Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
Thanks.

That settles that. Normal ranges for my card are 76 degrees under load. I'm at 30 idle, and reach a high of 69 degrees when I play multiple massive Shogun II battles in a row with all detail maxed. I shall test Deus Ex: HR later. Since it's essentially an xbox 360 game with slightly improved graphics, it has no reason whatsoever to put more of a load on my GPU than Shogun II. If it does, then it's down to poor coding somewhere. Likewise their suggestion I increase the voltage to my GPU. No. Just no.
Overclocking is great; it's the only thing keeping my 275 competitive. Obviously, you should not try it unless you really want to an have some time and patience to understand fully what it is that you are doing. Also, Shogun 2 is a total war game, and therefore the optimization was outsourced to mandrills. Deus Ex: HR was intentionally crippled in this regard so that they could have "next generation specs", even though, graphically, the game looks like a HD Half-Life 2. Apparently, the new Eidos is taking the Bethesda approach.