Okay, just ran Crysis at the following settings:

1920x1200, Anti-Aliasing x4, Everything on Very High setting.


My results, while playing Crysis on the first mission, in a firefight over the course of one minute:

Frames

Time (ms)

Min

Max

Avg
1791

          60000

23

  36

29.85

My computer was running at ~54C the whole time. That is 6C lower than when playing Torchlight :x


1920x1200, at High Settings, x4 AA,

I had roughly the same temperatures,

Frames

Time (ms)

Min

Max

Avg
3190

           60000

42

72

53.167


Hmmm... may just be the software, like you guys have said.