VERY hot Gigabyte Geforce 6800

grandpa_boris · Post by **grandpa_boris** » Fri May 20, 2005 11:28 pm

rei wrote:gp-boris, basically any 3d game will cause it to go to 85-95

half-life 2, world of warcraft, beyond good and evil, ati ruby double cross demo, ati ruby dangerous curves demo, guild wars, ut2004, 3dmark05, doom 3, farcry.

idle temps are 50-65 in 2d in windows, video playback and normal stuff.

i've ran GW and UT2k4, the card temperature kept under 70 since i taped up the useless ANTEC drill-outs and opened up 2 PCI slot covers under the card. i think the highest has been 68'F, when ambient temps got close to 80'F. it all points to the conclusion that your card is in some way defective. probably the HS adhesion, may be the HS itself. but this shouldn't be your problem -- let gigabyte sort it out and give you a card that works.

grandpa_boris · Post by **grandpa_boris** » Sat May 21, 2005 2:09 am

Katharsis wrote: http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

it run a windowed real time renderer so you can watch your software temp gauge while under load.

ok, i have tried it. 64'C. it seems to max out the CPU capability on my box to a greater degree than it drives this video card to the limits. i couldn't get it to run in a window larger than 1024x768, it says "not enough video memory" and exits.

rei · Post by **rei** » Sun May 22, 2005 9:42 pm

still 100ish load, gonna pop it out, grab vitals and contact gigabyte after the long weekend :/

grandpa_boris · Post by **grandpa_boris** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:53 pm

an FYI followup: i had followed a suggestion from another thread (URL=http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewto ... 735#188735)here(/URL) and had used rivatuner to unlock 4 more pipelines and 1 more shader on my 6800, changing it from (12x1,5) to (16x1,6). frame rates are up (30% or better on CoH), temperature is up a bit (64'C in CoH vs. 61'C), textures seem crisper but that's a subjective impression, not a measured fact.