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RyanPaulShaffer

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I have been hearing rumblings of the 8800GTs running pretty hot because the fan speeds don't ramp up according to the temperature, and it's locked at a constant 29%. I downloaded nTune, and it's pretty neat and all, allowing me to ramp up my fan speed (I keep it around 50%...cools it down about 10-15 degrees Celsius).

The annoying thing is, I have to change the fan speed every time I start my computer up, because nTune doesn't save the settings. I'm hitting Apply when I boost up the fan speed...am I doing something wrong, or is this just a quirkiness with nTune/8800GT?

Any idea when/if BFG is going to release an update so that their 8800GT properly ramps up the fan speed? I didn't see anything on their site this morning.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Capt Caveman

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Download Rivaturner. You can save your fan speed and Rivatuner can start-up on Windows Start-up to your set fan speed.
 
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Use Riva Tuner, make a fan profile with the fan at 50% and then save it. After that open hardware monitoring, right click on core temperature and click setup. Then click the green cross the "add new threshold'' thing, and set the temperature to 60 C. Then select "launch item" on upward threshold crossing, and select the fan profile you have done earlyer. Make another fan profile with the fan at 29% and use this as an downward threshold crossing. After this click ok, and remember to have the ''background monitoring'' button pressed all the time. Then set Riva Tuner to run at startup. And now every time your card reaches 60 C the fan will spin at 50%, when the temperature droppes bellow 60 C it will spin at 29%. I hope you understand my very quick guide, and enjoy the low temperatures.
 
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RyanPaulShaffer

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Thanks for the info! I will have to check out RivaTuner tonight. Does it support the latest beta drivers (169.12), or will I have to go back to 169.02 for RivaTuner to work right? It says it supports the 169.xx family, but then it only specifically mentions 169.02, 169.04, etc.

Also, anybody know if there is going to be a real fix for this from NVIDIA or BFG?
 
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Rivatuner supports any driver out there, just not "offically" (I mean, this is freeware we are talking about, nothing is ever offical), meaning it will give you a warning the first time you run it with drivers that it doesn't technically know about. Not a problem, but I'm still using 169.02 as 169.12 crashed on me pretty quickly.
 
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RyanPaulShaffer

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Bump...any new info for this? RivaTuner didn't work for me, and it's getting old to have to keep remembering to bump up my fan speed every time I turn the computer on with nTune. Has BFG/NVIDIA released a fix for this problem yet?
 
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RyanPaulShaffer

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I followed the directions that error8 posted. It wouldn't let me do one part of it...I would have fan profiles saved, but it would let me select them in the Temp Threshold dropdown or whatever.

I'd prefer to avoid RivaTuner and just have the problem fixed! Any word on if BFG/NVIDIA is going to address this issue? Having a fan locked at a low fan speed, regardless of temp, is a pretty big bug...
 
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The thing is that the fan speeds up, but ONLY when the temperature is over 90 C!!! I believe that Nvidia made this card to run hot, and it is probably safe for this GPU to run around 80-90 C, but we just don't want to understand this. I'm sorry for my guide which was written very very quick, so I must have missed something in the process, but without my intention. The link posted by angry hampster is the long version of my guide, and probably much easier to follow. Use that and you will surely ramp up the speed of the fan.
 
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RyanPaulShaffer

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I will try the guides at home later, but what I really want is this problem to be fixed! 80-90C...you could fry bacon on that thing!

Mmm...bacon...
 
MTDEW

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Evga just released new bios's for their cards to change the fan speed settings.
But they still dont speed the fan up as fast as i'd like.

So its probably just a matter of time before people compare the new bios's to the old bios's and how to change any 8800GT bios to make the fan speeds the way they should have been in the first place.

Last i read, there should be a new version of NIBITOR soon that will allow us to set the fan speeds to what we want.

I also read that Nvidia's drivers have some to do with the fan speed settings also (combined with the cards bios settings)

So im not sure exactly how much control we'll ever have over the 8800GT fan speeds.

It seems to me that the low fan speed on the 8800GT cards is not a "bug" as some may think.
Its to keep the 8800gt cards from being overclocked too much.

Its deliberate on Nvidia's part to try and keep a performance gap between the 8800GT and "new" 8800gts , otherwise it throws their whole performance/pricing tiers out the window...LOL

Of course thats just my opinion.
But ive never seen a card run so hot because of such a low stock fan speed before.
Even if the high temps wont hurt the cards, why do it when theres really no need for them to run that hot in the first place.


Ok, ive got my flame suit on now , waiting for replies. :laugh:
 
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thilanliyan

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Originally posted by: MTDEW
It seems to me that the low fan speed on the 8800GT cards is not a "bug" as some may think.
Its to keep the 8800gt cards from being overclocked too much.

Its deliberate on Nvidia's part to try and keep a performance gap between the 8800GT and "new" 8800gts , otherwise it throws their whole performance/pricing tiers out the window...LOL
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Or it could be just so they can say they got a quiet card.
 
MTDEW

MTDEW

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Yeah but you could have set the fan speed at 50% and its barely audible.
No more audible than my 8800GTX was.
 
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RyanPaulShaffer

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What is this link telling me? I see some hex values, but nothing I really get. What site is this? This isn't an official NVIDIA site it looks like...

Also, there is an audible difference between 29% and 50%. However, I'd much rather have a slightly louder WHIRR noise than have my card cook at 90C!

Originally posted by: MTDEW
You can read up on how the new bios settings are coming along HERE
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MTDEW

MTDEW

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What is this link telling me? I see some hex values, but nothing I really get. What site is this? This isn't an official NVIDIA site it looks like...
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What they are doing is checking how Evga modified their bios's to get the fan speeds on their cards to slowly speed up as the temp increases to keep the cards cooler.

Once its figured out, they will update the NIBITOR program to allow us to set what temp we want a certain fan speed to "kick in".

In other words....people are working on a solution to the fan speed problem as we type. :thumbsup:
 
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angry hampster

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You don't need to have it locked at 50%, either. I'm not sure why you're so hard against using RivaTuner, Ryan. It's great software..a helluva lot better than the Nvidia control panel.
 
MTDEW

MTDEW

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You don't need to have it locked at 50%, either. I'm not sure why you're so hard against using RivaTuner, Ryan. It's great software..a helluva lot better than the Nvidia control panel.
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I'll agree with that one.
Once you follow the guide and set the fan speeds with Rivatuner it does exactly what you want.

But i do see his point, it would still be nice to have it fixed permanently.

And people are working on it, and once its as simple as editing/updating the bios, i'll do that method instead.

Until then Rivatuner is the best solution.
 
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angry hampster

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Originally posted by: MTDEW
You don't need to have it locked at 50%, either. I'm not sure why you're so hard against using RivaTuner, Ryan. It's great software..a helluva lot better than the Nvidia control panel.
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I'll agree with that one.
Once you follow the guide and set the fan speeds with Rivatuner it does exactly what you want.

But i do see his point, it would still be nice to have it fixed permanently.

And people are working on it, and once its as simple as editing/updating the bios, i'll do that method instead.

Until then Rivatuner is the best solution.
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It would be nice to have it bumped up from the factory, but I love the flexibility and control power than Riva lets you have. I used RivaTuner with my old card (8600GTS) without playing with the fan speeds at all -- I prefer its overclocking interface to ATITool.
 
MTDEW

MTDEW

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RyanPaulShaffer,
If you just want something simple and easy to use that will set the fan speed for you then try the Gainward expert tool.

Its not as nice and doesnt have as many features as rivatuner, but its easy to use and theres no need to follow a guide.




 
MTDEW

MTDEW

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angry hampster,
Yep, im one of those who like to "tweak" the heck out my stuff too.

But what some of us may call fun (spending days tweaking everything in our pcs), other may just view as a waste of their time.

I can understand that some people arent as interested in pc's and just simply want stuff to "work the way it should".

Nothing wrong with that, thats what they paid for.
 
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