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Hey,

I was planning on upgrading my GPU, at the moment i've a Calibre 8600gt and it runs far to hot for my liking (50C idle, and gets to low 90's sometimes under load). So in an attempt to avoid temps like this again i thought i'd ply the knowledge of the forums.

Looking at a 8800GTS 512mb and was wondering if there are any brands that perform noticably cooler than the rest, or if not what is a EASY way to add a cooling solution of my own? (Hopefully without voiding my warrenty)

Thanks in advance.
 

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Here's the deal...

The TARGET temperature in the BIOS of the 8800 GTS is 78C. Your 8600 GT is probably around there to.

Get Rivatuner and up the fan speed a bit. My fan normally runs at 25-30% and gives me load temps around 80C. With it at 60% I never see anything over 60C (and it's OC'd over factory settings).

Removing the cooler voids the warranty. Just up the fan speed via Rivatuner.
 

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Rivatuner doesn't seem to have any effect. When i first installed it and went into the settings it showed the fan speed for each of the settings at 100%. I thought that weird and lowered them to 50%, no change in temp or fan noise. 25% did nothing either. Tried restarting the comp thinking it might have needed a restart to take effect. No change.
 

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I think you did something wrong... Or didn't have a new version or something. Not sure. I can mess with fan speeds on my 7600 GT just fine and my 8800 GTS G92.
 

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There's 2 different places where you can change the fan speeds.

Try the first arrow.
 

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I normally just use all driver level stuff. Works fine for me.
 
VGA cards are built to run hot reliably. I would not worry too much about that. The 8800GTS-512-G92 has an excellent stock cooler. The good thing about it is that it exhausts all of the vga heat directly out the back of the case. This keeps the case and the cpu cooler.

For $500, you can get the card with a water block from BFG http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143120 or install one yourself.
EVGA will not void your warranty if you install an oem cooler. They do a good job of getting heat from the vga card, but then they just dump it inside the case which is very bad.

I would just stick with the stock cooler; it's good. As far as I know, all the stock coolers are the same.