste on the GPU, VRM, and VRAM. No pads, pads are too thick and don't change thickness so well as paste. You don't want one thing holding it apart so another thing doesn't touch so well.

Voting for the water cooling. If you are OK with loosing your card's warranty of course.
Years ago I was playing with one double fan heat pipe Radeon board which easily reached temperatures of 90°C. Once I've replaced its heat pipe with water cooler the GPU temp changed drastically. Under full load it was around 37-45°C. But that will depends on the setup - radiator volume, number and type of fans, volume of water, type of the water pump, additional elements being cooled by the same system, etc. In my case my setup of triple fan radiator was cooling the heat from the CPU, the North Bridge and the GPU in series.
That machine is long ago retired so I'm planning of a new one once I find some spare time :)

Cheers!

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There is no need to get it that cool, just keep it a reasonable amount below 95C which is where problems occur. Decent thermal paste drops it from 95 to 75.

Someone over in Einstein used a central heating radiator outside his house to do the cooling.

Running the CPU aps is burning up my CPUs. The sse2 and sse3 aps are the most energy efficient and run cooler. There's no way to allow one to control which of these dangerous aps gets DLed. Best way is to mitigate the problem is eliminate the cause. Run this command after starting BOINC:

sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__avx_linux && sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__avx512_linux && sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__fma_linux

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Nothing burns your CPU unless you have inadequate cooling, this is a physical problem for you to fix and nothing to do with the project. Even it was to overheat, all CPUs will self throttle and never break.

Running the CPU aps is burning up my CPUs. The sse2 and sse3 aps are the most energy efficient and run cooler. There's no way to allow one to control which of these dangerous aps gets DLed. Best way is to mitigate the problem is eliminate the cause. Run this command after starting BOINC:

sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__avx_linux && sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__avx512_linux && sudo rm /var/lib/boinc-client/projects/asteroidsathome.net_boinc/period_search_10213_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu__fma_linux

just run anonymous platform like you did on TN-Grid. add only the sse3 app if thats what you want to run.

calling the app "dangerous" is quite hyperbolic. if you have temp problems, look into your cooling solution.

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