Temps that shorten drive life

Ed Light wrote:

"willbill" wrote

makes me think that maybe i can OC my 6600GT.


Try the coolbits registry hack. It has a feature to "detect optimal
frequencies". Of course then you have to stability test it. It took my
6600GT AGP up to almost 600/1100.

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what does your GPU *temp* max out at,
with 3D game play, at 600/1100?

did you replace the stock heatsink?

if you did, with what?

fwiw, my 6600GT has a decent stock heatsink
(about the same as what's on my 7600GT),
and gives off noticeably less heat. it runs
(stock) at 300/900, which is a lot less than
your current 600/1100


add a DWORD named coolbits with hex value 3 to registry key:
"HKLM/Software/NVIDIA Corporation/Global/NVTweak/"


thank you for that.

fwiw, i put coolbits on my 7600GT, and
the attraction was that it was easy to do

would i benefit there from setting the above
registry key to hex value 3?

on my machine with the 6600GT i've loaded
RivaTuna v2.0 RC 16 (and the nVidia 84.21 driver)
and i like what i see. the downside is that
it is complicated and takes some serious
reading before you do anything

bill

what does your GPU *temp* max out at,
with 3D game play, at 600/1100?

With the stock cooler it would get to 80C instead of 70C at stock 500/900.

I'm now using a Zalman
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118116
It comes with an adapter so you can choose to run it on 5v or 12v. I have it
on a Zalman fan controller. On slow (about 5v) it gets up to 70C. But on
halfway it's much cooler. No need to run it full-bore, though it's not loud
that way.


fwiw, my 6600GT has a decent stock heatsink
(about the same as what's on my 7600GT),
and gives off noticeably less heat. it runs
(stock) at 300/900, which is a lot less than
your current 600/1100

They run at 300 in 2D and in 3D they jump to 500.


add a DWORD named coolbits with hex value 3 to registry key:
"HKLM/Software/NVIDIA Corporation/Global/NVTweak/"


thank you for that.

fwiw, i put coolbits on my 7600GT, and
the attraction was that it was easy to do

would i benefit there from setting the above
registry key to hex value 3?

Doing that *is* the coolbits hack. You then, in the nvidia panel, get a
clock speeds tab.



on my machine with the 6600GT i've loaded
RivaTuna v2.0 RC 16 (and the nVidia 84.21 driver)
and i like what i see. the downside is that
it is complicated and takes some serious
reading before you do anything

I haven't tackled Riva myself.


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fwiw, my 6600GT has a decent stock heatsink
(about the same as what's on my 7600GT),
and gives off noticeably less heat. it runs
(stock) at 300/900, which is a lot less than
your current 600/1100

They run at 300 in 2D and in 3D they jump to 500.

BTW -- I wouldn't overclock the 2D gpu speed. Just the 3D.
When you speed up the memory it stays that way in 2D.


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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ed Light wrote:
what does your GPU *temp* max out at,
with 3D game play, at 600/1100?

With the stock cooler it would get to 80C instead of 70C at stock 500/900.

I'm now using a Zalman
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118116
It comes with an adapter so you can choose to run it on 5v or 12v. I have it
on a Zalman fan controller. On slow (about 5v) it gets up to 70C. But on
halfway it's much cooler. No need to run it full-bore, though it's not loud
that way.

A pretty good cooler. But it does not fit every card. On my 7600GT I
have a newer VF900-Cu, which is even better and fits more
cards. Before I had a passive cooler from Zalman on my older card. No
problemas at all. These people are really good engineers!

Arno

Ed Light wrote:

I'm now using a Zalman
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118116
It comes with an adapter so you can choose to run it on 5v or 12v. I have it
on a Zalman fan controller. On slow (about 5v) it gets up to 70C. But on
halfway it's much cooler. No need to run it full-bore, though it's not loud
that way.


thank you for your two replies

i took an extended look at the above Zalman 700,
the Zalman 900 that Arno mentioned, and also
the Vantec Iceberq 5 (sp?)


willbill wrote:

fwiw, my 6600GT has a decent stock heatsink
(about the same as what's on my 7600GT),
and gives off noticeably less heat. it runs
(stock) at 300/900, which is a lot less than
your current 600/1100


They run at 300 in 2D and in 3D they jump to 500.


ah ha! i knew that but had forgotten it.
thank you again

fwiw, i liked what i saw of the
Zalman 900. (weight for one thing,
a current instant $10 rebate for another,
as well as it appears that it will fit
either of my AGP 6600GT and/or PCI-e
7600GT.) from what i see of the
bolts/screws supplied with the 900,
i'll likely have to get to a hardware
store for 4 "normal" bolts/screws coz
on one machine i've got my video board
in the middle with another card tight
on it's backside

thank you also to Arno, coz i'd
otherwise not have looked at the 900

bill

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage willbill wrote:
Ed Light wrote:

I'm now using a Zalman
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118116
It comes with an adapter so you can choose to run it on 5v or 12v. I have it
on a Zalman fan controller. On slow (about 5v) it gets up to 70C. But on
halfway it's much cooler. No need to run it full-bore, though it's not loud
that way.


thank you for your two replies

i took an extended look at the above Zalman 700,
the Zalman 900 that Arno mentioned, and also
the Vantec Iceberq 5 (sp?)


willbill wrote:

fwiw, my 6600GT has a decent stock heatsink
(about the same as what's on my 7600GT),
and gives off noticeably less heat. it runs
(stock) at 300/900, which is a lot less than
your current 600/1100


They run at 300 in 2D and in 3D they jump to 500.


ah ha! i knew that but had forgotten it.
thank you again

fwiw, i liked what i saw of the
Zalman 900. (weight for one thing,
a current instant $10 rebate for another,
as well as it appears that it will fit
either of my AGP 6600GT and/or PCI-e
7600GT.) from what i see of the
bolts/screws supplied with the 900,
i'll likely have to get to a hardware
store for 4 "normal" bolts/screws coz
on one machine i've got my video board
in the middle with another card tight
on it's backside

thank you also to Arno, coz i'd
otherwise not have looked at the 900

No problem.

Arno