QUOTE(BelaCHAN @ Aug 1 2018, 07:08 PM)
Yes, you should be, if you're concerned about the longevity of your GC.
At above 70 deg C, your max turbo speed also reduced dy. Do a benchmark (like furmark) and you'll know.
My opinion, best temp to aim for any brand GC, MAX LOAD CONTINOUS FOR 30 MINUTES, would be
-BELOW 70 degC for Tier 1 (example: Asus ROG Strix, Gigabyte Aorus, etc)
-BELOW 75 deg C for tier 2 (Example: MSI Duke, Zotac AMP edition)
and
-BELOW 80 deg C for tier 3 (Your GTX 1060 mini)
That should not be an accurate judgement whether the card is good or not based on temperature alone and lower temps does not mean better card.
On all Pascal based cards, Nvidia implemented turbo boost based an absolute maximum TDP limit and core temperature . Manufacturers like Asus ,Gigabyte and MSI are allowed to set their card's TDP, therefore all of them has different TDP limit for every model of their cards. It is set in the GPU bios itself.
Let me give you an example;
Asus GTX 1060 6GB Strix OC has max TDP limit of 182W
Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB Xtreme Gaming has a max TDP limit of 225W
Comparing both which are custom PCB, custom cooler based card ,if you say the Asus is a better card because it has better temps, then I will not agree because the card running at lower temps not just because of the cooling solution, but it has a lower power draw limit ,thus discipating less heat to cool. In contrast, the Gigabyte card has a higher power draw limit which allows it to sustain higher clockspeed in return for better frame rates and more consistent core clockspeed. Other than Founder Edition cards, I strongly believe most Pascal cards true capabilities are limited by power draw not temps. Running GPU at 80+C consistently is no issue, as you can see all Founder's Edition card are being run that way.
This post has been edited by k!nex: Aug 8 2018, 08:28 PM