ghell

For some reason my 3850 likes to have its fan on 16%. When it's at load it might decide to go up to 20% (90'C) but that's about it. I can set it to 60% fixed in RivaTuner 2.06 which takes it down to 42'C idle and 67'C load (oc) with no audible difference. Past 60% I can start to hear it.

Is there a better way to set this fan speed so that is doesn't try and set itself to ridiculously low speeds in the first place? I find RivaTuner a bit of a PITA. Every time I open it, it thinks I am at default clocks and whines about drivers and it adds itself to startup but needs elevated permissions so I get blocked startup warnings each boot (I have it as a scheduled task too but each time it opens, it adds itself to startup in the registry again)

Annoyingly, it's fan seems to use some tiny 4pin connector that I have never seen before so I can't hook it up to any of my fan controllers, which is what I normally do with graphics cards. I just got this card because I got bored waiting for the GT200 and Vista SP1 killed my 7900s (sent them off to my brother now) so I'd rather not get an aftermarket cooler for (hopefully) just a few months.

RonindeBeatrice

disable UAC

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ghell

I somehow knew that someone would say that. I won't go into how bad an idea disabling UAC is here but please go and do some research on exactly what you are disabling before suggesting that someone disable it.

Then again, I expect that anyone who would disable UAC would click "OK" to a "Virus.exe is requesting permission to run" dialogue anyway, which would mean that disabling UAC for them would make no difference to their security.

I also mentioned things other than annoying bubble that pops up in the system notification tray, which is all that disabling UAC would help with.

jaclipse

Look for the thread on creating fan profiles. But in all honesty, I crank it up to 60% before I game and return it to auto when i'm done and never felt the need to create a fan profile