Extremely High GPU Temperatures:

[Haydest]

Out of curiosity, I was curious what temperatures people are running this game on? I checked both the EVGA Precision Tool and the MSI Afterburner and my GTX560ti has been reading at near 80-88c consistently! Now I realize this card is supposedly capable of running up to 105c, but I'll be honest and say I panicked a little when it actually reached 92c one night.

For starters, here is my setup:

i7 2600k, overclocked to 4.2 GHZ
EVGA Superclocked 560ti DS @ stock settings
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHZ DDR3 RAM
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM
Crucial M4 128GB SSD Sata 3
ASUS Z68 Pro Motherboard (I forgot the exact model number...but you get the idea)

The case is a Thermaltake Commander; not the best thing out there...but until I get some funds for a HAF, I am compensating but placing some extra casing fans to draw and push out the excess hot air.

So all in all, I thought this setup would be more than fine to run FFXIV at max settings; I get that the 560ti could be replaced with a GTX580 or something along those lines...but here's thing:

I get perfectly fine FPS, and the only time I really lag is when I run through the Bazaar/Market Wards area in Ul'dah.

The CPU is staying perfectly fine at roughly 45-48c under load. Here are my settings: (in no particular order)

Texture Filtering: Highest
Model Texture: High
Shadow Details: Highest
General Drawing: 8 (for some reason, I get a huge drop in performance at max)
Background Drawing: 5 (High)
Multisampling: 8x CSAA
Window Size: 1920x1080 (native resolution)

AO is set to OFF
DoF is set to ON (for reference, I tried turning this off and saw no temperature change)

I have been Googling the last few days and it seems other people have the issue of this game making their GPU run extremely hot. I get that the code is not very well optimized, but I'm wondering if there's a particular setting I should be turning down?

I have forced vsync and triple buffering on via NVidia Control Panel and saw about 2-5c drop, so that has helped a little bit. For testing purposes, I actually turned a few settings way down--standard drawing, background, shadows, and model textures as well as multisampling to 4x. To my surprise, I saw nearly a 20c drop!

I'm not sure if it's just one of those culprits causing the GPU to heat up or if it's a combination...I've even tried forcing the GPU fans to 100% and it was still easily going past 75c. I have been running a custom fan profile to begin with, where the fan's ramp up 20% or so at every 20 degrees higher than 40 up to 100%. I'm just really boggled here as I've purchased numerous steam games over the holiday break and I've ran each and every one of them flawlessly at maxed settings without my GPU temps exceeding the 65-70c range.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and if you require more info--I'll be more than happy to give them.

EDIT: I am running the game in windowed mode, for additional info's sake.