Framerate trouble

[Firehorse]

It seems no matter what variations of settings I use i'm getting no more than 20fps in FSX, any help? (No I don't have the framerate limiter on)

(cpu is an i7 2600K and graphics is a gtx 580)

[Stephen!]

Download MSI afterburner and look at the GPU usage after about 5 to 10 minutes of play.

[Firehorse]

Download MSI afterburner and look at the GPU usage.

I don't think it's a gpu problem however, more the processor. (Because fsx is more cpu intensive).

[Stephen!]

The GPU is what puts that CPU power to use. It's still a crucial component, even in GTA IV.

You should also be on driver version 266.58 that came out 2 days ago. They are truly awesome drivers for the 580.

[Firehorse]

Ah good, i'm getting 60fps or so now. (I also disabled the EPU option on my motherboard and set it to performance mode)

[Agnostic Bear]

Well apart from your terrible choice of graphics card I'm glad to see your problem is fixed. Now you just need to monitor the temps to make sure that fermi card doesn't burn your house down.

[Recursion]

http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/1/14/FermiTitle.jpg

[Stephen!]

My 580 loads at 45

[Agnostic Bear]

My 580 loads at 45

thousand, right?

[Stephen!]

No. I take care of my cards and don't leave the crappy stock cooler on :P

[Agnostic Bear]

Well I'm sorry that we don't all have the vacuum of space to cool our cards down.

[Stephen!]

Wouldn't a vacuum make it worse?

[Firehorse]

Wouldn't a vacuum make it worse?

Well the heat would probably dissipate really fast considering it has no air to heat up and no warm air = coldness.

[Stephen!]

How does the heat get from the chip to wherever if there is no medium? The heat would just build up inside the chip, no?

P.S this has got to be the most off-topic sway I've ever seen.

[Recursion]

How does the heat get from the chip to wherever if there is no medium? The heat would just build up inside the chip, no?

P.S this has got to be the most off-topic sway I've ever seen.

I think you're correct, whilst the heat could radiate, you'd still need a way of moving the heat away from the source, outside a vacuum... funnily enough, air would do it.

Vacuums themselves aren't cold/particularly warm anyway.

EDIT: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-experiments/553182-computer-vacuum-2.html

[N!ck]

EM radiation.

Tom, radiation is moving energy away from the source. At the speed of light.

It's a complex problem actually. As an 80 degree chip isn't going to lose heat via radiation in a vacuum any faster then it is at room temperature and pressure. However, the surroundings are not at room temperature. The surroundings on Earth also emit EM radiation of energy proportional to to how hot it is which the chip will absorb and heat it up. So radiating heat is more effective in the vacuum of space, but there's no convection which is the primary source of cooling the chip on Earth.

[Recursion]

http://www.rollogrady.com/wp-content/themes/widgetimgs/tmyk.gif

[N!ck]

EDIT: http://www.overclock.net/cooling-experiments/553182-computer-vacuum-2.html

Only read the two pages of that thread, but that's only correct on Earth. To simulate it in space you'd also have to cool the vacuum chamber down to something like -260 degrees Celsius and implement some kind of one way mirror that stopped most of Earth's background radiation entering and the radiation from the device inside out.