turning off my 8600 GTS

Most systems have a round circular button with an I and O etched or drawn on it. Push this button!

duhh.
when i turn off the monitor, and not using the computer. the card still gets power. it heats up.
i want to cancel that so when i leave my computer on to DL, and i don't need the screen, it won't be so hot. which effects other components - and my room temp.
Thanks.

And a fried computer because video cards aren't hotswapable.

You can't shut it off, but you can underclock the hell out of it. Rivatuner or coolbits should allow you to downclock the core and memory. Fire up bittorrent, then load coolbits and take the clocks down to 300/300 (for example). Turn off your monitor and go to work. It will still emit some heat, and consume some energy, but they will both be lower amounts then before.

Last, if you're having some temp problems, consider buying a few fans.

Yeah. I thought it was so obvious that even a cavem... errr, nevermind.

yeah pulling it out would have been great.
under clocking you say... interesting.
which program is better? do they give info about the Card Temp?

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If you look at my sig. you can see the speeds I under clock my 8800 to when not gaming.
I basically never run my card at default any more. I go straight from under clock to overclock.

My card idles at between 48-51 with the fan at default speeds (60%). I have also measured the power savings at 20 watts from the cards default speeds at idle/desktop use.

Here is the thread where I went into more detail.

HILLARious!!!! =)))))

Coolbits is not enabled - use nTune instead.

Underclocking is the only way to do it sanely.
Modern cards should have 2d/3d settings on them, I don't know if the Nvidias have dynamic voltage control like the ATis do, but, if they do simply experiment with the lowest possible voltage and clock settings your card will still run at for 2d.

i decided to use the Gigabyte vTune to select the speeds and it also has a temp meter of the card.
the Riva did problems.
and the Nvidia hang up on it's stabilty test...

I say that if he wants his card to be cooler, add a 120mm fan onto it. He also complained about the heat from the card affecting other components, well upgrade the case fans.... get that heat out...

underclocking is good, undervolting if possible will lower the heat output even more

I was just joking

But the best and probably most safe way to save yourself some power is underclocking, but i don't think you win much by doing this. The card itself isnt much of a power hogg itself.

Ok .. best/safest way to save yourself the heat... But whats the problem with that? it heats up the room to fast or are you afraid your card dies because of the heat?

Because you always have warrenty, so i wouldn't worry about it that much.

thanks.
but i'm not planning to buy anything more right now.

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it might.
it ups the temp of the case' the case is already hot with my new hdd -> it gets hot!
(i'm sure my main light is helpping the heat - it's very hot too, i plan to put a low voltage one. )

Put your computer into hibernation. And when you want to continue to press the power button and it will start up pretty quick and all the windows you had running previously will still be there. I use it on my laptop.

It's hard to believe you can't turn off the GPU under powersaving options , this IS really a big deal, wtf?!? it's absurd that you have to waste over 100 watts under IDLE to heat your room .

My room is definitely noticeably warmer since I put the EVGA Superclocked 8800GTS in compared to the 7900GT that was in there before. I MISS my 7900GT, I shouldn't have traded it to my friend.

I can't believe there isn't any built in facility to turn off the GPU? Is that seriously true??? Comon NVidia, release some software to do that already, it's well past time they did.

I don't like turning off my PC much, and I also don't like the idea of having to build another PC just so I don't have to use this beast of a power-hog video card for my normal non-game day to day PC activities.

Its not? Just a side question, will having coolbits added to the registry do any negative damage to an 8600 card or its performance then? (using the registry file from guru3d instead of editing it manually)

Its not the first time we have had a post like this and wont be the last probably but critofur is right what with all this stuff about climate change going on at the min you would have thought Microsoft and the Graphics card industry would have gotten there heads together and sorted it i mean they could probably get a grant for it off of some special comision or something?
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