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Good forceware version fo 6800GT?
Would I see a performance boost or temp lowering from 93.71 to 169.21?
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:13:51 -0500, " -" sayd the following: I have been using the 169.21 download from the Nvidia site. The only time I have had problems so far is when I have gone into the Nvidia control panel and run the stability test (I bought my card used and wanted to thrash it a bit to see if it would have problems under stress while I could still return it). It runs the stability test just fine, but each time after running the test, the first time I reboot there is a problem. It will boot fine until just after the desktop comes up and then about a two seconds later the display screen goes all squiggly. I have to reboot into safe mode and reload the drivers. Therefore, I think it is an Ntune or driver issue. Otherwise, I have not had any issues with 169.21. "Robert Blass" wrote in message .. . I have nvidia Gerforce 6800GT. I was wondering what is a good and SAFE forceware version for it? I'm currently using 93.71 And can you control the fan with newer forcewares? thanks |
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First of One wrote:
Overclocking doesn't damage the card. Clocked too high and the card will simply show artifacts or lock up. Tell that to the legions of clockers who destroyed their video ram by setting it too high, or changing ram timings. If your VGA card doesn't boot from changes, if you do not have a PCI spare or can flash-it-back-blind, it's effectively ruined. Added control? What PSU are you using? I don't recall ever coming across a PSU that allows its fan speed to be controlled by the motherboard. This is just plain stupid, because every PSU is different. A "default" fan schedule that works for PSU A won't work for PSU B. An Enermax VC700 something something SLI PSU with 2 fans that are controlled either by an external pot, temp, or motherboard via the control cable. The SMARTFAN setting in your BIOS can be set for various temps and will adjust your fans accordingly. It's very handy and quiet and until now, problem free. Back in the day, certain Forceware 8x.xx drivers were known to kill monitors with a new "Direct Access" feature. The feature was soon retracted. How things haven't changed....bleh. |
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"Mr.E Solved!" wrote in message
. .. Tell that to the legions of clockers who destroyed their video ram by setting it too high, or changing ram timings. I don't believe Forceware adjusts RAM timings. If your VGA card doesn't boot from changes, if you do not have a PCI spare or can flash-it-back-blind, it's effectively ruined. This is true only if you "hard" set the clock speeds with a BIOS editor. Overclocking done thru Forceware or utilities like Rivatuner and ATiTool doesn't go into effect until the driver or utility loads well after boot, and that can be bypassed by Safe Mode. Besides, for any Geforce 5xxx or later card, the full "requested" clock speed doesn't kick in until 3D. An Enermax VC700 something something SLI PSU with 2 fans that are controlled either by an external pot, temp, or motherboard via the control cable. The SMARTFAN setting in your BIOS can be set for various temps and will adjust your fans accordingly. It's very handy and quiet and until now, problem free. So what does the motherboard use to determine PSU temperature? -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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Good forceware version fo 6800GT?
Sorry, but I could not advise you on this.
Doug "Robert Blass" wrote in message news Would I see a performance boost or temp lowering from 93.71 to 169.21? |
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First of One wrote:
I don't believe Forceware adjusts RAM timings. No, but users can and that's what we were talking about, how overclocking can...not can't... hurt your vid card...and we both know it can in the many ways possible. So what does the motherboard use to determine PSU temperature? Mobo knows CPU Temp (embedded diode and possibly reported by cpu?), Chipset temp (embedded sensor somewhere near the southbridge/2nd PCIe slot), and another temp from handy thermistor on a long lead, which you can put anywhere..such as the PSU. The PSU is connected to the mobo by its lead which transmits not temp but fan data, and the mobo determines the rpm of the PSU by the temp of the lead or by the temp you supply to the BIOS, or any third party program like speed fan, ntune...the PSU can over ride the mobo temp data with it's internal temp sensor but you can override that by the external pot. All said and done, I've never seen the fans not spin while the system was on, let alone running, no matter how it was connected, they quietly whirr for a good five minutes after the PC is shut off most of the time. This whole thing started with the install of the new card, forceware then ntune, as instructed. Some fans were shut off (once), BIOS was reset (twice) and .NET25 was wrecked. Everything works now, no more issues other than that install and I've reinstalled several driver suites both WHQL and not, no issues. Either it was a bad ntune installation or something horrible happening to .net or moonbeams, but it could have wrecked my PSU. Who knows, maybe a short, internet pirates, not even a software problem. All in all the 8800GTS512M is a monster card, HDR and 4xFSAA with SS and 16x aniso at 1600x1200 at 50-70 FPS with a 490M buffer/texture memory load in Oblivion is pretty remarkable, the fans never go over 420RPM and the GPU says at 67c, only the CPU fan kicks into higher gear to hold at my self-imposed limit of 55c. All done without resorting to nHancer, which has some issues with 169.xx forceware's and later. I'd take the 9-series equivalent of this card with 768M and add more FSAA (8xQ) to Oblivion. But only if it doesn't need any more power, I'm drawing 127w idle, 240W load. |
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"TheCroW" schreef in bericht
... I have nvidia Gerforce 6800GT. I was wondering what is a good and SAFE forceware version for it? I'm currently using 93.71 And can you control the fan with newer forcewares? thanks Well, I have the GeForce EN6600 TopSilent TD and using the latest Nvidia forceware drivers (version 169.21) on my Windows XP Home SP2 system is giving no problem at all. Only thing that is "weird", is the new NVidia control panel: I don't like it al all myself, looks like some kind of Windows Help screen .... but other then that, the latest forceware is working cool and safe with my GeForce 6600. Some time ago I got some valuable advice on this subject (I hate the modern control panel as well) for Mr. E. Solved, You can read it in message 17 in the thread on http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.co...fe8a1d2e112 e. Good luck! Yours sincerely, Rene |
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Good forceware version fo 6800GT?
Well, I have the GeForce EN6600 TopSilent TD and using the latest Nvidia
forceware drivers (version 169.21) on my Windows XP Home SP2 system is giving no problem at all. Only thing that is "weird", is the new NVidia control panel: I don't like it al all myself, looks like some kind of Windows Help screen .... but other then that, the latest forceware is working cool and safe with my GeForce 6600. Some time ago I got some valuable advice on this subject (I hate the modern control panel as well) for Mr. E. Solved, You can read it in message 17 in the thread on http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.co...fe8a1d2e112 e. Good luck! Yours sincerely, Rene Your my hero :-) Thanx!! Menno |
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Good forceware version fo 6800GT?
Rene wrote:
Some time ago I got some valuable advice on this subject (I hate the modern control panel as well) for Mr. E. Solved, You can read it in message 17 in the thread on http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.co...fe8a1d2e112 e. Good luck! Yours sincerely, Rene Sssh, If people know I have the answers, I'll be forever asked questions. Thanks for pinch hitting Rene, you're a peach. |
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