The 8-series cards (esp the higher end ones) are made to withstand up to 100c temperatures (and more). GPU's in general have a far higher tolerance to heat as compared to CPUs.

'Hot' yes in the literal sense, but not 'Hot' as in there's something wrongggggg.

Some reduction in temperature is not bad. I'm just thinking that these nice card should not be running at full speed even at 2D mode!!! No doubt the lifespan won't be much different but I think downclocking the card for 2D use is a good practice. Imagine having a 8800 GTS/GTX running full speed 24/7 but using the rig for bittorrent!!!

Anyway, I'm going to find out more about downclocking the 8800 GTS..... even now, my rig is at idle (running folding, idle GC) but the GC is running at an unnecessary full speed setting of 512/792.....

At work now, going to find a stable downclock when I get home.......

this downcclocking thing is very interesting.....

kmarc...dont forget to post guides and results once uve done ur homework yah

Sure.

Remember that previous generations of GC has lower 2D settings and higher 3D settings. I just can't understand why the newest generation can't do that!!!

Going to ask Nvidia about this, looks like they have a forum at their website too....

ya caused the fan like turbo.. how can i forget..
i think it's run slower speed in 2d just report the max speed..
if not sure the temp also high in idle..

Go ahead and pick 100 8800GTS cards. I'm pretty sure if there is no 100% manual fan speed overwrite via 3rd party software, all cards runs at 70'C++ idle temperature.

well, quite an interesting topic u have ther, downclocking the gpu might save u a bit current i guess...


can't understand what u trying to say here... most 8800gts idle at around 60'c with adequate ventilation... u can use rivatuner to set the fan at watever speed u want... it's in low level setting...

wrong and wrong and wrong...

running 8800gts (621/2016) with 'idle' at 65dC (fan at default 60%)

note there is technically no 2d mode for vista, hence the 'idle' mode is actually running at speed above

hey.i would like 2 ask can these 2 psu st56f n st56zf @ 560W support 640MB 8800GTS?

yes....those PSUs can support the 8800GTS 640

mine st56f support 8800gtx oc ngam ngma

coz the pci power ready

This post has been edited by k8118k: Aug 27 2007, 04:42 PM

Apparently, the 8800GTS only need a 400w PSU (I guess must be a good brand with proper TRUE power version) with the 12v rail at least 26A. I'm using an enermax liberty 500w and no problems so far.....

This post has been edited by kmarc: Aug 27 2007, 04:49 PM

i thought liberty got dual 12v rail.. mine 20A 20A.. for 400W
no stability issue on current setup..

anyone know nvidia gonna release 8700 ?

How you know it is ngam ngam?

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Added on August 27, 2007, 5:30 pmwhere did you get the info?

This post has been edited by Mightypc: Aug 27 2007, 05:30 PM

Yeah, dual rail. Each one with 22A but total 32A.....

If the 8700 will double sp and bus width i think it should beat HD2950PRO.

great...at last i can save my PSU money unlike buying PSU 4 power sucker 2900XT

dam i m noob in this PSU rail crap

This post has been edited by skylinegtr34rule4life: Aug 27 2007, 08:36 PM

Right, this is what I have tried on my 8800 GTS.

Downclock both 2D/3D setting (together) using rivatuner
Setting 1 : Stock core/mem : 513/792mhz, fan speed at 80%
Setting 2 : Downclock core/mem : 300/400 mhz, fan speed at 50%

I'm using rivatuner launcher to either set it to setting 1 (using F9 key) and setting 2 (using F10 key).

This way, when I'm in GC idle mode, e.g. surfing, folding...., I'll just press F9 key and Setting 2 will be set.
If I wanna play games, I'll just press F10 key and Setting 1 will be set.

So far, the downclocking is stable. I can even play 3D games at full setting on that speed!!! No problems switching from setting 1 to 2 or vice versa....

The reason I'm not setting the 2D and 3D separately is because I need to find out whether there would be any problems if it the GC automatically rev up from 2D settings to 3D settings. Already posted in Nvidia forum by no good replies yet. Might just email customer support if I don't get any answers.....

yo kmarc...i read ur topic in the nvidia forums....

about the fan speed thingy....u can check out the first post. theres a link there to an 8800 fan speed guide.

i did it and it works....the steps are a little tedious...but it still works.