EVE General Discussion

Now on any game I've yet to see the videocard go above 60c....besides EVE.
I've got used to the norm of 75c when dual boxing and keeping a steady 60fps on both clients, that is until I load up CQ. Just one client running, I load up CQ and the video card temp goes straight to 100c. I keep the solid 60fps, but 100c, and that's as high as the sensor goes to! Am I the only one who experiences this, or is the community able to boil water whilest playing inside Barbies fun house?

Before people goes on about system being....whatever.
I'm currently running.
i5 @ 3.2Ghz, Asus mobo, 8GB, 560ti, 850w, Win 7 ultra, drivers are up to date.
4 fans intake, 3 out, proper cable management and etc.
System was built 2 months ago...

all modern (high end) videocards like your 560ti are designed to preform at ~100c w/o performance degradation

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My computer lap top thingie heats up quite a bit but I think its how the vents are. I would try to make it better but my grandson Billy said I shouldnt cause I might break somethin and I guess duck tape wont fix computer parts

Actually SWTOR will pull higher temps with crappier graphics, and I have the same card as you.

just in case, the precision program lets you manually adjust your fan curve. 70% ought to keep it closer to 80.

this. I've got a 560TI, and even when running it 100% for days on end running GPGPU or rendering jobs, it never gets above 65.

I was getting +95deg C temps on ATI 5870 Eyefinity 6 when running 2 clients, and I was using a Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus III cooler...turns out that while everything was running cvool, there was 1 voltage regular module getting hotter than the supplied ramsinks could handle. Added a Thermalrite VRM-R4 to it and problem solved.

Stock cooling is not as good as aftermarket...AM coolers come into being after problems with with released cards have been identified.

Captains quarters is a monstrous resource hog - but make sure you're using interval = 1 rather than immediate for refresh rate timings. I've got a lovely new 680 SLI machine that runs pretty damn cool, but even that gets the primary card to 90c if you go with immediate mode.

Stock cooling on a lot of graphics card are fail.

I had a GeForce 9800GT in my old setup that ran too hot. I took off the stock VGA fan/heatsink, put on an Arctic Accelero S1, and zip-tied 2x120mm fans to the bottom of the Accelero heatsink.

Sure, the whole graphics card + cooling took up three PCI slots, but it ran 40C cooler w/Furmark running at 100%.

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Go down this checklist:

- Check your graphics settings. Make sure that the EVE client is running at "Interval One." I've found that this usually fixes a good chunk of EVE related graphics/heat issues.

- Update your GPU drivers. Sometimes the maker will find a way to optimize your GPU in performing certain tasks, meaning that it won't have to run as hard, for as long... thus shaving some degrees off your temperature gauge.

- Try to remember the last time you cleaned the inside of your PC. If it has been more than 6 months (3 months if you keep the tower on the ground), disconnect everything and remove all the components. Give special care to each part. Check the corners and hard to reach places too.

- Check the airflow of your computer by feeding a steady stream of smoke into your intake fans. You want to see the smoke quickly pass through with few "circular" motions and/or "stalls" (i.e. you don't want to air stream to hit anything that isn't another fan).
You also want to see the smoke quickly go to the CPU, GPU, and PCU as these are the major sources of heat within the computer.

- There are quite a few "self-contained" watercooling fans available on the market. However, they require a bit of knowhow to install so I don't recommend this for anyone who looks at the innards of a computer case and gets nervous.