There is also that I've yet to join the SSD club, but according to the mod's comments supposedly even HDD folks can see improvement, especially if they're running a lot of mods.
Worth a shot, and I like that I can cap off the graphics card at whatever I want for loading, just in case setting it completely free gets a little too hot.
I leave mine as is and it doesn't appear to get too hot. I have 1080 but don't have extra cooling. I just have case fans and stock Intel CPU cooler which everybody says sucks but seems to be working fine for me.
I think my GPU can get to like 70C when playing Fallout 4. CPU seems to stick at about 40-50 when playing games. Going off memory because I'd kept monitoring programs running when the PC was new.
It will still benefit HDD, I expect it would make the loading times more consistent with non-Bethesda games which don't tie game loading to FPS. I just also mentioned SSD as that can be a big help for when loading into very large settlements with many plots. I played on Xbox before seen the loading times there and decided to buy an SSD. Also my old laptop when playing Skyrim can sometimes have
as much as half of my playing time be loading screens. Like 3-5 minute loading screens on fresh new games, even without installing that many mods I probably had about 30.
I do wonder if on an HDD the GPU load would be more intense when using this mod.
Yes, I tweaked the mod's ini file to cap in-game at 60 FPS just because Bethesda games physics seem to go wonky over 60fps anyway. At the load screen its reporting about 265 or so fps at most, but it varies quite a bit.
It can vary a lot depending on hardware, settings and mod setup. I see anywhere from 100-500+ depending. Maybe 600 but that's if I've got like almost no mods such as when troubleshooting/doing clean save as well as keeping some settings down. In that case it can be close to instant most of the time, although of course mods are at least half the fun so I've got a whole bunch installed. At least it keeps things reasonable still, even with 4k, high settings, quite a few mods.
I leave in-game at 60 always. It works best at that framerate and I am fine with 60. In fact I don't really want to try running games at 120/144hz since it's hard to maintain that kind of frame rate, I don't want to get used to it then have to get used to less again.