Keeping your PC cool is important. The higher the performance of your computer, the more heat it generates. Effective cooling is essential to protect your hardware from overheating and damage. Can graphics cards be cooled too much at all? We light up the darkness!
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Condensation water could be a problem
Yesterday a Reddit post caused a lot of discussion. Redditor »Stop_81
In general, extreme cold, of which the 23° Celsius from the Reddit post is still a long way off, is not harmful to PC components. Only two things need to be considered:
- The functionality of moving parts, such as fans, can be limited by extremely low temperatures.
- Condensation can form below the dew point.
This means that in theory you can cool a graphics card too much, but this is very difficult to achieve. As a rule, the temperature of your graphics card will almost never be below room temperature. In order to further cool down the GPU or other components, for example to achieve absurd overclocking rates, some »extreme overclockers« use dry ice or liquid nitrogen.
In such experiments, meticulous care is taken to ensure that as little or no condensation as possible can form, for example by using specially built chambers. You can see what such an extreme overclock with liquid nitrogen looks like here on Youtuber Der8auer.
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Here you can find out how you can overclock your graphics card yourself and without any dry ice or liquid nitrogen:
Overclock graphics card – How to get more performance out of your graphics card
In practice, you will rarely have to contend with condensation on your graphics card. For example, 100% humidity would be needed for condensation to form at a temperature of 23° Celsius. With a typical room humidity of 40 percent, the dew point would be 8.66° Celsius. Cooling down the graphics card that much isn’t easy, so don’t worry about it.
What was the lowest temperature you have ever seen on your graphics card and have you ever asked yourself this question? Tell us in the comments!
