November 15, 201213 yr I have been using a program called MSI Afterburner to control the GPU fan. I also tested nVidia's inspector's fan control and it also holds the temperature at the same level of 55C with a heavy (FSX) load. I would like to eliminate having to load a program at startup just to control the GPU fan. However, it seems that there is no fan control from nVidia that does not require loading a program such as Inspector. regards, Dick near Pittsburgh, USA
November 15, 201213 yr You would need a hacked BIOS, check this out http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=336117 unfortunatelly none of those apps can modify the fan profile, only the min / max %. It's not worth the hassle or the risk IMO, I use MSI Afterburner myself
November 16, 201213 yr Author I was afraid of that. Actually trying to avoid buying a solid state disk to improve loading times. Eliminating Afterburner would save some seconds. Yep, there are lots of other benefits to SSD but if the slime in DC take us over the cliff any money spent now will be regretted then. regards, Dick near Pittsburgh, USA
November 16, 201213 yr I would recommend that you stay away from modifying the BIOS. I fried 2 GTX580s doing this.... :lol:
November 16, 201213 yr 55c? I was hyperventilating a few days ago when i tested afterburner and saw my simulator made the card go up to 63c! Then i decided to fire up Battlefield 3 as i play every week with some friends for a couple of hours. I had forgotten to turn off Afterburner, and my card had reached 65C for the entire BF3 session. Doin some research, nothing wrong with that, as long as the fan continues to cool it off. Throughout the BF3 session, the fan never even reached 50%. All good. Will Reynolds Flight Sim Addict
November 16, 201213 yr 55c? I was hyperventilating a few days ago when i tested afterburner and saw my simulator made the card go up to 63c! Then i decided to fire up Battlefield 3 as i play every week with some friends for a couple of hours. I had forgotten to turn off Afterburner, and my card had reached 65C for the entire BF3 session. Doin some research, nothing wrong with that, as long as the fan continues to cool it off. Throughout the BF3 session, the fan never even reached 50%. All good. Bah, my former GPU, a GTX480 overclocked to 860MHz running close to 90ºC for hours at 100% fan speed, now that was a loud & hot running card haha. I also owned a 460 and it's a great little GPU. runs so cool and overclocks like mad
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