8800gts fan controller in ntune

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vardan33

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Hello i just bought a evga 8800gts 320mb superclocked. I think i have heat issues i idle at about 69 degrees celcius. When i go in ntune to change my fan setting it is disabled i guess. I tried the 158.22 drivers and the new 165.16 drivers its the same. I dont want to use rivatuner but will if necessary. BTW i do have coolbits installed.

Any help is appreciated.
 
This is a problem with the latest drivers. They have the fan option grayed out in Ntune. You are going to have to use Rivatuner if you wish to use these newer driver or else revert to an older driver set to retain said option.
 
cantankerous said:
This is a problem with the latest drivers. They have the fan option grayed out in Ntune. You are going to have to use Rivatuner if you wish to use these newer driver or else revert to an older driver set to retain said option.
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Ummm what is the newest version that the fan control is enabled? And is my idle temp of 69 celcius bad?
 
I would just use RivaTuner 2.01 for now. Honestly, I didn't really want to use it either, but after dealing with the Nvidia driver randomly resetting to default, if it even works at all, I just gave up. I'm glad I did. With RivaTuner you won't have weird problems.

The Nvidia driver and Ntune combo just doesn't work right, and never has. Don't punish yourself trying to fix something even Nvidia can't make work correctly after 8 months.


Edit: adjusting your fan speed will do more to keep your load temps down, which is where the 8800's can really get hot.
 
Yeah, ntune is virtually useless these days. RivaTuner (2.01) can do all of the things ntune used to. 69 degrees isn't THAT bad, but if you crank the fan up you can likely lower it by 10 degrees or more.
Still, unless you have issues, I wouldn't worry about temperature for the 8800 cards. Lots of people have gotten crazy temps, but I have yet to hear of anyone with stability problems as a result. I think it's just a knee-jerk response to these cards running hotter than before.
 
My 8800 GTX idles at 62C with the fan forced between 90 and 100% duty cycle via RivaTuner, and I see 70, 71C under load. This appears pretty typical.
 
69C idle is perfectly fine for the 8800GTS/GTX. These cards run hot and fast, and they are designed to tolerate temperatures much higher than that.

You can manually increase the fan speed if you want to, but fact is if it needed to spin faster the card would do it on it's own.

FYI The next driver release should have the fan control working in nTune once again. Actually the recently released 162.15 beta has working fan control, but nVidia pulled the driver due to some rather problematic issues in some new big ticket titles (Lost Planet, SupCom, etc). We should see a fixed re-release in the next few days or so...
 
Blue Falcon: On the 162.15's - does it save your fan settings by chance? That was my issue with ntune. I'd have to change my settings after each reboot. RivaTuner can boot with my computer and keep the fan turned up.
 
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