8800GT Overclocking

[mattyj1085]

I used to use RivaTuner but the automatic fan control didnt work, it was on auto with a minimum fan speed of 45% which worked ok but obviously fried my card when playing games for any length of time, escecially as the card was running at 700 core 1000 memory.

I installed Ntune yesterday and it seemed great, auto fan control worked and I had it running at 700 1000. I turned on my pc this morning and the settings did not save, when i try to save the profile to load on startup I get errors and then it froze in windows for some reason (XP)

Now i find articles on the net about Ntune is a piece of junk.

What software for XP will auto control my the fan and save profiles?


Thanks

 

[Greebo]

Rivatuner but you have to set up profiles like "if temp hits x, raise fan speed to y"

There's a full guide on here how to do it.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=265483

It worked for me.

Ad yes ntune is a pile of doggy poo poo.

 

[mattyj1085]

thanks mate, great guide. just got mine at the following

0-50c fan 40%
50-60 fan 50
60-70 fan 60
70-80 fan 70
80-90 fan 80
90-100 fan 90

 

[Greebo]

thanks mate, great guide. just got mine at the following

0-50c fan 40%
50-60 fan 50
60-70 fan 60
70-80 fan 70
80-90 fan 80
90-100 fan 90

Looks about right, can't remember what mine was before watercooling it.

I think I didn't do as many steps and since i found mine at 60% wasn't that noticable I just went for that until temps hit 80c.

You might want to put it on 100% for over 90c though, your card really shouldn't be getting to that temp even in furmark.

But the more steps the better IMO.

 

[mattyj1085]

set 90-100c to 100% fan now.

How do you minimise it to tray and have the core temp showing on the icon? I have found settings - set to tray on close, but would like to see the temp there if possible

 

[Greebo]

Can't remember, I will have to check tonight as mine does it soI must have switched it on somewhere

 

[mattyj1085]

Tried that furmnark. Highest the temp gets to is 76c after about 20 minutes. The fan is at 60% though and then hardware monitoring reports it jumps to 90% a couple of times instead of going to 70% fan speed

 

[badbob]

I've had no luck at all with my 8800GT, I think it's alright and then games crash. Accelero S1 + 12cm fan so no way it's overheating. 40 on idle now

 

[MikeHunt79]

I've had no luck at all with my 8800GT, I think it's alright and then games crash. Accelero S1 + 12cm fan so no way it's overheating. 40 on idle now

I'm running the same setup, what speed is your 120mm fan? I find 600rpm works well...

 

[badbob]

Probably 700/800 rpm.

 

[mattyj1085]

I've had no luck at all with my 8800GT, I think it's alright and then games crash. Accelero S1 + 12cm fan so no way it's overheating. 40 on idle now

Im the same, i bench for hours on crysis, 3dmark or whatever then itll randomly crash like an overheat in cod4 multiplayer (even though it hasnt overheated)