GPU getting EXTREMELY hot?

[Zenaku]

Yeah I don't think one reply to the OP stated the game was optimized or not even. Checked over the whole thread, and several post just trying to give OP ways to lower heat with the old card they have. The game needs work no denying that, but to straight out blind rage at people because you don't like hearing to fix the issue now and in future spend a little money and upgrade is just unnecessary.

Also before I leave this thread I'd say go with the 460 like you said for $100 or less in some places it really is the best bang for the buck and will easily handle a generation or two more of games.

I agree this game going to be upgrade to DX10 sooner or later or at least the game would look better when new areas come out in a pack. So his card can't really handle the game in the new areas which would have higher specs then the the starting specs. Like in FFXI they had to lower the specs for sea due to the ps2 i wish the PC version was not touch on this. At least SE said for ffxiv the specs for PC would go up and the PS3 would stay the same.

So it be best for you to just upgrade SE is not going to fix the issue anytime soon so you better just get a new video card if you want to go on playing FFXIV. The 450gts at least that i know of does not have heat issue and i know a few who have 460 without issue. If not then just quit and wait for them to fix it lol but it wont be anytime soon that for sure that would take longer then adding 10 new dungeons 20 new HNM 20 new NM and loads of quest fixing the core issue and servers issue going to take a while.

I hoping by patch 1.25-2.26 we see this fixed or sooner.

[RethDaron]

I've had the same problem OP. I'm using a 5670, and my GPU got to 90c with the fan on automatic settings, and 80c with it set to 100%. I bought a PCI cooler to put right over my GPU to suck away the hot air hovering in the top of my case (my case only has one exhaust fan on the bottom, under the GPU) and I mounted an intake fan on the front of my case. That, and doing some cable management keeps my GPU at 75c max with the automatic fan setting. Is your case cooled properly?

[Geesus]

Shiny GTS 250 name is hiding a 9800 heart.

Please read this post Validates Euny's statement

Also, you JUST meet system requirements as mentioned above as well.

From FFXIV Lodestone page under the heading Required Specs:
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600 series with 512 MB VRAM or equivalent

My Card 9600 GT

Your card 250 GTS

9800 GTX
Other then Cores, the specs on ALL of these cards is 90% identical. Now, I came on here on page one to give advice. Now I'm flaming you because you took the nice nature of fellow gamers and apparently more tech savvy PC gamers and BUILDERS and shat on them with your ... /rage or w/e you want to call it.

Regardless, either take the advice you got and have a better gaming experience, say thank you and move on or just don't ask for the advice if all you're going to do is get angry.

[MokoMuncher]

I've had my HD5770 for almost a year and my temps were running at about 85c in game I then took it out cleaned all the dust out of it and replaced the thermal compound now it runs at about 55c.

[Dhalmel]

I have the same issue but not as hot with my MSI GTX 560 TI Hawk.

My load temps can get as high as 76'c and a 82 fan speed. Now some of you would say those temps are fine, but the Hawk uses VERY loud fans, it can get out right deafening.

Usually my hawk will max out at 68-72'c with other games, same with Furmark with the OCP unlocked at lower fan speed. (65-70)

[Secret_Reeve]

simple solution would just to buy a low cost water cooling solution.

single bay pump/res combination
raditor (120.1 or 120.2)
2x scythe gentle typhoon fans 1850 rpm
gpu water block (koolance gpu 220 is good)
6 8/10mm compression fittings and 2m of 8/10mm hose with some ultrapure distilled water or premix cooling fluid and all your problems go away.

trust me.

[Dhalmel]

simple solution would just to buy a low cost water cooling solution.

single bay pump/res combination
raditor (120.1 or 120.2)
2x scythe gentle typhoon fans 1850 rpm
gpu water block (koolance gpu 220 is good)
6 8/10mm compression fittings and 2m of 8/10mm hose with some ultrapure distilled water or premix cooling fluid and all your problems go away.

trust me.

Water cooling is far from simple and it's not cheap. Also using a universal gpu block like that would be bad for the high end GTX 500 series VRMS. You practically need to buy a full cover block if you don't want to burn off your GTX 570/580 470/480

You would also need to spend money on a better power supply and a full tower case.

[Fear]

When you buy a Graphics card try to avoid reference models, the cooling is horrid, try get a XFX or ASUS DirectCU version since the cooling is often 2-6x better and the temps are really low.

I have a ASUS 6950HD 1GB card, overclocked to 860MHz core / 1270Mhz memory and it never goes past 70c during FFXIV, it often stays around 60-65c

Also make sure you have a good flow of air in your case, more fans doesnt mean better, you want to make the flow of air good so the hot air gets blown out at the top of the case while intake blows colder air into the case. In my case I have 3 Intake fans and 3 outtake fans so its evened out, never have more intakes than outtakes or the hot air will just sit in the case try to balance it. also the PSU fan doesnt count as an outtake.

[Dhalmel]

When you buy a Graphics card try to avoid reference models, the cooling is horrid, try get a XFX or ASUS DirectCU version since the cooling is often 2-6x better and the temps are really low.

I have a ASUS 6950HD 1GB card, overclocked to 860MHz core / 1270Mhz memory and it never goes past 70c during FFXIV, it often stays around 60-65c

Also make sure you have a good flow of air in your case, more fans doesnt mean better, you want to make the flow of air good so the hot air gets blown out at the top of the case while intake blows colder air into the case. In my case I have 3 Intake fans and 3 outtake fans so its evened out, never have more intakes than outtakes or the hot air will just sit in the case try to balance it. also the PSU fan doesnt count as an outtake.

There's nothing wrong with reference models, in fact they are preferred by most overclockers as they have a consistent build quality and they can easily be swapped with after market cooling, air and water. They're almost always easy to voltmod too. Those coolers were meant to run at their stock speeds.

Another thing is XFX, they have REALLY went down hill since they left Nvidia. Shoddy customer support (look up denied warranty rma on sites like overclock.net) and they are known to cut corners with their non reference coolers/PCB layout. They're no better than the Palit brand with lame "uber leet" marketing.

[Solace]

Yea generally speaking all nvidia cards run hot and 80c is a normal temp now a days for nvidia. It shouldn't even be causing you to lock up though. I think an unstable overclock is more likely the culprit. Or some other thing, not ruling out bios based overclocking/hardware issues or anything I might of forgotten lol..
Buy an aftermarket cooler and put it on as well.. not hard to do.
Or take the case off the card and put a fan right next to it..

and +1 reference models are what we generally want. They don't mess with the original design so we can overvolt and overclock.