FFXIV Temps on GTX460

[Eunys]

I currently play Fallout III, Crysis 2, WoW and a few other games none go above 50-60c on a pair of Nvidia GTX460's at 1920x1080 max settings. I've noticed though FFXIV in the short time I played through the intro getting to the pub/inn that my cards reached 79c before I shut down the game. Is this normal for this game?

[Khalus]

XIV is not optimized very well, and yeah it does tend to draw more power than I think it should, making ones GPU heat up really quickly and remain quite hot. I have a GTX 580, and with the EVGA Precision I pump my fan speed up to 77-85% and the temps still remain in the 66-68c range, to as high as 76c.

At that same fan speed in most other games, my temps are quite cool between 45-56c...

[MattyWS]

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[Loth]

Yes, this is quite normal for FFXIV, it tends to make video cards run about 10° C higher than most other games.

Your video cards are rated to run up to 104° C, so do not worry about 79° C.

What graphics settings have you set in the Config application?

[Coldfire]

The heat goes down if you underclock the gpu memory. This shouldn't affect gameplay at all. The game is probably optimized to run on PS3 and does alot of unnecessary operations/transactions :P

[Khalus]

What graphics settings have you set in the Config application?

Everything on max, though I keep Ambient Occlusion off, and I hold steady at a solid 60fps.

[Coldfire]

Yeah the GTX 580 is pretty powerful. But the fan/cooler is the weak point on most highend GPU. Watercooling is a nice way to solve this, but this is pretty expensive for GPU.

[Khalus]

The vapor chamber cooling on the reference design 580 that I have is excellent, and vents 100% of the heat out the rear of the case. Its really just XIV not being fully optimized properly, cause my heat is quite low in everything else. And should anyone decide to get one, don't get their new HD & DS designs. Those only have a standard fan directly over the CPU, and about 70% of the heat is ejected back into the case. Even with a well vented case, you'll see temps rise a good 10-15c.

[Coldfire]

Vapor chamber? Isn't that patented by Sapphire? xD

[Khalus]

Dunno if it was patented, but yeah it appears as though they did it first...

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2118301
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/coolers...cs_Cards.html#

Doesn't matter though, its an awesome technology that keeps this beastly GPU quite cool...


And in all honesty, I feel that water cooling it really only required for the enthusiast gamers or OC builders that must have the highest e-peen benchmark scores running tri/quad SLi/Crossfire setups. With a proper PC case, like the Antec 1200 or Coolmaster Haf, and with the right components, air cooling is more than enough for the standard gamer.