Hi there,
As it says above i have just got hold of my new card and fitted it. It is a golden sample card. although what difference that makes really i dont know. It has gone into my 1ghz athlon system with 512 meg ram. I have some questions which due to living out of the country i am having some problems answering.
Firstly
1)I dont know how hot my system should be now, seems very warm. it runs at 50c for the mobo and 60 for the processor when underload. i dont know if this is too hot. i know this is not strictly a video card issue. but i think the new card has pushed up the temp. is it worth adding an exhaust fan to help cool the thing down? At the mo i have the sides of the tower off.
2)I had some probelms with my drivers when installing. its a gainward card and when it was all installed the utility with it seemed to conflict with dx8.1 resulting in some games like il2 and morrowind not running. once i removed the utility and installed nvidias reference 28.32 driver, things seemed much better and i can overclock with rivatool. will i still get the best results this way or with the utility that the card shipped with?
3)I have 3dmark2001, but i dont seem to have an option on it to check the card. am i looking in the wrong place?
4)is is worth upgrading from 28.32 to 28.42 drivers?
5) i am not sure what speed to push for on my card. its just humming along at the moment at 280/580. its fine. But if i try and push it wont it raise the overall tempreture of my system? see point one.
6) is it worth adding a ups aswell to stop power spikes. i think i could get a small one for free from work.
Thanks to everyone for giving me any help. Its much appreciated. I am only feeling my way along her as you can probably tell.
Cheers
Rossco
As it says above i have just got hold of my new card and fitted it. It is a golden sample card. although what difference that makes really i dont know. It has gone into my 1ghz athlon system with 512 meg ram. I have some questions which due to living out of the country i am having some problems answering.
Firstly
1)I dont know how hot my system should be now, seems very warm. it runs at 50c for the mobo and 60 for the processor when underload. i dont know if this is too hot. i know this is not strictly a video card issue. but i think the new card has pushed up the temp. is it worth adding an exhaust fan to help cool the thing down? At the mo i have the sides of the tower off.
2)I had some probelms with my drivers when installing. its a gainward card and when it was all installed the utility with it seemed to conflict with dx8.1 resulting in some games like il2 and morrowind not running. once i removed the utility and installed nvidias reference 28.32 driver, things seemed much better and i can overclock with rivatool. will i still get the best results this way or with the utility that the card shipped with?
3)I have 3dmark2001, but i dont seem to have an option on it to check the card. am i looking in the wrong place?
4)is is worth upgrading from 28.32 to 28.42 drivers?
5) i am not sure what speed to push for on my card. its just humming along at the moment at 280/580. its fine. But if i try and push it wont it raise the overall tempreture of my system? see point one.
6) is it worth adding a ups aswell to stop power spikes. i think i could get a small one for free from work.
Thanks to everyone for giving me any help. Its much appreciated. I am only feeling my way along her as you can probably tell.
Cheers
Rossco
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