the precision program lets you manually adjust your fan curve. 70% ought to keep it closer to 80.

also important, check your PC power output, some PC's still come with crap 550W power plants when they should have 700 and this causes a lot of heat trouble on your machine. Maybe it's not that at all but check it out.

clean all the dust up from inside your PC

since you live in the basementr

Go down this checklist:

- Check your graphics settings. Make sure that the EVE client is running at "Interval One." I've found that this usually fixes a good chunk of EVE related graphics/heat issues.

- Update your GPU drivers. Sometimes the maker will find a way to optimize your GPU in performing certain tasks, meaning that it won't have to run as hard, for as long... thus shaving some degrees off your temperature gauge.

- Try to remember the last time you cleaned the inside of your PC. If it has been more than 6 months (3 months if you keep the tower on the ground), disconnect everything and remove all the components. Give special care to each part. Check the corners and hard to reach places too.

- Check the airflow of your computer by feeding a steady stream of smoke into your intake fans. You want to see the smoke quickly pass through with few "circular" motions and/or "stalls" (i.e. you don't want to air stream to hit anything that isn't another fan).
You also want to see the smoke quickly go to the CPU, GPU, and PCU as these are the major sources of heat within the computer.

- There are quite a few "self-contained" watercooling fans available on the market. However, they require a bit of knowhow to install so I don't recommend this for anyone who looks at the innards of a computer case and gets nervous.

Might want to consider replacing the factory thermal paste with artic silver 5, especially if the card is over a year old. Paste has a finite life. It will tend to dry and crack reducing thermal performance. I doubt, though it'll get you below 90c unless the heatsink wasn't mounted properly in the first place.

Next look at airflow. How warm is your case and cpu running. If they're all high, might be indicative of inadequate/improper airflow. You want at least 2 90 - 120mm fans on your case. One in, one blowing out.

If you have any pci cards in close proximity to the gpu fan, move them farther away if you can.

Could replace the stock heatsink with something aftermarket.

- There are quite a few "self-contained" watercooling fans available on the market. However, they require a bit of knowhow to install so I don't recommend this for anyone who looks at the innards of a computer case and gets nervous.

Graphics options.

Set interval to one ... or two.

Caps the fps at your screen refresh or half of it.

Will lower your temp, although it's not really an issue.


What you're moaning about is actually that CCP makes great use of the gfx card,
while others don't so much.

Modern video cards are made to run up to those temps.

A big part of why "Walking In Stations" is halted for the moment is the engine would melt down any GPU trying to render more than two avatars at once.

Arctic Silver 5 is electrically conductive which doesn't make it ideal for the exposed circuitry around the chips on a video card. It works well for CPUs since most modern CPUs have a IHS (Integrated Heat Shield) which protects the chip and makes installation easier. A non-conductive paste like Arctic Cooling MX-4, Noctua NT-H1 or Shin Etsu X23-7783D (if you can find it) are better alternatives. Plus you might get better performance from those pastes.