X99 chipset = cooler video card than X59 ?

[digitaldreams]

Thought I'd hit my new x99 motherboard with Crysis 3 on max settings, it ran just fine as expected.

Then I noticed, the old GTX780 video card fans didn't pick up like they used to !?, a quick check on the card monitor showed card temperature never exceeding the mid 50c's. How does moving from x59 to x99 chipset result in this ?. Both boards had six-core processors, ram moved from 12gb ddr3 to 16gb ddr4.

Just thought it was a little weird, but nice (quieter). On a side line what advantage does the 'vsync' option give in game video settings ?

Regards

 

[Confused Stu]

Vsync will be (pretty much) limit your frame rate to one that the screen can easily display to try to avoid tearing being visible on the screen. For a normal 60Hz screen, this means VSync will only allow your PC to produce 60FPS, 30FPS, 20FPS, 15FPS, etc (anything that will divide exactly into your screen's Hz). This can produce less then ideal effects if your system could produce 55-65FPS, as you'll find yourself switching between 60FPS and 30FPS, which can be jarring.

VSync can also reduce the stress your GPUs are under, and hence their heat, by making them only produce 60FPS where they would be pulling higher framerates if they were allowed to run free. Do your GPUs still run cooler without VSync enabled?

 

[Orangey]

New case?

 

[digitaldreams]

Vsync will be (pretty much) limit your frame rate to one that the screen can easily display to try to avoid tearing being visible on the screen. For a normal 60Hz screen, this means VSync will only allow your PC to produce 60FPS, 30FPS, 20FPS, 15FPS, etc (anything that will divide exactly into your screen's Hz). This can produce less then ideal effects if your system could produce 55-65FPS, as you'll find yourself switching between 60FPS and 30FPS, which can be jarring.

VSync can also reduce the stress your GPUs are under, and hence their heat, by making them only produce 60FPS where they would be pulling higher framerates if they were allowed to run free. Do your GPUs still run cooler without VSync enabled?

Thanks Stu !
No change in GPU temps with vsync on or off. Great not having the fan noise

 

[digitaldreams]

New case?

No...

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Is your GPU usage less than 99% when the fans aren't being noisy? Crysis 3 should be pushing a 780 all the way.

 

[wunkley]

If you're running everything right, crysis 3 is still the most gpu intensive game out there on many levels. And your 780 should be pegging along at 99% percent usage and screaming for ice! Something's not right for sure.

Is your card a reference cooler one? If it is it should be hitting max temps of 80 odd degrees. If it's an acx cooled one it might be a bit lower but no way 50 degrees. You need water cooling to achieve that.
I've got water cooled 780Tis and ref cooled 780tis so I know my onions.

 

[digitaldreams]

Geeze, found it.

When upgrading my mb, processor and ram I used my current win7 ssd. As usual it handled the move of components very well (just a bit of driver cleaning to do). yet on move over the fan control software lost the custom profile so was not pushing the 3 fans like it needed to. I just noticed a problem when crysis3 crashed, the monitoring software showed the gpu temps going over 67c.

p.s. I don't use anti-aliasing so temps might be lower than you'd expect. Card is a Zotac with 3 large orange fans, love it !.

Feel like an idiot, kids and I been through hell in private life tho.

Regards & thanks guys.....

 

[Nickjf20]

67C? That's nothing

 

[wunkley]

Eh? Still not with you. As Nick says 67 degrees is also way low. If your fans were on the default setting, like it sounds, your temps would / should be way higher. In crysis 3...