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Reducing heat on idle Nvidia cards

WWEC

WWEC

WWEC

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Hello all,

Does anyone know of a utility that can underclock Nvidia cards (specifically the 6800GT) when idle?

I installed AMD's Cool'n'Quiet yesterday for the CPU which is helping with this insane weather, but my GT chucks out a ludicrous amount of heat even when it's doing nothing at all in Windows (around 61c in this heatwave).

I know I could downclock with coolbits, but it's a bit annoying having to restore the settings every time I play a game.

TIA :)
 
Umm... i dunno if coolbits can do it or not. (havent really checked)

But 61 degrees isnt all that bad, especially in a heatwave.
 
WWEC said:
I know I could downclock with coolbits, but it's a bit annoying having to restore the settings every time I play a game.
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You shouldn't have to - CoolBits has seperate 2D and 3D clock settings. 2D settings will be applied in Windows, 3D applied when you start a game. That's how I have mine set-up.
 
Do you use rivatuner, because i know you can set different fan speed and save them for start up in windows, 2d, 3d and desktop so that its not always 100% but if its hot you can set it to that because most 6800GT are extremely...warm... in this heat! :)
 
TheVoice said:
You shouldn't have to - CoolBits has seperate 2D and 3D clock settings. 2D settings will be applied in Windows, 3D applied when you start a game. That's how I have mine set-up.
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Doh - I completely forgot about the independent settings! Oddly enough though, I've now had "2D" at the lowest possible setting (88mhz) and the temp hasn't even flinched in three hours. It must be doing needless processing if my A64 can sit at 38c while this, in comparison, is fairly cooking :confused:


warren_1979 said:
61c is fine, thats what mine idles at some days. I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe have a look at your case fans and see if there is any excess dust in them.
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It's to help the room's temperature really, I don't care about the card's welfare :D
 
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