After an hour of searching forums and blogs about the noisy fans and hot video cards since Incarna's incarnation, I tooled around with every setting one-by-one concerning graphics on the menu. The only thing that put the fans on the GPU at a tolerable db was to change the Present Interval to default. Anything lower would seem to drag.

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yea i was happy when i figured this out too. interval immediate simply made my card overheat, at the expense of some really sweet fps. (150-200). capping your frames prevents overheating.

Get an air conditioner for the room you are in

^My solution^

I have central air, but the office is on the 2nd floor with a large window facing tthe sun most of the day. I bought a window unit, but after a couple weks I got a leeter from the home owners association telling me to remove it. So I bought this. Around $300 dollars.

*Disclaimer* Not current setup.

^My solution^

I have central air, but the office is on the 2nd floor with a large window facing tthe sun most of the day. I bought a window unit, but after a couple weks I got a leeter from the home owners association telling me to remove it. So I bought this. Around $300 dollars.

*Disclaimer* Not current setup.

Syncing the frame rate is the way to go - as eve does not need >60fps - it's limited not by your twitch reflexes but the server.
I've had great success at setting the affinity of the CPU to the last one in the system
Nvidia make great GPU's for gamers
ATI make great GPU's for other use.
YMMV

I've had great success at setting the affinity of the CPU to the last one in the system

Radeon HD6970 - 2703 GFLOPS
Geforce GTX 580 - 1581.1 GFLOPS

Radeon HD5870 - 2720 GFLOPS (some of that processing power wasted in VLIW5 design)
Geforce GTC 480 - 1088.64 GFLOPS

Radeon HD4890 - 1360 GFLOPS (VLIW5 again)
Geforce GTX 285 - 1062.720 GFLOPS


the new Radeon HD7970 is rumored to have 4096 GFLOPS processing power, at only 190W TDP - that's 21.5 GFLOPS/watt, double the 6970's efficiency, or 4x the thermal efficiency of the GTX580

No offense, but ... ATI fanboy spotted. ^^

as someone who has written graphic engines before... LOL

nVidia silicon is utter and complete garbage, i got sick and tired of coding around their inability to properly implement OpenGL/Direct3D in software, or various algorithms correctly in silicon. not to mention their completely inability to manage the thermal design of their cards. they've NEVER known their posterior from a hole in the ground when it came to TDP management.

ATI cards on the other hand have always had a pure horsepower advantage since the tail end of the Rage series, and have always properly managed their thermal output (with one notable exception: the HD 2xxx series, which they admitted straight out they f'ed up). Now, the reason you see nvidia cards sporting 3-5 more FPS is ATI spends this extra computing power on image quality instead of "MOAR FPS! BETTAR FPS!" on default settings.*


let's go with the highest single chip designs from the last few generations - at factory clock rates

i'm clustering them by generation - backwards from current

Radeon HD6970 - 2703 GFLOPS
Geforce GTX 580 - 1581.1 GFLOPS

Radeon HD5870 - 2720 GFLOPS (some of that processing power wasted in VLIW5 design)
Geforce GTC 480 - 1088.64 GFLOPS

Radeon HD4890 - 1360 GFLOPS (VLIW5 again)
Geforce GTX 285 - 1062.720 GFLOPS


the new Radeon HD7970 is rumored to have 4096 GFLOPS processing power, at only 190W TDP - that's 21.5 GFLOPS/watt, double the 6970's efficiency, or 4x the thermal efficiency of the GTX580


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* i would point out that past a certain point differences in FPS make less of a difference in actual eye perception (ie it's hard for the eye to really distinguish between 24 and 60 fps - it can with difficutly, beyond 60 it really cannot). if your physics engine uses FPS as it's tick rate then you can get some difference from that - because physics engines act like a Riemann sum with FPS=n. the human eye is incredibly good at picking out errors in arcs - 1 arcsecond error perception - however very few things in most games are going to trigger that perception

Too bad CCP codes for Nvidia. They even implement things that don't work in ATI cards.

Other things you can try is setting the CPU affinity of exefile.exe in your taskmangar
to one cpu only ... best to use CPU 0, because in a hyperthreaded system setting it
to one of the virtual CPUs gives a bad result. ^^

EvE isn't really good at multithreading (read: none) and i've noticed an actual
slowdown when NOT setting the affinity ... windows task management has it's issues here.

So this puts a bit less strain on your CPU and results in a slightly better performance,
but i don't know if you'd notice anyway.

btw ... your "default" sounds like you have vsync activated in your gfx settings,
i believe the same result can be achieved by setting the interval to one ?
Just saying, in case something changes one day.

What you ALSO can do is, in your gfx settings, use custom settings and override the application ones ...
and then set them to specific needs, like a specific low-cost-AA or something.
At your resolution, for example, i believe 4x is already sufficient, maybe even 2x ... still much less work to do.

Please note that you have to have AA enabled in your escape menu in EvE,
even when you override application settings in your gfx driver,
else it won't work at all or give you borked results.

Hope it helps. Turning down AA would be my number one option,
considering your resolution.

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This has nothing to do with nVidia vs' ATi/AMD... period. Developing at this level is a whole different ball game and you can't please every singe hardware combination/configuration. I have been building and configuring servers, workstations, and gaming PC's for almost 12 years and this is just part of the game.

i'm clustering them by generation - backwards from current

Radeon HD6970 - 2703 GFLOPS
Geforce GTX 580 - 1581.1 GFLOPS

No. You silly bunny. It's the card design. And your poor cooling. Don't object to the laws reality 'with I am ex-marine, I karate kid, I build computers'.

owned 4 ati cards, 3 nvidia cards

2 nvidia cards burnt - can't add nothing.

Go ride the HYPE train and pay more for the BAND wagon front seat.

Heat issues - cooling. Fan too loud - crappy fan :P, not enough cooling.

Here's a simple fix.

Turn that crap off.