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Article #716644Re: hot video card
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:28
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:28
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:14:06 -0400, David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: >On 10/03/2013 4:21 AM, Ross Ridge wrote: >> Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> wrote: >>> I cannot understand why or how that should be so. We're talking about a >>> TBS game here ... >> >> It's actually much easier for simpler graphics to fully exploit all the >> power of your video card. More complex rendering likely to have more >> parts of the GPU either unused or waiting. There was a game, I think it >> was Starcraft 2, that had a main menu that was infamous for overheating >> video cards until they put a frame limiter on it. > >Hmm. A slight flaw in the usual strategy of trying to pump out as many >FPS as you can manage? Actually in that case, I think those cards that got fried were running a beta driver that had a bug that prevented the fans from coming on. So the real lesson there is probably to avoid beta software, and also that it's foolish to not monitor framerates and component temperatures.
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