Who's got the Hottest 8800GT

[Talrinys]

By setting up your temperature limits/fan speeds correctly, the 30% would kick in when using Windows because the temperatures are far lower than whilst gaming.

My fan runs at 30% until the card trips 65 degrees, 50% when it trips 75 and 65% when it trips 85. World in Conflict, max details, 1600 x 1200, played for 3 hours straight did not trip the 65% fan and when the game is closed down, the temps reduce quickly and the lowest fan speed kicks in as my card idles at 55 degrees.

A bit of tweaking will get what you're after.

Yeah thanks, those settings sound great and i'll go him and plug them into Riva I always listen to loud music anyway. Is the S1 able to cool it that good passively, seems incredible?

 

[fornowagain]

 

[willhub]

Stock cooler?

 

[Raikiri]

Accelero S1 + 120mm fan running fur stability thing for 10 minutes

 

[steve258]

My Gainward topped 85C with stock clocks and cooler after running the stability test for 30 mins, will update screeny later. Didn't change the fan speed just left it stock so presumably it's running at 40%

 

[Talrinys]

Alright seeing as i can't get my GT to higher clocks than the ones in my sig no matter what the temperatures are, i don't see a point in upgrading to a better cooler, unless i want to try my luck at voltmodding.

 

[fornowagain]

Stock cooler?

Yes.

 

[willhub]

Yes.

Not half bad temps then.

 

[Tasocahtfu]

EDIT: Forgive me - should have read the thread fully!

Post below still valid though!

 

[Tasocahtfu]

Also, I've just added the fan duty cycle graph, and it says 100% all the time. That normal? How do I add the fan speed graph as in one of the screenie's above, can't seem to see it in the list?

Cheers

 

[Spunj99]

Orange line is 80% fan trigger @ > 65 (will probably knock this down to 60%) and red line is 100% fan trigger at 85 degrees (might knock this up to 95).

Whatcha think? Trying to find a nice balance between coolness and quietness.

(N00b question alert; I don't need to keep RivaTuner open to use these fan profiles do I!?)

 

[Big.Wayne]

You need to put your mouse over the graph in Riva and right click and click set-up. Then have a look at the figures and set the lower and upper levels appropriately (I circled them in red below).

You may as well do this for all the charts you use, config them so they make sense.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Also, I've just added the fan duty cycle graph, and it says 100% all the time. That normal? How do I add the fan speed graph as in one of the screenie's above, can't seem to see it in the list?

Yeah that got me as well. That one doesn't work for some reason so uncheck it.

On the bottom right hand corner of the monitoring window you will see a box called [Setup] click that then click [plugins] and then make sure the ADT7473.dll plugin is checked, that should do it!

 

[Tasocahtfu]

Thanks for the help mate

 

[Big.Wayne]

Thanks for the help mate

No probs,

Make sure you set these basic options also, that will help you avoid closing Riva Tuner by mistake.

Check you have clicked the little red 'record' button on the bottom left of the monitoring page, to ensure the temps are still being recorded even if the hardware monitoring window isn't open.

I enclose a suggestion for the standard screenie, adjust your Rivatuner Hardware Monitoring page so that it looks the same as the picture below.

The values to the left of the graphs are roughly the correct high & low points (i.e Core Clock 600.00 - 750.00 lower and higher limit!). Those extreme overclockers amoungst you may need to set even higher maximums!

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If your feeling too lazy to manually adjust the settings via the option you can right click on a particular graph and select [Scale to Fit] or just use the levers placed to the left of the graph. Maximums will still have to be configured via the option page I posted above.

Thanks fornowagain for the ideal of making the Core temperature graph bigger (taller) and the other non-essential graphs smaller (but still readable), I was having problems before because there wasn't enough room to show all the different readings!

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

OT: Big.Wayne why do you add the light effect to your screenshots?

 

[Big.Wayne]

OT: Big.Wayne why do you add the light effect to your screenshots?

Dunno? why not?

Now stay on topic otherwise you will be shot!

 

[Tasocahtfu]

Sounds like some good advice, thanks again

 

[dagwoood]

The above is a five minute run of the fur benchmark with the fan controlling it's speed via the cards BIOS. The centre line shows the point where the core temp was at its highest (95c) and in the corresponding graphs below, the value when the temp was the highest; ie the fan had spun up to 43.5%.


Now, the below is another 5 minute run of the benchmark but I manually set the fan speed to a fixed 50%.

Just by setting the fan to run at a constant 50% has knocked 10c of the max temp to keep it in the mid 80's. At 50% the fan noise isn't that obtrusive and it keeps the temps at more respectable value.

I'll try it at 60% and post back.

 

[dagwoood]

Below is a run with the fan speed set to a fixed 60%:

At 60% the max temp was 80c and from the look of the graph, the temp had levelled out and was constant. The fan noise was a lot more noticeable though.