Controlling nVidia Fan Speed

[JonB]

Hi There,

Just wondering if there is another way to control the fan speed of an nVidia graphics card (mine is a 7900GTO) other than tools nVidia provide? It seems to have no effect which setting I use and its annoying. My fan is always running at full speed and makes my computer sound like a hoover!

Thanks.

 

[Ben M]

Rivatuner controls GPU fan speed IIRC

 

[mishima]

Yeah I would opt for Rivatuner too.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Rivatuner lets you set up fan profiles.

http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner

 

[Alex_6n2]

Just done this today with RivaTuner. Nice and easy There's a link to a guide in the "Hottest 8800GT" thread

Edit: That one ^^

 

[JonB]

Annoyingly changing fan settings in RivaTuner has no effect either. I'm running the latest drivers and WinXP SP2. Fresh install today. Any suggestions?

 

[Skyboat]

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=47184

 

[Ben M]

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=47184

lots of happy customers there i see!

 

[JonB]

Unfortunately my problem is slightly different. I get a full speed fan some the second I switch the pc on, not when I hit windows or after waking the pc up from sleep!

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Driver issue then, and according to that thread, Nvidia's gona fix it before the new year, its the 5th Jan today, so which year were they on about.

 

[JonB]

Bah. Probably 2009

 

[Skyboat]

If you're feeling a little savvy you could mod your card's BIOS with NiBiToR then re-flash it, there's separate speeds for 2D, 3D and Throttle(?), by default they're all set to 100%.

http://www.mvktech.net is the best site for all that stuff

 

[JonB]

Thanks. Too tired to read all that at the moment, though, but if this carries on doing my head in I might just consider it!