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Darkhorse!

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does any one here have the bfg 6800gt oc pci-e? and can u tell me wats ur ambient temps and core temp? cause mines is tunning at 45ambient and 55 at idel
 
AGP 6800GT OC, ~67 idle and 75+ under load. In fact I can't even play a game right now without taking my case door off because the card will overheat and crash my computer. I have an NV Silencer coming this week that will hopefully solve my problem.
 
I doubt this is the dual fan design. But with my experience with that on my 6800nu AGP and reading it seems the BFG chips do run extremely high. I simply went out and bought a silencer to help it out. Either way, it hasnt caused any issues for me.
 
Darkhorse! said:
hay koo review so that means i dont have to worry
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Well I'd be careful. In order to overclock mine, I had to take the door off my computer, and mount an 80mm fan under the card, heh.
 
I just got the BFG 6800 GT OC AGP with the dual fan cooler and the lowest idle I have ever seen it get was 59 degrees. It normally sits around 63 degrees. The highest I have ever seen it at was 74 degrees, this was after playing the Doom 3 demo.

I cannot get it to clock higher than 380/1100........if I go 5 Mhz higher to 385 on the core it cannot successfully run that test in Rivatuner, however it runs 3D mark 05 just fine at 380 core.

I thought these cards had no problem hitting 400/1100........I am kinda dissapointed.

Why is it that mine will not get to 400/1000? Could it by my PSU.....it is a 350W made by JustPC (generic???).
 
My BFG 6800GT with the dual led fans runs 59 - 61 idle and 79 -80 load. OC's to 400/1080 with out artifacting. In my SLI rig the two EVGA GT's run at 52/56 idle and 72/75 load.
 
im running 55c idle and 33c ambient at the clocks in my sig and i top out at ~80c load
thats with the 2 fan cooler
but i have uber case cooling 2 front intakes and one on the side right by the card and 2 rear exhaust + the PSUs fans
 
nobi125 said:
I just got the BFG 6800 GT OC AGP with the dual fan cooler and the lowest idle I have ever seen it get was 59 degrees. It normally sits around 63 degrees. The highest I have ever seen it at was 74 degrees, this was after playing the Doom 3 demo.

I cannot get it to clock higher than 380/1100........if I go 5 Mhz higher to 385 on the core it cannot successfully run that test in Rivatuner, however it runs 3D mark 05 just fine at 380 core.

I thought these cards had no problem hitting 400/1100........I am kinda dissapointed.

Why is it that mine will not get to 400/1000? Could it by my PSU.....it is a 350W made by JustPC (generic???).
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go into the power user settings of rivatuner and disable the tests, then you can test it yourself.
 
Darkhorse! said:
:confused:
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Just try it and see! Every card is different. No one here can tell you if you can or can't oc your card.

You aren't going to kill your card as long as you stick with stock voltage. Just keep increasing the core and mem clocks until it's not stable. Then back it off some.
 
Darkhorse! said:
can i use a pci card fan to cool the bfg?
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One that sucks or blows? Lol, if its a slot cooler, which generally suck air out, then no, this would be a bad idea. It'd bring air away from the fan on the card. If its one that blows air at the card then it may help a bit. But you'll still want to of course use it in conjunction with the normal heatsink.
 
Darkhorse! said:
does any one here have the bfg 6800gt oc pci-e? and can u tell me wats ur ambient temps and core temp? cause mines is tunning at 45ambient and 55 at idel
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those temps are perfectly fine. my old bfg 6800gt agp ran at the same temperatures, literally. it worked great. these cores have a threshold of 120C so i wouldnt worry. when temps get to 90+ then you should look into better cooling.
 
Jerunk said:
go into the power user settings of rivatuner and disable the tests, then you can test it yourself.
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Cool, it worked fine, I was just forgetting to put a 1 in for the value.
 
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