ASUS GX10 Tests Show No Thermal Throttling at 82°C
A r/LocalLLaMA author tested DeepSeek V4.1-Flash on four ASUS GX10 systems across six cooling arrangements while recording temperatures, clocks, power and throughput. The highest observed temperature was 82°C, with no thermal throttling behavior and a maximum clock reduction of about 3%, which the author attributed to power-leakage management. The author found no meaningful performance difference between the coolest and hottest runs, though this was a single community report without independent corroboration.
The measurements provide concrete thermal and throughput data for local DeepSeek inference on compact AI hardware, showing that even 82°C GPU temperatures did not produce a meaningful performance loss in these tests.
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I'm back with another report. This time it's on temperatures. Also, [CE Robot] = Claude Opus 5.5 Copy Editor where applicable (per line.) Otherwise, I wrote it.
TLDR
While running DeepSeek V4.1-Flash, the GX10s can run as hot as 82°C without any throttling behavior. The most you will see is a max clock reduction of 3%, which is mostly to manage power leakage. There is no meaningful performance difference between running the GX10s at their coolest or hottest, about 3%, effectively noise.
Intro
I came across a post or two on DGX_Spark (friendly people I swear /s) and was curious about two posts with different hodgepodge cooling scenarios to keep their GX10s/Sparks from overheating. I have experience with NVIDIA's gold 4TB Spark and the ASUS 1TB GX10s and besides a few launch issues, haven't really noticed any throttling. I still had the scripts that ran benchmarks on DeepSeek V4.1-Flash. I decided to modify the scripts and query GPU temperatures.