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Is it possible to have the fan speed keep the card under a certain temperature?
I know of eVGA precision, but i wanted to know of i could do something like this:

When my card reaches a certain temp, have the fan spin up, id like to keep it under 65-70c. Higher than that gives me artifacts...
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The only thing u can do i know of is set the fan at a higher speed. I use eVGA percision on my 9800GTX+ cards and keep them on 100%. I know it is a little loud but they stay under 55c under load.
i remember hearing about a program called speedfan that could do it for the CPU. Not sure about the GPU though.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=162506

That may help you out
I use precision to set the fan speed to 75% during games. Keeps me under 50C during heavy gaming.
You guys didn't understand the question.
He doesn't want a constant speed, he only wants the fan to run faster when it has to.

The answer is: Yes. It's possible, with RivaTuner.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/rivatu...rclock-guide/1

That should help, slightly.
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you can use Rivatuner to set that up...I'm on another system right now...give me a minute and I'll switch over there and post some screen shots
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Oh yea, my bad, set it to auto under riva, and the fan will adjust accordingly.
You could edit the cards BIOS with NiBiTor and have it ramp up speed sooner.

Or just use RivaTuner.
1. Open low-level fan control tab.

2. Configure desired fan settings for 3D mode (e.g. fixed 100% duty cycle) and save them to low-level fan profile, e.g. "3D fan settings".

3. Configure desired fan settings for 2D mode (e.g. fixed 50% duty cycle) and save them to low-level fan profile, e.g. "2D fan settings".

4. Open launcher tab and add new regular item, e.g. "apply 3D fan settings".

5. Tick "Associated fan profile" and select low-level fan profile type.

6. Select desired low-level fan profile, e.g. "3D fan settings" and finalize adding new
launcher item by pressing OK button.

7. Open launcher tab and add new regular item, e.g. "apply 2D fan settings".

8. Tick "Associated fan profile" and select low-level fan profile type.

9. Select desired low-level fan profile, e.g. "2D fan settings" and finalize adding new
launcher item by pressing OK button

10. Open low-level hardware monitoring module and right click "Core clock" graph, then select "Setup" from the popup menu. Take a note that we'll define threshold on core clock for detecting switching between 2D and 3D modes.

11. Add new threshold, e.g. "3D mode detection threshold" and define threshold value. Considering that default 2D core clock for 7800GTX is below 300MHz and default 3D core clock is above 400MHz, you may set the threshold value to 300MHz.

12. Configure threshold to launch "apply 3D fan settings" item on upward crossing. This will cause RivaTuner's hardware monitoring module to apply it anytime when clock is changed from <300MHz to >=300MHz (i.e. anytime when 3D application is started).

13. Configure threshold to launch "apply 2D fan settings" item on downward crossing. This will cause RivaTuner's hardware monitoring module to apply it anytime when clock is changed from >300MHz to <=300MHz (i.e. anytime when 3D application is closed).

source:http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=162506

Just in case you were too lazy to click on the link, more direct this way
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this is much easier

at step 3, change the Tmin to what you want the minimum temp to be, remember there is probably an 8°C offset, so 37 is actually 45

the Trange is the temp difference between the Tmin and Tmax when the fan will be at 100% if you set 16 there, at 61°C the fan will be at 100%

edit: forgot to add, you might need to restart Rivatuner or reboot (I'm not sure on this one, been a while, but restart Rivatuner for sure) after Step 1 for it to register the change

edit2: you won't be able to change anything in Step 3 otherwise

and I think that's it....yah, that's it


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MSI afterburner makes this a sinch. They have a graph that you can just drag and drop points onto where you want the changes to take affect.
When you are overclocking, anything over 65C seems to give it instability (I should know because I had a GTX260).
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Originally Posted by Lord Xeb View Post
When you are overclocking, anything over 65C seems to give it instability (I should know because I had a GTX260).
This is why the AUTO setting doesnt work. Hence me making this thread.

I am still setting up Rivatuner so i will let you guys know how it goes
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I got it working, ill fiddle with it to tweak the settings but much thanks! this is why i am on overclock.net... great help
I know I'm probably 2 hours late, but MSI afterburner is really good for this, as mxthunder said.

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