MSI Gaming 4G GTX 970 at 67 degrees Celsius while playing Witcher 3 on Ultra, too hot

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MarkW

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I never like to see a temperature on my video card go about 80c.

Download MSI Afterburner, set the GPU fans to run at 50% at 60c, 65% at 70c, 70% at 75c, 80% at 80c, and 100% at 85c. Then check the box to allow Afterburner to control the GPU fans, That should help keep the thing cooler.

 
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rob martin

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I have a pretty quite fan, so it runs at 80% during gaming. Funny thing is this is the only game it goes that high on. I wonder if upgrading the cpu would help. Just to let you know what my system is:

i5-3350p
gigabyte z77x-ud3h
nzxt Phantom 001 Red case
120mm front
220mm top (or 200mm? Not sure)
140mm rear exaust
and two 120mm side fans.

Basically I just set the temp limit to a lower temp, and it doesn't go over 86 any more, frame rate is OK though. I am probably going to upgrade to the 970 this fall, but want to improve the CPU first.
 
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Witcher 3 is very demanding of the video card. In other words, yes, it makes the video card work hard.

To be honest with you, I doubt that the CPU is holding you back. I suspect Witcher 3 is just rather poorly optimized.

As for upgrading the video card, the 770 is not a bad card. I still have the same card in my system. There are going to be new 14/16nm GPU's out in less than a year. I expect them to be much, much faster, and to have a lot more memory on them than the cards that are on the market right now. I am going to wait for those to come out, and for the market (prices) to settle down some before I upgrade. I cannot afford a new video card every year, so I try to upgrade when doing so is going to get me a very nice boost in performance.

Now, having said that about the video cards, I am hearing that those new video cards are going to have previously unseen amounts of memory bandwidth. And I do mean massive amounts. Currently, the highest memory bandwidth is 512Mb/Sec. Some of the new cards will have 1.2Tb/sec. Which is going to really make them fast. And that will probably task your CPU harder. So while I do not think it will make a whole lot of change for you today, it will when you get one of those video cards next year.
 
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batman is terrible too. That was the first game in 20 years of gaming I returned. I have heard AC unity was worse than this, can't imagine how, but OK. As for what you just said that is VERY good news indeed. Was thinking of getting the 980 Ti, but it is way too expensive out here still. Actually did a Fraps benchmark with witcher 3 it would drop bellow 30 fps, but very rarely, and I am not one of those people who are very sensitive to frame rate drop, so it doesn't bug me. I was just concerned about the temp of the card, and how I could fix it if at all. I don't know if I can best answer your answer, but thanks for your help.
 
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MarkW

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Well, Warner Bros announced last week that they will be pushing the fixes for Batman on the PC next month. They claim to have their A-Team on the job finally. Someone at Warner Bros should lose their job for pushing that crappy port out for PC's. It has come out that Warner Bros did know how bad it was ahead of time. and still shoved it out the door.

I did not buy it, and I am not sure I will. I do not like to reward companies that think they can get away with selling us crap. Which is why I no longer buy anything from Sony, EA or Ubisoft.
 
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