Knowing your graphics card's GPU temperature is vital when your PC keeps overheating, or when you try your hand at overclocking. Here's how to check your GPU temperature.
How hot is your PC's graphics card temperature? During normal operations, your GPU temperature shouldn't matter much—your graphics card should simply drive monitors and play games without overheating and shutting down. But if you have an older PC, a case with poor airflow, or if you want to try your hand at graphics card overclocking, being able to monitor your GPU temperature is vital—especially when the summer heat is scorching indoors and out. There's a reason that "may your temperatures be low" is a common saying among PC enthusiasts. The good news? Checking your PC's graphics card temperature is dead simple, especially now that Windows finally includes a native way to keep tabs on temps. All sorts of free GPU monitoring tools are also available, and many of them can help you check your PC's CPU temperature, too. Let's dig in. How to check your graphics card temperature You can now find your discrete GPU's temperature in the Windows 10 Task Manager. Microsoft finally answered our prayers with the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, adding a GPU temperature monitoring tool in the Task Manager. Sure, it took 24 years, but it's here now! To see how hot your graphics card is running, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc, by pressing Crtl + Alt + Delete and selecting Task Manager, or by right-clicking on the Windows Start menu icon and selecting Task Manager. Once you're in, simply head to the Performance tab and look for your current GPU temperature listed in the GPU section, as shown in the image above. This works only if you have the Windows 10 May 2020 Update or a newer version of Windows installed; older versions lack the capability. It's a bare-bones feature, showing only the current temperature rather than tracking it over time. It can also be annoying to keep Task Manager open while you're gaming or fine-tuning an overclock. While we're very glad to see the option finally included in Windows itself, third-party tools offer more robust GPU…