Okay, here's the situation. I was playing a game of Civ VI on Saturday using my old GTX 660. I'm around turn 550 and the game is just crawling - like 5 to 15 fps (playing on Steam which has a FPS monitor). Doorbell rings, I answer, UPS dropped off my new RX 480 - Yay!. Save the game, turn off the PC and change out video cards. Update graphics driver, and several reboots later I'm up and running again. Now instead of 5 - 15, it's capping out at 60 (my monitor refresh rate) and dips to high 50's on occasion. And I notice the turns feel "quicker".
The next day I start a new game. At first, all is well, but then after 4-5 hours I notice my frames are pegged at 30 and don't budge. I feel the vent on top of my case, where the CPU vents (definitely warm air) and behind my case by the video card, which has two large fans but not a blower type heatsink (I have a small blower type fan right below it though) and warm air is pouring out of the case. Boy, CIV VI is really hard on the CPU and graphics card I'm thinking.
So did my video card and cpu throttle down to lower speeds? How can I find out? Graphics, as noted is a Gigabyte RX 480 4gb and CPU is i5 2500k @ 4.2 Ghz.
The next day I start a new game. At first, all is well, but then after 4-5 hours I notice my frames are pegged at 30 and don't budge. I feel the vent on top of my case, where the CPU vents (definitely warm air) and behind my case by the video card, which has two large fans but not a blower type heatsink (I have a small blower type fan right below it though) and warm air is pouring out of the case. Boy, CIV VI is really hard on the CPU and graphics card I'm thinking.
So did my video card and cpu throttle down to lower speeds? How can I find out? Graphics, as noted is a Gigabyte RX 480 4gb and CPU is i5 2500k @ 4.2 Ghz.
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