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On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:28:14 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, Rin
Stowleigh wrote: 

>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.

My card hits 80C when I run OCCT. It's a 670.

It hits 70C in a flash. I wouldn't worry at all about it.

Most of the games are running some form of DX9, perhaps with some DX10/11
bolted on for fun, but essentially limited to the XBox 360, and they
aren't going to challenge your video card.

For Civ V, if it really bugs you, you may want to go for low tesselation.
IIRC, DX11 tesselation on the landscape is what drives the card batty.

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Zag

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