Pascal seems to be more temp sensitive
People may be running them with a 70c temp limit but has anybody successfully ran a Pascal card for 4 years of mining like that? Answer is no because we are not at 4 years.
If I am mining something that is all core clock dominant where I can underclock the memory I will put the temp limit at 65 but otherwise I set it at 60.
The cards are supposed to work in 70's but mining is a 24/7 workload and NVidia doesn't have a rep for longevity like AMD does. run 60c if you want to get a good life out of them. Avoid over voltage also because I got a card I kept below 50c in a freezing room and I smelt burning after 2 days and there was coil whine that stopped once I reduced the OV
I keep the power limit at 85% but I'd like to up the Temp. Any more opinions on the longevity if I set it to 75c? You cannot change the core voltage of Pascal without creating a power curve, you set only a power limit. I'll have to disagree on the longevity of Nvidia, after 25 years of PC gaming it seems the budget friendly but power hungry ATI cards have always had a higher failure rate.
