8800 series owner, what are your Fan profiles?

[1ManArmY]

I know the temperature issue on the 8800 GT is a HOT topic so I wanted to see the range of profiles that people have set up using Riva Tuner in order to prevent heat becoming an issue in their Rig.

 

[JustaGeek]

45% Idle.

Fan Speed 60% > 65 (degrees C)
Fan Speed 75% > 70 (degrees C)

Crysis temperatures are about 72-75C with these settings on my system.

Fan is not that audible at 75% with other fans in my computer.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

I set my fan profiles to 40% idle, 60% at 60C, and 75% at 70C. The fan revs up to 75% after a few minutes of gaming and switches between that and 60%. So it's staying between 60-70C, which is pretty good.

 

[John]

As you probably know by now the 8800GT runs hot for a lot of people, but there are others with stock cooling seeing <80C under full load. Fan noise is also subjective, and the wimpy 60mm fan will start whining above 50% (my observance), so unless you have a noisy case you're probably not going to like >50%. The best thing to do is find out what your full load temps are when running ATITool artifact test, Crysis, 3DM, etc. and go from there. One of the main reasons I opted for a VF1000 is due to the extreme heat radiating from the 8800GT's factory hsf in my P182. Now that I've shaved 40C off the load temps my case and card are a lot happier. I also get to enjoy the silence.

 

[1ManArmY]

I'm still trying to gauge my idle temps because my custom fan profiles were not loading initially and the fan was running at 29%.

60% Idle

Fan Speed 80% > 55
Fan Speed 100% >65

 

[John]

What are your idle and full load temps?

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Here's my rivatuner autofan profile:

Duty cycle min: 34
Duty cycle max: 100
T min: 51
T range: 16
T operating: 90
T low limit: 0
T high limit: 100

 

[JustaGeek]

In the "Low level fan control", I clicked "start with Windows" on the "Manual Fan" at 45%, and made RiveTuner Start with Windows, too.

Also, remember to activate the Red Button for "Background Monitoring". Everything loads properly at startup this way.

 

[conlan]

Idle > 35%

50C > 45%

70C > 65%

80C > 80%

90C > 90%

100C > 100%

105C > Shutdown

I must have just got lucky with my 8800GT superclock, it rarely crosses 55C, the highest i've seen it is 65C under full Crysis load.

I wonder if case ventilation is playing a part in some folks high temps.

 

[swtethan]

100% all the time, of course its on my VF1000

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: conlan

I wonder if case ventilation is playing a part in some folks high temps.

Absolutely!

My computer's temps are higher than my wife's machine - the 7950GT SC idled at 54C in my case, but it idles at 46C on 775Dual-VSTA with the same E6600.

Same Centurion case, located in a different spot.

Basically, the 8800GT temps are now the same as 7950GT in my case.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: John
What are your idle and full load temps?

I'm still trying to gauge it because when I initially tested it the customized Fan profiles were not being loaded and it defaulted to 29% and at those settings I was idling anywhere from
54-57 and full load got up to 88-90. I will test later on tonight and report my findings.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
In the "Low level fan control", I clicked "start with Windows" on the "Manual Fan" at 45%, and made RiveTuner Start with Windows, too.

Also, remember to activate the Red Button for "Background Monitoring". Everything loads properly at startup this way.

for some reason after I would restart my computer and load RT it was set to autofan and none of profiles loaded so it was running at the default 29%. I went back to the inital fan speeds and I could load the fan profile by checking the fixed radio button but if it exceeded one of my thresholds the next profile did not load. I discovered that below the Enable low-level fan control in the Fan profile settings there was nothing selected so I selected custom fan profile and it now seems to be working.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek

Originally posted by: conlan

I wonder if case ventilation is playing a part in some folks high temps.

Absolutely!

My computer's temps are higher than my wife's machine - the 7950GT SC idled at 54C in my case, but it idles at 46C on 775Dual-VSTA with the same E6600.

Same Centurion case, located in a different spot.

Basically, the 8800GT temps are now the same as 7950GT in my case.

Prior to installing my 8800 GT I tested my old 7800 GTX with ntune and it seemed to idle @ 45-48 and under full load got up to 72, never exceeded 75 even after 13 hours at a Lan Party.

My Coolermaster case has good airflow 2 Fans in the front, 1 on top and 1 in the rear not including the PSU unit.

 

[AVP]

I just leave mine at 57% all the time. 47 idle, 72-74 load at 702/1647/1900.

PS. my room is pretty cold

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: 1ManArmY
I'm still trying to gauge my idle temps because my custom fan profiles were not loading initially and the fan was running at 29%.

60% Idle

Fan Speed 80% > 55
Fan Speed 100% >65

Well after testing the profiles above my GPU temps are as follows

60% Idle - 52 C
80% - 100% Full Load 68

 

[omek]

RivaTuner 2.06 @ 45% constant
8800GT 690/1000

49 idle / 67 load median / 72 load max

not too shabby for the stock cooler. Was reading that a nV associate stated 45% is the "sweet spot" for noise and cooling. It seems to be. The noise is just under that annoyance level @ 45.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: omek
RivaTuner 2.06 @ 45% constant
8800GT 690/1000

49 idle / 67 load median / 72 load max

not too shabby for the stock cooler. Was reading that a nV associate stated 45% is the "sweet spot" for noise and cooling. It seems to be. The noise is just under that annoyance level @ 45.

I tried to add a profile that started the fan at 45% but it screwed up the rest of my profiles so I left it at 60%.

 

[JBT]

46% idle and I ussually set it to 60% or 80% while gaming. I have head phones on so I really can't hear anything besides the game.

 

[1ManArmY]

Originally posted by: swtethan
100% all the time, of course its on my VF1000

How difficult was it to remove the stock cooling and replace it with the Zalman VF1000?

 

[requiem1]

Fan Speed 60% ALWAYS unless,
Fan Speed 80% > 70(degrees C)
Fan Speed 100% > 80 (degrees C)

I idle at 47C and load at 57C...max ever was 60C load.

 

[Seraphiel]

100% all the time. 2 * XFX 8800 Ultra XXX gets very hot even at stock. They weren't stabile until a week ago, when I cleaned them and tightened the HS.

 

[james1701]

I use 60% for surfing the net, and 100% for gaming. My OC is 750/1879/2000. Idle on 100% is 40C and load is 58C.

 

[zorrt]

<55 - 40%
55 - 50%
60 - 85%
75 - 100%

Only time when it gets to 85% is when im gaming and the speakers drowns out the sound. Rarely gets up to 100% though.