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Peter Huebner  <no.one@this.address> wrote:
>Anyway, I had Asus' monitoring program running today. After 30 minutes 
>of running Civ 5 the gpu temperature had gone from a happy 43 degrees 
>Celsius to 70+ .... it took only less than 2 minutes to drop to 42 after 
>I shut Civ 5 down.

As Rin said that's a normal temperature for a video card when playing
a game.   Depending on your video card I'd only worry if it goes above
80-85 degrees though there are high-end cards were that's normal.

In a properly designed and cooled system there should be nothing a game
can do to damage your video card.  Video cards are designed to run full
out at high temperatures.  If there's adequate ventalation in the case,
and it doesn't take much, then the fans on the video card will be able
to keep it from overheating.  (Modern cards will also try to protect
themselves from overheating by throttling down and if that fails shutting
down, so you should get some warning before any permanent damage happens.)

						Ross Ridge

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