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6600GT and oddball nVidia control panel for it

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Guys, I have installed on a customers new PC the Gigabyte version of the nVidia 6600GT (GA-NX66T128D) and in the nVidia properties under "Temperature Settings" for the "Core slowdown threshold" it lists a phenomenal 145°C, which is almost THREE HUNDRED (300°F)!!! And, there's no way of changing it! (BTW, current idle temp is 48-49°C and I don'tknow if that's normal or not. That seems rather hot).

My (obvious) question is, does anyone know how to change that warning temp to something less than almost the melting point of lithium :laugh: , and is 49°C idle temp too high for it?

Thanks.
 
49C is fine. My 6600GT idles at 45C. GPUs have much higher heat tolerances than CPUs. The high end cards (6800Us, 7800GTXs) commonly reach the 70s/80s under load.
 
Originally posted by: Kalessian
Why not uninstall, clean, and reinstall a newer set of drivers?
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Well, I don't want to do that unless I'm sure that will fix the problem I mentioned because I just now got through formatting and installing XP, all drivers, setting up video and display settings, and everything is working flawlessly and stable. 🙂 I don't want to screw up a good thing with uninstalling and reinstalling. The newest drivers are installed.
 
Originally posted by: Insomniak
49C is fine. My 6600GT idles at 45C. GPUs have much higher heat tolerances than CPUs. The high end cards (6800Us, 7800GTXs) commonly reach the 70s/80s under load.
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Ok thanks.....so what do you think about the temp warning threshold being at 145° and it not being able to be changed? Can you change yours, and to what is yours set by default?

 
mine is 145'C as well, and it hits mid 80'Cs under load. AGP 6600GT.

Don't really worry tho, it seems fine (no heat artifacts) so thats what the warranty is for i guess 😉
 
Thanks guys. I forgot to mention this is a PCI-X card (if you couldn't tell from the model #. I changed it in my original post).
 
Originally posted by: computer
Originally posted by: Insomniak
49C is fine. My 6600GT idles at 45C. GPUs have much higher heat tolerances than CPUs. The high end cards (6800Us, 7800GTXs) commonly reach the 70s/80s under load.
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Ok thanks.....so what do you think about the temp warning threshold being at 145° and it not being able to be changed? Can you change yours, and to what is yours set by default?
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I can't change mine either, at it appears to be set default at 127C. I'm more than certain that the card would hard lock and you'd have to reboot the system well before you reached that point.


Melting PC parts with heat over extended periods is very very difficult. Usually the hardware will lock up and refuse to work well before it becomes permanently damaged. Damage occurs when you get electrical over/undervolts that in turn cause a LOT of heat to be produced in a VERY short time.

I wouldn't worry. The 6600GT is a .90nm chip, I'm sure it runs cool.


EDIT: And your card is PCI-E, not PCI-X. PCI-X is a server standard, different from PCI-E. Mine's PCI-E too (LeadTek).
 
127°C? I wonder why this one and Dug777's is 145°C? What driver version are you using? I forgot which version this is, but it's the latest from GB's website. Could be due to driver differences in the GB version and some other 6600GT version.?

Yep, PCI-E.
 
I am using Nvidia's reference driver (I never use the driver provided by the manufacturer, they fill them with too much bloatware), version 77.77 WHQL. Never bothered to update to 78.01 because there are no changes in that driver other than support for a new card that I don't have.


Anyway, temp threshold may be a setting determined by the card's BIOS, and it's entirely possible LeadTek chose a different setting from Gigabyte.


Whatever the reasons, as stated, I doubt either card would ever get anywhere near that temp before a system lock occurred.
 
FWIW, I put a BFG retail 7800GT in another customer's PC and it's running at 41-42°C @idle, but it has a "threshold warning" at 115°C and it also can't be changed.
 
Originally posted by: computer
FWIW, I put a BFG retail 7800GT in another customer's PC and it's running at 41-42°C @idle, but it has a "threshold warning" at 115°C and it also can't be changed.
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same here for 2 7800GTs, threshold warning is 115*C and is not changable.
 
You'd think nVidia would fix this obvious bug. Even "only" 115°C is almost 240°F!! 127 and 145° (almost 300°F) is insane.

What are you that are using the 7800GT's (Matt and whoever else) getting for temps under load? I haven't checked this one yet under load but I'm about to right now.
 
I just now started the PC and opened the nVidia temp display and it was only 35°. I ran PCMark04's "Graphics Suite", and each time it paused to where I could see the temps, they were: 40, 44, 46°. Never got above 46°. Didn't last very long though.

Can someone with a 6800GT and preferably a 7800GT compare your scores with this, I want to see if this setup is on par:

("Windows Media Encoder 9" is NOT installed)
This is with ALL of the nVidia 'ware NOT RUNNING, it was all disabled in MSCONFIG.

Total score: 8900
Transparent Windows: 1929.088 windows/s
Graphics Memory 16 lines: 3971.713 fps
Graphics Memory 32 lines: 2850.054 fps
3D Fill Rate Single Texturing: 4232.045 MTexels/s
3D Fill Rate MultiTexturing: 7921.409 MTexels/s
3D Polygon Throughput Single Light: 82.170 M Triangles/s
3D Polygon Throughput Multiple Light: 34.853 M Triangles/s
 
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