As some of you may know, I ordered me a eVGA 8800GTS 512mb (g92) video card. Well, it arrived today and I got her up and runnin.
(It was shorter than my ati AIW x1900 btw
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Well, I'm wondering about a couple things. As some of you also may know, I've ran ATI and specifically All in Wonders for all of my PC history, with the exception of my first card which was some type of sweet Nvidia based 32mb card back in 2001 or so. So, I may just not know what I'm doing...
Anyhow, the first strange thing I noticed is that it seems that my color quality got set to 16bit "medium quality" by default. Why would they do that?
Secondly, while researching these cards before buying I read that the default fan speed is set fairly low (like 30%) and that you need to use a program like Rivatuner to change the default fan speed if you don't want your card idling at 60C (like mine is now) and jumping to 80C on load.
So, I installed the latest forceware drivers off the nvidia site. (Why does it look like "Media Shield" is installed and should I worry? I didnt' see an option to not install it and now I don't see an option to uninstall it...)
I checked out the Nvidia control panel and clicked on "monitor temperature levels" to see what my GPU temp was. It then informed me that I had to install NTune. So, I installed that and tried again. When I click on "monitor temperature levels" it brings up a box that has one side devoted to "performance" with a graph for cpu usage, RAM usage, etc, and one side devoted to "bus speeds". This, obviously, doesn't have a damn thing to do with "monitoring temperature levels". And clicking on everything I can click in that window doesn't yield anything related to temperatures.
So, I ended up giving up on Ntune, installing Rivatuner, and trying it out. However, the latest version of Rivatuner that I could find first gives me this "Unsupported driver error":
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...and then will not give me any options to change the speed of the fan.
Only thing I can think is that the forceware driver I'm using is too new to be supported by rivatuner...even though I've read pretty much everywhere that you can use RivaTuner with this card to change the fan speed...
So, the point is I want to change my fan speed and can't. Heck, I can't even see the GPU temp without using ATITool, but I don't think I can change the fan speed in ATITool...
Any of you Nvidier peeps can helps me with dis?
TIA.