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More info?)
I left Speedfan running while I played and then checked its graph
afterwards. I have ordered two case fans as just now I have one poor
one. I got 441/932 for autodetect.
I think now that there might be warm air building up underneath the
card, when I get a fan to blow air in from the front this will
probably sort it.
On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:13:12 +0100, "GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com>
wrote:
>Should be OK then, but 80 seems kind of high - how do you measure it? I
>leave the Nvidia temp tab on the screen, and after say 20 minutes of a game
>ALT-TAB back to the desktop. I think 72c was the highest I saw using this
>method, but I guess it's down to the case cooling you're using...
>Using the auto-detect feature in manual overclocking I get 472/984 for my
>Aopen 5900 what do you get?
>"GaryM" <abc@def.com> wrote in message
>news:7meva0lb7gqb6ian1fgg03b1flg91i1d5s@4ax.com...
>> I have the newest drivers from the Nvidia site, and I've never flashed
>> the BIOS, maybe the fan is speeding up and I'm just not noticing it.
>> If I change the overclocking settings on the driver dialog and hit the
>> test button, I always hear the fan speed up as it tests the settings.
>>
>> On Sat, 22 May 2004 21:23:46 +0100, "GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >The 5900 use variable fan speed. When you first turn the PC on the fan
>spins
>> >fast to disipate heat quickly, then slows to the 2d speed - but the fan
>is
>> >always on. As soon as you launch any D3D or OpenGL app the fan speeds
>up -
>> >or at least should do, and you can hear this. If your fan was not
>spinning,
>> >your temp would go much higher than 80c in Half Life, believe me! I am
>> >concerned though if you can't hear the fan spinning faster when you first
>> >launch Half Life - are you using standard drivers and if so which
>versions?
>> >Have you flashed you vid cards bios?
>> >
>> >"GaryM" <abc@def.com> wrote in message
>> >news:hrcva0lt9d5o26t04ujq5ti2e8ktm1pajf@4ax.com...
>> >> I have an AOpen GeForce FX 5900. When the computers powers up the fan
>> >> on the graphics card comes on for a few seconds and then goes off, I
>> >> assume this is a test to see if the fan is working. When I am doing
>> >> everyday stuff on the computer the GPU peaks at 44C. When I play
>> >> Half-Life it goes up to 80C but the fan doesn't come on? Is it waiting
>> >> for an even higher temp before it comes on or what? Any advice would
>> >> be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>>
>
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