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On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:24:13 +1300, Peter Huebner
<no.one@this.address> wrote:

>In article <3ucpj8pqjafsl53fi83fakstmgf2s58pie@4ax.com>, 
>rstowleigh@gmail.com says...
>> 
>> 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.
>
>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.
>
>Slightly worrying. 

70C is nothing to worry about.  In fact during gaming that's running
cool by some folks standards.