I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported by the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C.
Here's some info about my current set-up that might be helpful. lspci -v|grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) uname -a Linux box1 3.10.17-gentoo #2 SMP Fri Dec 20 23:03:32 EET 2013 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux equery -q l '*nvidia*' media-video/nvidia-settings-304.60 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20 equery -q l '*sensors*' sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.3.3-r3 xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5 equery -q l '*hddtemp*' app-admin/hddtemp-0.3_beta15-r7 rc-update show|egrep 'lm_sensors|acpid|hddtemp' acpid | default hddtemp | default lm_sensors | default pwd /usr/src/linux grep '^[^#].*ACPI' .config CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK=y CONFIG_ACPI_I2C=y CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU=y CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0 CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=y CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y CONFIG_PNPACPI=y CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y CONFIG_SENSORS_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_DMA_ACPI=y Any input would be appreciated.