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A cracking job exited because it exceeded thermal limits. That's a good feature, but a better one might be to increase the fan speed instead of shutting down.

I manually configured the fan to run 100%, and restarted the job. After 15 minutes, temperature is 59C -- which is actually lower than the 68C it started with.

Of course, this could be a bad feature if running the fan at high-speed for too long could hurt it.

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After 43mins, temperature is now 58C with fan at 100%:

[s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [q]uit => s
Status.......: Running
Input.Mode...: Mask (?1?1?1?1?1?1?1)
Hash.Type....: MD5
Time.Running.: 43 mins, 1 sec
Time.Left....: 1 day, 6 hours
Time.Util....: 2581270.6ms/418.7ms Real/CPU, 0.0% idle
Speed........: 1037.7M c/s Real, 1034.8M c/s GPU
Recovered....: 1344/822657 Digests, 0/1 Salts
Progress.....: 2678677831680/114868566764928 (2.33%)
Rejected.....: 0/2678677831680 (0.00%)
HW.Monitor.#1: 98% GPU, 58c Temp
[s]tatus [p]ause [r]esume [q]uit =>

I disagree. We had the same discussion on here: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-774.html

You are probably right. Your time is probably better spent doing something else, like tweaking kernels, or getting my 7970 working :-)