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I just have a question about GPU temperature. I haven't messed around with the Nvidia overclocking settings, I have everything set to automatic temperature control. I checked my Nvidia MonitorView and noticed my GPU gets up to over 70 degrees Celcius or over 160 Farenheit. That seems pretty hot to me. It does that by itself and seems to get hotter when I play games. Also my machine seems to get louder and temperatures rise. I assume that's because the fans are speeding up to keep things cooler. So my question is what is the highest safe temperature for my GPU (8800 GTS? Or for that matter the rest of my machine. It's performing fine with minimal hang ups and/or random crashes (Like all Windows PCs :p) so it doesn't apear that theres anything wrong. I'm just concerned about the temperature and rising noise level. Thanks for any help and advice you can give.

The shutdown temperature on most NV GPUs is 130C (yeah, hot enough to boil water and then some) so 70-80C is generally fine. Most of the cooling setups they ship with will keep them under 100C in normal operation, it takes watercooling to kick them down to the same range as recent CPUs.

70dC idle is too hot for a 8800GTS, should be around 55-65 w/ about 75dC max under load. The heatsink on the card may have bad contact. For a better temp analysis try RivaTuner

My 8800GTS runs at 60 idle and 70 running

theyuse to be down to 59running in my old case but thats cause i had a 9k rpm exaust fan pulling air over them

hey grendel, i heard that the newest cards and the 7800's are programmed to stop working if riva tuner is installed.


matter of fact, thats what caused my BFG and eVGA 7800GS to stop working. the moment i uninstalled Riva, the eVGA worked just fine.

AceCombat wrote:hey grendel, i heard that the newest cards and the 7800's are programmed to stop working if riva tuner is installed.


matter of fact, thats what caused my BFG and eVGA 7800GS to stop working. the moment i uninstalled Riva, the eVGA worked just fine.

Then you heard wrong.

AceCombat wrote:hey grendel, i heard that the newest cards and the 7800's are programmed to stop working if riva tuner is installed.

Haha, that's a good one. The way RT interacts w/ the card/driver it's very unlikely that there's something like that in the 7800 or other cards. The only thing nV added as RT "defense" was hard-locking deactivated pipes & PID overrides (so you can't Quadro your card). I'm using RT on all my 5 computers w/ different nV GF/X cards ranging from 6200 over 7900 to 8800 for underclocking, temp monitoring, fan control etc. Never had a problem. But then I always knew what I changed w/ RT..

thats just what i heard, but why then would the 4 7800's i tried all fail to operate when i had RT Installed on my pc? but suddenly start working when i deleted it?


matter fact i just tested something...... RT works, but if i enable the pipes unlocking it locks up my PC and makes the card fail to POST again? whats the deal?

AceCombat wrote:thats just what i heard, but why then would the 4 7800's i tried all fail to operate when i had RT Installed on my pc? but suddenly start working when i deleted it?


matter fact i just tested something...... RT works, but if i enable the pipes unlocking it locks up my PC and makes the card fail to POST again? whats the deal?

Grendel wrote:The only thing nV added as RT "defense" was hard-locking deactivated pipes & PID overrides (so you can't Quadro your card).

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so being they are hard locked, if i enable the pipes feature it simply makes the cards not POST?

Yup, thats how it goes.

Grendel wrote:70dC idle is too hot for a 8800GTS, should be around 55-65 w/ about 75dC max under load. The heatsink on the card may have bad contact. For a better temp analysis try RivaTuner

Agreed. My 7900GS idles around 50C and peaks at around 65C while C&C 3 is running, although I do have a 120mm fan as a side intake.

wasn't it riva turner that has the ability to unlock your card's properties to run as an industry grade card? I mean if you had a radion it would be a Firegl. or if you had a gforce4 it would be a quatro4

That was one way, yes. Theres also a manual way to do it. I don't know if the tutorial is still up on Guru3D or not, but there was a way to mod a GF2 and 4 to Quadros. Didn't really do much for you though, unless you worked in 3dsmax alot.