Temperature question for my Asus 970 Strix

[Woolalas]

I had just bought a 970 Strix, and I'm kinda paranoid because I came from a 670 and the 670 used to get hottt like 70-80 degrees while playing newer games.

I'm just wondering if it's normal for my 970 to never get hotter than 62 degrees Celsius? I have yet to see a game make it run hotter than 62 degrees, even overclocked to 1500 mhz, running witcher 3, shadow of morder etc etc..

Also, (Sorry, this one is out of topic...) I am wondering if it is normal for older games like Dawn of War 2 Retribution to not fully utilize the GPU like maybe 50-80% of it is being used... because I hear when that happens it's CPU bottlenecking... I used the Benchmark on that game and I got a minimum 6 FPS...

My build is:
i7 5820k
Rampage V Extreme
16 GB Corsair LPX Vengeance
Asus 970 Strix
Corsair AX860 PSU

 

[Dragos Manea]

If it is fps lock then it is normal to use only 50% in older games, because it only takes 50% gpu to reach 60 fps or so (depends on the fps lock) if u use v-sync then the fps is lock at same values as your monitor refresh rate. About temperature, yes it is normla, the gtx 970 is a very efficient card and runs very cold.

 

[Woolalas]

If it is fps lock then it is normal to use only 50% in older games, because it only takes 50% gpu to reach 60 fps or so (depends on the fps lock) if u use v-sync then the fps is lock at same values as your monitor refresh rate. About temperature, yes it is normla, the gtx 970 is a very efficient card and runs very cold.

I usually don't lock my FPS, I don't like v-sync very much... so it goes to 100-200 FPS, at least that's what it shows on my OSD, but it still shows low amounts of GPU usage, it's even running at full speed (1509 Mhz).

 

[Dragos Manea]

If modern games it reaches 100% then u dont have to worry, it seems like the developer locked the fps to 200 in that old game.

 

[Woolalas]

If modern games it reaches 100% then u dont have to worry, it seems like the developer locked the fps to 200 in that old game.

Thanks for answering all my questions!

 

[Dragos Manea]

No problem.