High temp, low GPU usage

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Hey everyone, looks like it's my turn to ask instead of answering. I don't actually have an issue per se, I just happened to notice something that struck me as odd.

I'm playing Fallout 4. The only DLC I'm missing is Nuka-World. I'm running Afterburner on my comp and monitoring the stats via my Android tablet (awesome function, MSI rocks). I noticed that my GPU is sitting around 60-70 degrees, but the usage is only going up to around 50-60%. That struck me as odd.

My full system:

CPU: AMD FX-8370 8-core 4.0GHz per core
Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme9
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3-2400
GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti Windforce 3X
Case: Raidmax Viper (not Viper 2)
PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 900W
OS: Windows 10 Pro

I'm thinking it's just that the older Viper 1 has poor airflow compared to cases that're more contemporary with the 980Ti, and that once my Thermaltake The Tower 900 arrives it'll behave a bit more normally, but I figured why not ask?

I'm also currently missing most of my character's sounds, including dialogue, but that started after I fell through the world at one point in a mod area, so I think I know where to point the blame for that. :p
 
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BigBoomBoom

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That's not high temp, and the bottleneck is your CPU. Fallout 4 has unrealistic shadow rendering, so with the not-so-good AMD FX CPU you are going to get heavily bottlenecked. Knock the shadow distance down to Medium, or even going into the .ini and reduce it further.
 
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Maxwell and Pascal cards are set to throttle at 82-83C. Fallout 4 maxed settings on certain scenes is just kaput, someone actually posted his result using i7-6950k clocked at >4.2Ghz (I think 4.5-4.6Ghz but I can't remember) and the game still uses all his cores (10) at certain scenes just to keep the Titan X (Pascal) SLI happy.
 
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The only reason it's not hitting the throttle temp is because I set up a custom fan curve in Afterburner. The other night it nearly hit 80 at only about 70% usage because the fans were only running at 50% or so, so I told it to take its default fan curve and shove it lol
 
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I always use custom curve because default settings are usually directed towards USA users where it is not very hot.
Come here to India and we have 42-46 C temps on average these days (bound to increase), so if you are living in such hot countries then seeing higher then normal temps is common and nothing to worry about.
As long as your GPU isn't hitting throttle temps you are fine.

My GPU without running AC in room is currently sitting at 41 C (Normal curve, it doesn't even run fan below 50C). MSI GTX 1080
 
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