If your worried about heat, there are several programs out that monitor fan speed and temps, some free, others not. I use SpeedFan to monitor temps on my system. But since I have a desktop, heat is not a problem except with newer games like Civ V, mostly its to monitor fan speeds, since a bum fan has sunk my system twice, luckily before any damage occurred.
In SH4, I run around 2048-2500? when enemy contact is unlikely, and around 1024 during the day, when in enemy territory, and 512 at night in enemy territory. To many bad memories from SH3, running in high TC, at night, in a storm(not knowing it), and then plowing smack into a British destroyer or convoy.
IIRC, it had something to do with the checks made for your sensors, the higher the TC, the less sensor checks were performed, the less chance you had of being notified that a ship was spotted and automatically dropping out of TC. I actually rammed a British destroyer, at night in high TC, because it wasn't "spotted" until after we collided.
Although, since I have a better system now, I could probably run, and occasionally do, at higher TC, it is just that old habits, one's that don't get you killed, die hard.
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