Computer Temps

[EANeuspeed]

Does anyone know a good website or tool on where all computer temps should stand. I been playing WoW lately and I notice my gpu jumped from idle 40c to when I start the game to 73c. After there lastest patch. I did notice the fan ran a bit higher then usual. This has to be a bug with the game because I played DOOM3 which is require WAY more juice then WoW and it was running at 54to 63. The cpu jumped from 30 to 45 with WoW. With DOOM3 it went from 30 to 38.

[JustMeBF2]

Well where they should be is variable depending mostly on room temp and case cooling.
But you are seeing something specific. The patch probably opened up some higher end eye candy making your video card work harder. While it is nice to run at 40c, 73c is not terrible but could shorten the life of your video card by a scrunch, nothing noticeable.
I would make sure everything is clean and maybe use a tool like evga precision (works on all nvidia cards) to manually increase your video card fan speed. You may need to add another case fan or move to a higher volume case fan.
While there isn't a perfect temp monitoring tool CPUID has a good one at
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

[kilroy0097]

There is also a possibility that there is a bug in the patch that is forcing your card to re-render objects multiple times and hence it's working harder than it should. If you visit the WoW forums and there is no talk of something amiss then it could be JustMe says. Or you might see a stealth bug fix in a later patch from the devs. about it.

[Donavon]

GPU's do run MUCH hotter than CPU's most of the time.
Doom3 is a 6 year old game and shouldn't really tax a current midrange gpu anymore, even on Ultra settings, so not sure that's a real good comparison.

What is your gpu? Try looking up a review for it. Most good review sites will provide the idle/load temps of their review samples. So check Anandtech or Tom's for a review of your particular card, that should give you an idea of what your card should be running. Modern high end gpu's can easily push +80c.
Here is a review of the brand new gtx 580, under load it's running right around 90c, and it's running cooler than the old gtx 480 that it replaces.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580/17
It also shows a comparison with other current cards (though mostly of other high end cars, as this is a high end gpu review) so your card might actually be in there. My gtx 260 is, with load temps ranging anywhere from 75c to 84c - and I know my actual card probably runs hotter than that, because it came overclocked by the manufacturer.


Also, Where are you in WoW when you notice this? lots of pc's and npc's around at the time? Lots of spell effects, spell particles?

I don't play WoW, but I do play EverQuest alot, and even on my system, in a raid encounter with lots of npc's and pc's running around, and all the various spell effects from the hundreds of spells being cast... it will make my gpu choke unless I turn the eye candy down for those situations.
MMO's are unique in that you can get into situations with tons of other players around you, tons of enemies, tons of environment effects, spell effects, all occurring at once that a FPS game designer would never dream of trying to throw at you all at the same time. Plus, MMO's are constantly tinkering under the hood, upgrading graphics, adding new effects... WoW is not the same game graphically that it was when if first came out. EQ is no where near the game it was when it first came out. They are able to, and frequently do, raise the recommended/required hardware specs needed to play these games. So if they just released a new update/expansion, likely they've tweaked the graphics, or enabled some new feature or rendering technique that's pushing your gpu harder that it did previously.

[Shadowryche]

WoW actually changed their graphics engine around with 4.0.1. If you have a DX11 card there is a way to switch the game to use DX11 rendering. And I found it actually ran better.

[APOC]

My guess is with the new patch the polygon count on most of the environment went way up and everyone is back playing so that means more and more to render on your card/cpu. I don't know my temps but my cpu meter is showing a pretty big spike in load on both of my cores while playing since the patch.

APOC

[Shadowryche]

My guess is with the new patch the polygon count on most of the environment went way up and everyone is back playing so that means more and more to render on your card/cpu. I don't know my temps but my cpu meter is showing a pretty big spike in load on both of my cores while playing since the patch.

APOC

I'm certain I read that WoW will actually use up to 3 cores now.

[EANeuspeed]

I notice alot of people started to complain about there computers overheating due to there last update. Another update was released this afternoon and I notice a 10c drop after there update. Thanks god I noticed that right way because that f@Cking games should not be pushing 70c. That shit happens to Crysis which is eye candy worth not WOW. :upyours:

Thank you guys for that info.