thestepster
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good stuff mate 
i wish i had more stuff to play with! hopefully get my old q6600 rig sold and get a gtx295 
i wish i had more stuff to play with! hopefully get my old q6600 rig sold and get a gtx295 
8800 Ultra question.
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alienware
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I'm done with older used Nvidia cards tbh. They've usually been heat pounded by the time you get them and always seem to die 
It's also next to impossible to find a genuine working card that hasn't been in the oven. And the 2 series were Nvidias hottest ever. My 280 died after six months and at the temps it ran at I am not surprised. Would much rather put together Xfire 4980 than bother with a 295 tbh.
It's also next to impossible to find a genuine working card that hasn't been in the oven. And the 2 series were Nvidias hottest ever. My 280 died after six months and at the temps it ran at I am not surprised. Would much rather put together Xfire 4980 than bother with a 295 tbh.
thestepster
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but ati cards fold like poo mate so ati's are a no no for me
and ive got 4 8800gt's a 9800gt and a gts250 all second hand and all work flawless and most of them have been at it hard for the past 4 months without a break
and ive got 4 8800gt's a 9800gt and a gts250 all second hand and all work flawless and most of them have been at it hard for the past 4 months without a break
thestepster
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name='Diablo' said:
all my 8800gt's run cool they dont exceed 60 while folding
thestepster
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does the ram really get that hot on it?
alienware
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On the Ultra? everything gets hot on it. You need to remember it's basically a volt modded 8800GTX (more heat) with a 12% overclock. That doesn't come for free man
If the ram hasn't died the RAMDAC has. It wasn't a GPU problem. What would happen is it would work fine, then as soon as you run Furmark or Fallout 3 it would crash the app, flash some red artifacts and then give the "display driver has stopped working and recovered" error. I don't know if the heatsink was fouling contact OR if there is physical damage. The GPU itself was getting no hotter than idle (62c) as it didn't even get the chance to warm up.
Thermal pads seem impossible to find. You can get a CPU one (tiny) for about £8. I would need about 5. Sadly it's not economical to spend that much on it and the baking not worked.. So for now I will put it all back together and maybe in the future something will come up. Being the KO OC it's worth hanging onto
Any way, right now I am too pleased to give a crap about it really... The 3870x2 arrived thismorning. I was extremely apprehensive as I had just almost been burned. That worked out bloody well as I would never have gotten £75 for my D2X. They're only around £100 new now. So the card came and I carefully peeled off all the brown packing tape. I wanted to try and keep the box.
Since opening it I have ran some selotape along the inside and outside of those tears. Common problem, people don't realise you should pop open both ends of the box and push the internal cardboard box out. Never mind.. I mean, I am so anal about keeping boxes and stuff. My loft has a corner where all of my boxes are wrapped in plastic bags and stored. Opening the box it was a really pleasant surprise to see it looking original.
Now I was trying not to get too excited because it's so hard finding mint hardware. Usually people want mint prices for it (like cars) and £55 for a 3870x2 is too cheap. It had literally been on ebay for about a minute before I pounced as it wasn't there during my initial search and showed up on a page refresh. Unwrapping it I was greeted with this.
Surely this is too good for £55? surely? It looked like it had been dipped in a bath of hot water. The only tell tale sign of use was the dust in the fan.
So OK, this thing has been apart right? He's obviously cleaned it all up and it's buggered? So I had a close inspection starting with the shroud. It must be full of dust, surely?
Nothing. The body is transparent and you can't hide a single spec of dust. This is too good to be true surely? Surely this card has been apart? Nope. Look at the thermal pads. They're definitely undisturbed. They spread when people mess with them and bits of string hang out.
Flipping it over I checked the other side. A good few of these have been on ebay with paint chips or broken legs. Nothing. Right now I was beginning to suspect this dude lives in Vault 101. Seriously, he must have a particle removing machine in his house.
Checked the back for tell tale signs and again, nothing.
I was seriously beginning to think I had found a dude who looked after his hardware as well, if not better, than myself. Final check, look into the escape exit and see if the copper is clogged or discoloured. Nothing. This card is as close to new as is possible.
So something has to give. This card can not work properly. Fitted it in.
So now I am really crapping my pants. Pressed down the power button and waited a few seconds....
Well bugger me sideways, it works. No artifacts.. 20 mins and some hot driver love later.
Right up there trading blows with the 8800u. Now I just hope that I haven't spoken too soon but this could well be bargain of the month
If the ram hasn't died the RAMDAC has. It wasn't a GPU problem. What would happen is it would work fine, then as soon as you run Furmark or Fallout 3 it would crash the app, flash some red artifacts and then give the "display driver has stopped working and recovered" error. I don't know if the heatsink was fouling contact OR if there is physical damage. The GPU itself was getting no hotter than idle (62c) as it didn't even get the chance to warm up.
Thermal pads seem impossible to find. You can get a CPU one (tiny) for about £8. I would need about 5. Sadly it's not economical to spend that much on it and the baking not worked.. So for now I will put it all back together and maybe in the future something will come up. Being the KO OC it's worth hanging onto
Any way, right now I am too pleased to give a crap about it really... The 3870x2 arrived thismorning. I was extremely apprehensive as I had just almost been burned. That worked out bloody well as I would never have gotten £75 for my D2X. They're only around £100 new now. So the card came and I carefully peeled off all the brown packing tape. I wanted to try and keep the box.
Since opening it I have ran some selotape along the inside and outside of those tears. Common problem, people don't realise you should pop open both ends of the box and push the internal cardboard box out. Never mind.. I mean, I am so anal about keeping boxes and stuff. My loft has a corner where all of my boxes are wrapped in plastic bags and stored. Opening the box it was a really pleasant surprise to see it looking original.
Now I was trying not to get too excited because it's so hard finding mint hardware. Usually people want mint prices for it (like cars) and £55 for a 3870x2 is too cheap. It had literally been on ebay for about a minute before I pounced as it wasn't there during my initial search and showed up on a page refresh. Unwrapping it I was greeted with this.
Surely this is too good for £55? surely? It looked like it had been dipped in a bath of hot water. The only tell tale sign of use was the dust in the fan.
So OK, this thing has been apart right? He's obviously cleaned it all up and it's buggered? So I had a close inspection starting with the shroud. It must be full of dust, surely?
Nothing. The body is transparent and you can't hide a single spec of dust. This is too good to be true surely? Surely this card has been apart? Nope. Look at the thermal pads. They're definitely undisturbed. They spread when people mess with them and bits of string hang out.
Flipping it over I checked the other side. A good few of these have been on ebay with paint chips or broken legs. Nothing. Right now I was beginning to suspect this dude lives in Vault 101. Seriously, he must have a particle removing machine in his house.
Checked the back for tell tale signs and again, nothing.
I was seriously beginning to think I had found a dude who looked after his hardware as well, if not better, than myself. Final check, look into the escape exit and see if the copper is clogged or discoloured. Nothing. This card is as close to new as is possible.
So something has to give. This card can not work properly. Fitted it in.
So now I am really crapping my pants. Pressed down the power button and waited a few seconds....
Well bugger me sideways, it works. No artifacts.. 20 mins and some hot driver love later.
Right up there trading blows with the 8800u. Now I just hope that I haven't spoken too soon but this could well be bargain of the month
thestepster
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card looks great mate! hope it works perfect for u
yeah maybe it has have ii put it back together and tried it
yeah maybe it has have ii put it back together and tried it
alienware
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OK a question. I need a fan app. For some reason I am getting temps in CCC but not the ability to whack the fan up.
When I ran furmark I hit 82c max. However when I ran Fallout I hit 75 and it then stayed there as the fan didnt spin up. At 65% in rivatuner it went down to 44c. However, I would like an app that I can custom set up to set the fan at certain % at certain temps. Does such a thing exist?
When I ran furmark I hit 82c max. However when I ran Fallout I hit 75 and it then stayed there as the fan didnt spin up. At 65% in rivatuner it went down to 44c. However, I would like an app that I can custom set up to set the fan at certain % at certain temps. Does such a thing exist?
thestepster
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riva tuner, msi afterburner or evga precision i use EVGA
alienware
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precision doesnt load on account of being Nvidia. Rivatuner can only be lock set and not set custom (unless I missed something). Will have a looky at afterburner. I want something I can create a temp profile on
So for example...
65c = 55% fan speed.
70c = 60% fan speed.
And so on, making sure my card stays cool.
So for example...
65c = 55% fan speed.
70c = 60% fan speed.
And so on, making sure my card stays cool.
alienware
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thestepster
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ah totally didnt think about that but riva tuner works but it just leave mines on auto in evga seems to do a good job even tho the fans have to go at a fair whack cause of all the folding i do 24/7 the cards get hot and with 3 of them in there its even hotter and 2 are dual slots that dump into the case and a single that does it 2
alienware
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It's having a problem with auto. Could be the drivers although I think my driver install buggered. Basically I removed all the Nvidia parp from my system and didn't reboot (being lazy). On the 10.6 cat install it black screened so I had to force shutdown. From there I had no fan controls.. This time I removed all the drivers and rebooted, then installed 9.2 cats which are recced for my card and supported in rivatuner (last ones were not). So this is a fan control issue as I never had the option in CCC or Rivatuner. Just rebooted now.. As I say, the fan wasnt speeding up (but deffo works and I could force it faster in rivatuner) so when I hit 82 in furmark on stock fan speed the fan wasnt spinning up to cool it down.
9.2 is fully supported by rivatuner and is new enough to work well in Fallout 3. Back with results in a bit
9.2 is fully supported by rivatuner and is new enough to work well in Fallout 3. Back with results in a bit
thestepster
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nice! look forward to your results
*installing Fallout* NO stepy thats a bad stepy NO FALLOUT you have crap to do today!!
*installing Fallout* NO stepy thats a bad stepy NO FALLOUT you have crap to do today!!
thestepster
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name='AlienALX' said:
uninstall all gpu drivers, run driver cleaner get rid all all gpu drivers, restart and install them that should work in theory
