damn this evening was so hot, my rig shutted off during crysis >_<
perhaps the temp reaches 100 degrees last I checked it reached 82.

it's getting hotter these days. Gonna find some supplemetary cooling for my baby here. Poor her..already have a fever

EDIT: Just finished Crysis my 2weeks old rig!! Damn love the ending scene that was not lagging at all

This post has been edited by alexandros_18th: Jan 22 2008, 09:02 PM

have you tried the rivatuner fan speed setting?

i always use the rivatuner OSD to see gpu temp and fps in game.....better than logging it or using fraps

This is how i cool off my PNY 8800gt card with stock heat sink with fan speed maintains on 35% using rivatuner.

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Idle Core temp : 48c-49c
Idle Ambience temp : 38c

Max Core temp : 60-65c when running benchmark but maybe slightly higher if play game with longer hours
Max Ambience temp : 55-58c

By putting a PCi slot fan on top of the card do help a little bit of cooling. So, Rm 15 bucks well spend

it seems that gigabyte card can't use rivatuner to set the fan speed. That's what ppl talked before and I also didnt notice any changes from the fan speed ingame.

oops, i forgot your 8800gt is using old zalman vf700 cooler.
that means the cooler is definitely insufficient for oc.

what details settings and resolution u using?

juz surfing around and realise omega developing nvidia drivers again, nw available for vista also... so we got omega forceware drivers again, anyone tried that? how was it?

This post has been edited by lichyetan: Jan 22 2008, 11:31 PM

How about Asus EN8800GT (non TOP version), can OC how much with stock cooler?

details very high on 1280x1024. didn't check the fps but its quite smooth. i say it should be 28-30fps.
hmm..omega again? I will only try it once there are good reviews for it.

How to check temps in rivatuner? noob to this

Did you on AA?

hi guys...i'm planning to get a new pc soon...but dunno which 8800gt (512mb) to get...

any recommendation ? my budget is below rm900...

thanks in advance ;-)

just get any 8800GT with new cooler should be alright. recommended brand Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA & etc.

If I enable AA the performance will drop few fps.
I turned off AA for best fps.

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Added on January 23, 2008, 4:46 pm@blurjoey, use the hardware monitoring in riva tuner. after u opened it, play a high performance games like gears of wars @ crysis, then after somewhile minimize n look at the temperature.

This post has been edited by alexandros_18th: Jan 23 2008, 04:46 PM

just download the 171.16 driver it will set ur fan to 100%

dont need to get out of game to look for temps.....u can set rivatuner to show whatever parameters u want on an OSD in-game. By using this way, i no longer need to log the temps to file bcoz i can see real time.

Heres how to do it, step by step :

http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-ge...structions.html

Here is the pictar :



I monitor 2 items only : FPS, and GPU Core Temp

This post has been edited by zamanjaafar: Jan 23 2008, 05:04 PM

The OSD is quite ugly
I'll stick to minimizing my apps. Won't affect me after all.

Anyone used gigabyte new 8800GT? The one with voltage control chip. How max the oc?

voltage control chip? what's that? First time hearing it.

I just wonder, why I couldnt read temperature from my Asus 8800GT Top ? Do i need to install something else to activate this feature ? Wonder wonder...