New PC Running Hot on Rome Total War 2

[WizKazin]

I just got a new Alienware Alpha i5 desktop computer yesterday. It's fresh out of the box and everything. I started playing Rome II and noticed that the fan was blowing rather loudly and started marking down the temperature. On the Campaign map it's running around 70 or 71 degrees and is hitting 79 during battles. I'm running the game with no slow downs at all on the "Ultra" graphics setting. On less demanding games (Civ 5 Beyond Earth) I can barely hear the fan at all.

Does anyone know what I can do to reduce this temperature or is this normal for Rome II? I don't want to fry my new computer already!

Processor:6th Generation Intel® Core™ i5 6400T (6MB Cache, up to 2.8 GHz)
Video Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX960 GPU 4GB GDDR5
Ram: 8 GB

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm just getting back into PC gaming so my knowledge is limited.

Thanks,

WizKazin (Matt)

 

[greens]

Holding steady at just under 80c seems to be about par for the course with modern GPUs.

 

[Wayfall]

Oh its one of though's steam box things,

The performance it totally as expected

My old i5 4460 with my current GTX 970 got very high usages in huge battles when I played the imperial total war game, total war is a very CPU demanding series of games. My current i7 4790K wipes the floor with the game and just sits back.

Your pc is fine, enjoy the power.

 

[WizKazin]

Thank you both for the replies. I had no idea that 80 degrees was actually normal for the Total War games. I know that they are pretty intense, however. Thanks a lot!

 

[DelroyMonjo]

You can back off some of those 'ULTRA' settings, they're unnecessary.