Quote: Originally Posted by
archie123 
the 8800's were always hot due to a ridiculous fan profile set by nvidia (the fan speed doesnt go over 40% till yuor card reaches 80 degrees) that said 80 is fine ingame , no problems at all
you can set a custom fan profile up with Riva Tuner if you wish and set it to automatically rise along with temp triggered events
for example i have my 8800 fan to run at 40% on startup then go up by 10% for every 10 degree rise in temp , as a result i idle at 50-56 degrees and run at 72 degrees on full load and my fan speed never goes over 60%
If you want to set this up i can tell yuo how (you will need to download riva tuner and you will need to have it running at startup though) But if not its no problem as it is now as i said 80 degrees is ok , as long as this is the actual ingame temp and not the temp your reading after minimising or ending a game , as your card cen drop 15-20 degrees in the time it takes to shut a game down
I thought the fan profiles are set in the graphic card bios by the manufacturers. I got two XFX 8800GTS 512s bought both at seperate times. The first one I bought was an XXX edition and the second one was a normal one, so I flashed the second one with the XXX edition's BIOS, which changed the fan profile for the card as well.
Mine have been running a bit warmer recently due to the weather, and doesn't help with my room being the top floor as well as having the sun shine in my room from 3pm onwards. At load, the first graphic card reaches around 65-67C with fan speed at 76% and the 2nd card is at 60C at load with 64% fan speed. And these aren't with custom fan settings, either.
Though with your fan speed that low at that temp, I think it's best if you do what Archie said.