Who's got the Hottest 8800GT

Big.Wayne · 27 Nov 2007 at 18:45

Revived from the dustbin for the new 8800GT owners!

LoadsaMoney · 27 Nov 2007 at 20:13

warren_1979 said:
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.

Mine was about 82 when i came out of Crysis, seems fine to me, mines staying on auto, if they were not fine Nvidia wouldn't have done em like this.

Galea · 27 Nov 2007 at 20:52

LoadsaMoney said:
Mine was about 82 when i came out of Crysis, seems fine to me, mines staying on auto, if they were not fine Nvidia wouldn't have done em like this.

When you 'come out of' games the temperature readable easily gets quickly lowered by some 10 degrees than it was in the game. I know that because I tried it myself on my 8600GTS. It was always around 70 degrees after the game...

Download a program which logs your temperatures ingame. That way you can get a true view of the highest temperatures you're getting for that game. I discovered that my 8600GTS during Oblivion was 84 degrees, that way.

Camalot · 27 Nov 2007 at 21:13

Thanks, ive used rivatuner for temp profiles.

Ive got it at 60% all the time, when it hits 80deg, fan hits 80%, if it goes to 85deg, fan kicks in 100%.

I can hear the fan kick up to 80% when temp gets to 80deg so i know its working. One thing tho.

Shouldn't the bottom graph on riva tell me the current fan speed, which should be 60%?

ergonomics · 27 Nov 2007 at 21:27

my cards get too hot to play crysis. after about 45 minutes of play the game becomes really sluggish and performance is too bad to carry on.

this is due to them getting too hot? i havent got mega borked cards do i?

Big.Wayne · 27 Nov 2007 at 21:27

Camalot said:
Shouldn't the bottom graph on riva tell me the current fan speed, which should be 60%?

Hi Camalot,

I am guessing you haven't read the thread?

Post #93

Some of you guys really need to get stuck in lol, this thread is easy to flick through, pictures and everything laid on for you, couldn't get much easier!

Neal · 27 Nov 2007 at 22:29

Jihad said:
About 61 load here (OC'd), Accelero S1 with a Akasa exhaust about 5cm below it.

getting between 38 - 42c full load with 2x 120mm yate loons on the S1... :cool:

Neal · 27 Nov 2007 at 22:31

ignore the retard.....

Camalot · 27 Nov 2007 at 22:49

Big.Wayne said:
Hi Camalot,

I am guessing you haven't read the thread?

Post #93

Some of you guys really need to get stuck in lol, this thread is easy to flick through, pictures and everything laid on for you, couldn't get much easier!

Cheers Big wayne, i did read through but was trying to talk to the gf at same time so must have missed it haha!

Cheers mate you have been a good help today

Got my GT at 700mhz core, 1750mhz shaders and 1000mhz memory.

My 3D mark is actually higher with 700mhz core over 720! (11.9k)

And i have a 40.6fps average on crysis bench all high 1440x900

Quite happy at these results, thanks again for all the help

AgedIdiot · 27 Nov 2007 at 23:00

Any thoughts on the best place to place an additional fan?

Best position for stacker case has been 92mm case fan to suck air out of case ,positioned over exhaust section of card.
Difference ' as compared to blowing cool air over card - either end - about 2/4c only.
Had not thought of trying 'old' exhaust fan - looks as though may be way to go if your getting 10c drop.
Will give it a go and advise how it works for me

Dougsnake · 27 Nov 2007 at 23:22

Glad to see this thread as i was blasting away on crysis mp looked at nvtray setting reporting 94 degrees c i was like wtf so got rivatuner fired up set fan at 70% and temps stayed between 70 and 74 fan is just audible at this setting i use headphones when gaming so thats not a prob.
seems the auto fan setting is terrible/set too low the cooler seems more than capable but i dunno why nvidia allowed the crappy auto fan settings that low because anything above 90c is asking for trouble imo

platinum87 · 29 Nov 2007 at 18:35

ok so at first it was slightly high mabye idles at 60 degrees and went to around 70 at load. (random memory guesses)

ive used rivatuner to set the fan at 55% (i have antec 900 with all case fans on HIGH) and at like 55% the card sounds same as the fans.

anyway i was going to put up some pictures of rivatuner monitor, but idiot that i am i accidently closed the core temp after playing crysis to stress it for 20 min,

idle was at 44 degrees, and at load it went to 60-65 degrees which was maximum.

i think some of you need to increase your fan speeds.

i wouldnt even think of putting another cooler for atleast 1-2 months, and id like to know how effective the antec spotcool thing would be to aim it at the card (LIKE 1CM AWAY) if it would reduce the temps 10 degrees i would be very happy.

Big.Wayne · 29 Nov 2007 at 18:47

#95

Big.Wayne said:
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.

platinum87 said:
anyway i was going to put up some pictures of rivatuner monitor, but idiot that i am i accidently closed the core temp after playing crysis to stress it for 20 min

Do not pass GO, do not collect £200!

valerian · 29 Nov 2007 at 18:52

Big.Wayne said:
Didn't get chance to measure the thermals until last night but the whole card is freaking scorching hot when its been under full load. I don't know why but it appears my fan is not speeding up?

I'm keen to get some overclocking done now but with stock temps like that I think I will need to get something sorted out. The system its in is actually pretty cool so I would hate to imagine what would happen if someone put this card into a cramped overheating case?

Is everybody running the fan manually or what? I'm still trying to get my head around Rivatuner to see if I can automate the fan a bit better

Can't say I'm happy about the card running so hot, even though everything has been stable 94°C just seems to high lol!

[edit] There is some good information in this thread if your interest in how to cool your graphics card better, even if your not an 8800GT owner you may be able to pickup some handy 'know how' on using Riva Tuner etc.

just get rid of the stock cooler, you know its inevitable

Big.Wayne · 29 Nov 2007 at 18:55

valerian said:
just get rid of the stock cooler, you know its inevitable

Yeah that seems to be a good idea however not everyone will be happy doing that. Would you like to contribute anything further?

SupraWez · 29 Nov 2007 at 22:44

SpeedFan recorded a temp of 114degC on my BFG 8800GT OC today

There is a stupid sticker in the center of the fan which came off and got jammed in the fan, only noticed as my idle temps were showing 90+ and the fan speed adjustment was making no noise

Luckily looks like everything is ok, COD4 has stopped crashing, my idles are now 54degC

Big.Wayne · 30 Nov 2007 at 00:31

SupraWez said:
SpeedFan recorded a temp of 114degC on my BFG 8800GT OC today

That's Mental! :eek:

I have mine up to 108°C full load when I 'locked' the fan at 29%, no doubt about it these things are pretty tough.

I think a few people have had very high temps with the BFG cards, Will Hub seemed to think the fan stayed at 29% all the way up to 100°C.

The Inno card I am using ramps the fan a little better, up to 40% all the way to 100°C.

Anyone that isn't gonna mod the card with a 3rd party cooler should really use RivaTuner to cool the card a little better. . .

SupraWez · 30 Nov 2007 at 03:47

Big.Wayne said:
Anyone that isn't gonna mod the card with a 3rd party cooler should really use RivaTuner to cool the card a little better. . .

I am now using the OSD function in RivaTuner to display my core temp and FPS in COD4. Since I unblocked the fan the max I have seen is 75degC with the fan turned up.

valerian · 30 Nov 2007 at 08:42

Big.Wayne said:
Yeah that seems to be a good idea however not everyone will be happy doing that. Would you like to contribute anything further?

yeah, my gtx with the stock cooler was ridiculously hot in the 90s under load, sure the gpu could probably cope, but the extra heat in the case, the cooler supposedly blew it out the back, the cooler was noisy, the crappy thermal interface materials on the stock cooler when i pulled it off, ever likely it got hot, they looked like insulation not something to disperse heat.
the thermalright i put on dropped it by 30 degrees under load :eek:

yes it was a pain to put on, a real pain
i had to get the crud off the ram on the card and so on, but some decent thermal tape due to the thermalright stuff being crap, which means you haveto remove the tape from the new ram heatsinks - again a real pain. but overall worth it, i'd been a zalmam guy up until i could'nt get this Zalman ZM-RHS88 GeForce 8800 Series VGA RAM Heatsink, to go with their product, however i was never happy with how noisy zalmans can be on full, with this Thermalright HR-03-PLUS (8800 GTX) VGA Cooler you can put on your own 120mm fan (usually 92mm) which with the zalman you can't, ultimately if the zalman fan goes down the cooler probably needs replacing.
i'm not happy running a £350 investment that hot, this is the most expensive thing in most peoples cases.
anything to stop an RMA-lets not go there, no card for weeks, meaning you have to get a crappy one to tide you over!!

ps mine is BFG
running at 54 as we speak

and keep the stock cooler in case you have to send it back

platinum87 · 30 Nov 2007 at 15:11

thats after 1 hour of crysis, Fan is set to be 58% forever, stock cooler is fine, just should have been a bigger fan, too much noise past 60%, and i cant figure out how to make it increase to 75% or so when temps go above 55 or so