Nvidia tweaker

Looks alright. I now recommend MSI Afterburner though - very easy to set up with multiple graphics cards (it appears you can't use a different fan profile for each graphics card, but that doesn't bother me) and coming from Rivatuner was a dream.
 
miniyazz said:
Looks alright. I now recommend MSI Afterburner though - very easy to set up with multiple graphics cards (it appears you can't use a different fan profile for each graphics card, but that doesn't bother me) and coming from Rivatuner was a dream.
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You may not be able to set seperate fan profiles for each card, but.......if you manually set the fan profile to gradually rise as the temps increase it will monitor each card seperatly and adjust each individual cards fan accordingly.

For the record, this is now my application of choice for oc'ing and fan control.

I can't comment on whether it continues to run if you close the program as my WinXp set-up has gone a little wierd. None of my third party applications will save settings upon closing.........Any Thoughts? (I tried everything I can thinks of.....short of repairing Windows or a clean install).
 
loudbob said:
You may not be able to set seperate fan profiles for each card, but.......if you manually set the fan profile to gradually rise as the temps increase it will monitor each card seperatly and adjust each individual cards fan accordingly.

For the record, this is now my application of choice for oc'ing and fan control.
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Indeed, and this is fine for my current card layout. But if I had a couple of different classes of graphics card, each with differing operating temperatures (e.g. Fermi vs 5***) it could become a problem with one set of fans too loud or one set of cards too hot.

I can't comment on whether it continues to run if you close the program as my WinXp set-up has gone a little wierd. None of my third party applications will save settings upon closing.........Any Thoughts? (I tried everything I can thinks of.....short of repairing Windows or a clean install).
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Maybe a permissions thing? Have you accidentally removed write- policies on C:\Program Files or something? I'm mostly drawing a blank :confused:
 
Still prefer the fine grained control of Rivatuner, just wish he would keep the codebase up to date with the other apps he writes (MSI Afterburner/EVGA Precision, etc)
 
Rivatuner's a good program. It's just that as someone pointed out a while back, its user interface was designed by a dyslexic caveman. Setting up fan profiles is ridiculously complex, requiring you to set multiple events that are triggered by ascending or descending through set temperature points. It takes 5 minutes to set up each card if you know what you're doing, half an hour or more if you don't. I've only tried MSI Afterburner, and on my first attempt it took me under a minute to play around with different fan speeds and decide what thresholds I wanted for temperatures, and to set it up. Never looked back.
 
Dunno about fan profiles, I just set them manually and forget them :) Although it didn't seem that hard when I remember playing about with them once on a non foldy machine.
 
Biffa said:
Dunno about fan profiles, I just set them manually and forget them :) Although it didn't seem that hard when I remember playing about with them once on a non foldy machine.
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One of my issues with it was that since it was totally unfeasible to have quite a few small changes of fan speed because of how long it would take (i.e. I would get bored before finishing), there would be a very noticeable change in fan speed as it cranked up from 60-80% on hitting 70ºC, then 30s later would crank down again because 80% fan speed kept it on 68ºC and 60% on 75ºC. Or whatever. It's possible I got slightly bogged down in trying to increase fan speed at one temperature and trying to decrease fan speed at a temperature 5ºC below, and it started getting confused, I'm not sure. All I know is when I switched to MSI Afterburner and all i had to do was drag a line on a graph, it was very relaxing :D
I never had any problems with manually setting overclocks with Rivatuner, but did have the problem that it only restored one card's overclock on restart; I'd have to go into Rivatuner to set the other overclocks each system reboot.
 
i flashed my gtx 260
use nibitor to write the bios (you need to have a copy of your current bios saved)
use nvflash to flash the bios. (use this to save a copy of the current bios)
 
frozennova said:
Any ideas on the best way of flashing the clocks to the card, my 8800GT is running artifact free @ 600/900/1580
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The apps discussed in this thread should all set your card clocks how you want them each time you boot so you don't need to flash the card's bios.

You should also be able to run an 8800GT at 600/900/1800 without issues. I had mine at 600/900/1870.
 
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