Geforce 6800 GT Temp

[dsj]

My videocard temperature got to 110 degrees! I really need to disable the Gigabyte MIT overclocking. Does anyone know how to do that?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

celsius?

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: wafflesandsyrup
celsius?

That's what I was wondering.

I've heard of 6800GTs getting to 90*C, but never 110!

 

[rise]

and whats MIT overclocking?

 

[suicidalpigeon]

gigabyte as in passive cooling?

 

[dsj]

Yes celcius. The videocard can take a maximum of 120 degrees before shutting down. MIT is the feature called motherboard intelligent tweaker. It automactically overclocks the cpu by 200 mhz and videocard by 66 mhz. My gt after a 66 increase is even higher than ultra speed. It CAN'T take that much. Gigabyte didn't respond to my inquiry and I'm angry with them. Their "smart" feature is damaging my hardware. I need a way to disable it because bios didn't have that option.

 

[Nocturnal]

http://www.supz.net/images/6800gt.jpg

 

[dsj]

Is there a program that lets me to lower the clock speed?

 

[rise]

Originally posted by: dsj
Yes celcius. The videocard can take a maximum of 120 degrees before shutting down. MIT is the feature called motherboard intelligent tweaker. It automactically overclocks the cpu by 200 mhz and videocard by 66 mhz. My gt after a 66 increase is even higher than ultra speed. It CAN'T take that much. Gigabyte didn't respond to my inquiry and I'm angry with them. Their "smart" feature is damaging my hardware. I need a way to disable it because bios didn't have that option.

ahh i see something here.

 

[dsj]

My bios looks a bit different than that. My motherboard is the GA K8Ns ultra 939. It's a nforce 3 motherboard.

 

[rise]

looks like ctrl and f1 get you the expert features.

 

[dsj]

My bios looks like the one you mentioned. But instead of the multiplier it has the overclock in mhz. I'll try keys. Thanks.

 

[dsj]

doesn't work. I can't play any games before I disable the overclock. What was gigabyte thinking to overclock everyone's videocard by 66mhz?

 

[krevo]

there is a way to disable it. they wouldn't have it auto overclock anything. no company would ever do that.

 

[krevo]

oh btw...have you ever read the manual that came with your board. they put it in the box as a means of finding answers to problems you might have.

 

[dsj]

The manual didn't say anything about disabling them. It only says that the overclock is from 66mhz to 100mhz. So I guess that your idea no longer works.

 

[kirbymixmasta]

Displayer Properties->Settings->Advanced->nVidia 6800gt->Clock Frequencies(to have this you need to install nvtweak.reg)

 

[dsj]

what is nvtweak.reg?

 

[dsj]

Strange, the clock frequencies are still at 350 for core and 1 ghz for the vram. Why did my video card get so hot?

 

[thegimp03]

Have seen several other posts lately about how warm these 6800 gts run. It's not only yours, though 110 C does seem extremely hot. Hottest I've seen my card (an x850xt, after playing D3 for about 2 hours) was 135F or around 57C. The 6800nu I had before this card ran warmer though. It'd get to mid-60s C.

GPU temp is dependent on case temp too. If you have a few hard drives sitting in there, an overclocked cpu without sufficient cooling, then there will be a lot of hot air circulating the case and will warm the gpu up even more. Plus a hot room warms things up considerably.

 

[dsj]

The surroundings are fine.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: dsj
The manual didn't say anything about disabling them. It only says that the overclock is from 66mhz to 100mhz. So I guess that your idea no longer works.

The 66mhz isn't an overclock on your graphics card...66mhz is the frequency of the AGP bus, the setting allows you to overclock your AGP bus up to 100mhz, but you wouldn't want to do that anyway, any type of overclock to the AGP bus will cause instability, thats why AGP/PCI and SATA locks are important features for overclocking. I think you are completely misunderstanding the settings you are seeing. The AGP bus should be 66mhz, if thats what it is saying, then that is the normal stock speed, and it is not overclocking your video card..200mhz x5 is the base HTT frequency, it's not a 200mhz overclock of your CPU.

There is definatly something wrong if your card is running that hot though. You are having temp problems, but your motherboard is not auto overclocking anything. You can verify that yourself. Download CPUz, and show us a screenshot of what it shows.

List your full system specs, including power supply, and cooling, this will help us get to the root of your problem.

 

[dsj]

Thanks.

Gigabyte GA K8NS Ultra 939
Athlon 64 3200+ venice
Geforce 6800 GT agp EVGA
1024 MB kingston pc 400 ram (on single channel)
enermax 350W power supply.
3 casefans
Case side pannel is off.

I don't know how to post a picture here.

 

[dsj]

CPUZ says that the clock speed is 2010 mhz for the cpu. Multiplier is X10. HTT is 201 Mhz.

 

[stevty2889]

Thats what it should be, it's not overclocking anything. Having the side of the case off will disrupt airflow. If your temps go down by taking off the side panel, you don't have good airflow.