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Who's got the Hottest 8800GT

I've set rivatuner up now with some temp/fan profiles. How do I make sure the card always sticks to this. Do I need to keep rivatuner permanently open now? Will it affect game performance?
 
Everyone that buys one of these cards should email nvidia and ask how they justify putting such **** poor cooling on a card known to get very hot; why not just add one of these fancy coolers that they could get at stock prices and add £10 to the cost.
 
My BFG OC 512MB was running at the temps first mentioned in this post.

I then used rivatuner to set 45% fan speed constant, as opposed to 29% at stock. I then manually adjust the fan speed to 70% when gaming, and back down to 45% a few minutes after quitting game.

Luckily i have no wires in the main chamber, and a huge CPU cooler. Furthermore it just so happens i have two small case fans almost directly above the card.

IDLE : 43 Degrees
Load : 57 Degrees give or take a few.
 
I then used rivatuner to set 45% fan speed constant, as opposed to 29% at stock. I then manually adjust the fan speed to 70% when gaming, and back down to 45% a few minutes after quitting game.
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Thats what I do but I'd like to know how to make rivatuner do it automatically like Spunj99 did on the previous page.
 
Man I was playing Crysis and came out of the game and the Core was at 86c. It must have been higher during gameplay. Crysis is one demanding game on the GPU might just leave it a 90% all game to be honest.
 
I have the BFG 8800GT OC and everest is reporting idle temp at the moment at 57c, full load after an hour of gaming or so it was at 82c. A bit higher than I would like for having 2x 120mm intakes (1 at lowest RPM as its loud - noctua thingy) and 2x 120mm exaust (inc PSU).
 
About 61 load here (OC'd), Accelero S1 with a Akasa exhaust about 5cm below it.

Silent of course since the Accelero is passive, not using the turbo module. (fans)
 
Jihad said:
About 61 load here (OC'd), Accelero S1 with a Akasa exhaust about 5cm below it.

Silent of course since the Accelero is passive, not using the turbo module. (fans)
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Is that with the Ozone3d benchmark? Seems to be the highest load so far, ATiTool or games like Crysis seem less.
 
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The stock cooler on my BFG 8800GT is silent. I sleep with my PC in my room and I can just about hear it if I raise my head and listen really carefully. (I do turn my case fans to minimum before I go to bed though).

Actually I say silent, but I am not sure if the slight noise I can hear is the 8800GT, PSU or the CPU - using a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro at MINIMUM speed (800RPM - set via bios), PSU is a corsair 520w and the 8800gt is at default RPM speed.
 
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Is that with the Ozone3d benchmark? Seems to be the highest load so far, ATiTool or games like Crysis seem less.
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With Ozone and ATi tool scanning it gets to about 69c and peaks there, haven't actually checked the temps it gets to for games yet, gonna run Crysis in a window and have a look in a bit.

:D Warren.
 
Hhm try keeping 2 of these cool in SLI :eek:
I'm getting around 85dg under load. gonna fit my exhaust fan between the 2 cards (if it fits) and see if that helps.

Ive got an 80mm fan blowing on them but that just seems to be blowing the hot air back onto the cards. Any thoughts on the best place to place an additional fan?

edit: exhause fan below the top card has shaved 10-12dgs off the load temp. Think I need another. lol
 
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