Quote Originally Posted by Tiraelina View Post
No it really is only poorly built GPU's that burn out, that or you are trying to stress test with FurMark. Everything ranging from VSync to having AA/AF on is going to change it, CPU/GPU interaction being a bottleneck will also change it.

All you are doing is making a big fuss over nothing, my old 4850's ran at 95-100c all the time under load and are still working after several years. Want to guess the thermal limit before the hardware failure? ~120c. 5870 will throttle itself back if it even gets near the danger zone of 100-105c which it won't do unless you have a very bad cooling arrangement/overclocking/FurMark.

Witcher 2 is DX9 and uses 99% of my own 5870, that doesn't mean its lifespan is getting shortened. It's working as designed
Except SE has come out and said that the game is not running on our PCs right because it is not optimized and that's why there heating up, I guess what part of them admitting the game is potentially doing damage was not understood?