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It arrived yesterday morning and has so far kicked some serious ass when it comes to graphically demanding games at very nice frame rates. I have a query however. The temperature of my graphics processing unit is 67 degrees celcius (152 F). Now I'm not into all this cooling none sense but I wonder if someone could help. Firstly is this too hot? The little temp bar suggests not and its no where near full, about half way probably. Secondly, would using the noob style overclock (over drive) up the temp too high and spoil the card? Thirdly, what can I buy to cool it down that will go in my PC somewhere? I am looking for an extra fan of some sort but I am not too sure about all this cooling business and could do with a little help/point in the right direction. Finally, would a couple of extras fans increase the cards performance (without consuming too much power) considering that it would be running at cooler speeds?
One other thing, I can only seem to run Far Cry with Medium settings (Texture quality and water effects are on default Very High for the recommended count for my card) with only the 2 settings on very high. Every other game (Max Payne 2, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Splinter Cell, Halo, Prince of Persia, Deus EX: Invisible War) runs on top whack settings with little to no slow down at all. I am thinking it is possibly a bug with the drivers and the game (currently running the Catalyist 4.10 Drivers for Windows 2000). Will this be fixed for the release of the game or am I doing something wrong?
My PC specs are:
Windows 2000 (with service pack 4)
Direct X 9.0b
Athalon 2600 + XP (clocked at 2.1 GHZ)
1GB PC 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT 256mb
40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM) Hard Drive
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Merci!
One other thing, I can only seem to run Far Cry with Medium settings (Texture quality and water effects are on default Very High for the recommended count for my card) with only the 2 settings on very high. Every other game (Max Payne 2, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Splinter Cell, Halo, Prince of Persia, Deus EX: Invisible War) runs on top whack settings with little to no slow down at all. I am thinking it is possibly a bug with the drivers and the game (currently running the Catalyist 4.10 Drivers for Windows 2000). Will this be fixed for the release of the game or am I doing something wrong?
My PC specs are:
Windows 2000 (with service pack 4)
Direct X 9.0b
Athalon 2600 + XP (clocked at 2.1 GHZ)
1GB PC 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 XT 256mb
40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM) Hard Drive
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Merci!
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Two ways; either use a software monitor which is sometimes included with the GFX card. This basically returns the value from a small probe based near the GPU. Alternatively, you can manually position a temperature sensor a few millimetres away from the processor and measure it there.
Belldandy wrote:
> Daft question but how do you find what temp anything is running at in
> the first place? Do you have to open your case up or what?
The card manufacturer usually supplies custom utilities that allow you to monitor the temps from software.
I think some of the newer ATI and Nvidia drivers allow this as well on cards fitted with a thermostat.
> Daft question but how do you find what temp anything is running at in
> the first place? Do you have to open your case up or what?
The card manufacturer usually supplies custom utilities that allow you to monitor the temps from software.
I think some of the newer ATI and Nvidia drivers allow this as well on cards fitted with a thermostat.
Daft question but how do you find what temp anything is running at in the first place? Do you have to open your case up or what?
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> The performance is set to balanced as when I higher it up the AA and
> AF go to 8X and 16X respectively, that is of course unless you use
> the custom settings. The game runs at about 40 FPS but it drops when
> all settings are put on very high with high AA. I turned AA off and
> got a better frame rate but it looks better with AA on, much better
> in fact.
>
Why don't you simply use the custom settings option in the ATI catalyst drivers... anything above AAx4 produces awesome visuals, and then find a good performance versus quality balance by adjusting the AF slider until your 9800xt owning ass is happy....
:P
> The performance is set to balanced as when I higher it up the AA and
> AF go to 8X and 16X respectively, that is of course unless you use
> the custom settings. The game runs at about 40 FPS but it drops when
> all settings are put on very high with high AA. I turned AA off and
> got a better frame rate but it looks better with AA on, much better
> in fact.
>
Why don't you simply use the custom settings option in the ATI catalyst drivers... anything above AAx4 produces awesome visuals, and then find a good performance versus quality balance by adjusting the AF slider until your 9800xt owning ass is happy....
:P
OK, just get a PCI fan; or get a watercooling kit.
My CPU runs at 31 degrees C but the GPU is running at 60-70 degrees C.
That's crazy, I'm surprised you haven't suffered any crashes yet; even my P4 3Ghz CPU runs at 60 deg when playing games!
Its my graphics card temp.
ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> You wouldn't know anything about the temp by any chance? I have
> smacked a desktop fan onto the main board and taken one side off my
> case to cool it down. Its dropped to 59 degrees C that way. Would you
> mind checking to see what temp yours is running at?
>
> Cheers!
That's your graphics card CPU temp?
> You wouldn't know anything about the temp by any chance? I have
> smacked a desktop fan onto the main board and taken one side off my
> case to cool it down. Its dropped to 59 degrees C that way. Would you
> mind checking to see what temp yours is running at?
>
> Cheers!
That's your graphics card CPU temp?
The performance is set to balanced as when I higher it up the AA and AF go to 8X and 16X respectively, that is of course unless you use the custom settings. The game runs at about 40 FPS but it drops when all settings are put on very high with high AA. I turned AA off and got a better frame rate but it looks better with AA on, much better in fact.
You wouldn't know anything about the temp by any chance? I have smacked a desktop fan onto the main board and taken one side off my case to cool it down. Its dropped to 59 degrees C that way. Would you mind checking to see what temp yours is running at?
Cheers!
You wouldn't know anything about the temp by any chance? I have smacked a desktop fan onto the main board and taken one side off my case to cool it down. Its dropped to 59 degrees C that way. Would you mind checking to see what temp yours is running at?
Cheers!
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