riva tuner

[nglprrtt]

Hello all
being new to the dark and shadey world of overclocking, i have been and downloaded riva tuner after opening it and looking slightly puzzled i tried to google a guide so i can get it to work, i want to adjust fan speeds see temps ect. BUT i cant seem to find a guide for the 8800gtx can anyone point me towards one please?

[Goliath182]

Heres a guide i made myself for you. :icon_tiphat:

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii202/goliath_182/step_1.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii202/goliath_182/step_2.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii202/goliath_182/step_3.jpg

You can also check the little check box that says Apply fan settings on Windows startup and click save then apply to have that fan speed every time you boot windows.

[nglprrtt]

many thanks a super fast reply, ill go play with riva right now, is that your car btw? if so very nice. thanks again.

[Goliath182]

Its what we do here at the Bjorn3D forums. Everyone here is always glad to help.

Yes it is my car. Thanks. :icon_tiphat:

[Raptorfury]

i put this up on sapphires webby a while ago . this fallows suit with ati cards and nvidia cards , Monitoring (http://forums.sapphiretech.com/showthread.php?t=15591), Fan controls (http://forums.sapphiretech.com/showthread.php?t=19875)

[Instigator AG]

If you have any other questions let us know. I am a big Riva Tuner fan myself (it might seem a bit confusing at first but once you get an understanding of the program it is great).

[nglprrtt]

hello again.
using goliaths guide i was able to play around with my gfx cards fan speeds, worked great thanks again. when i fired up riva i got a warning that riva tuner has not been tested with the currently installed display driver, does that matter? other than play around with fan speeds is there other useful fuctions i can use riva for i was hoping to have a back ground temp display or does that depend on my motherboard? and once again thanks for being very friendly and helpful.

[Raptorfury]

it can only monitor c2d cpus , vga , hdds . currently .

[Goliath182]

when i fired up riva i got a warning that riva tuner has not been tested with the currently installed display driver

If your using beta drivers it will display that. Just ignore it.

[nglprrtt]

hmmm not using beta drivers using the latest ones, you think thats ok?

[Methious]

No if you use Riva Tuner a lot you'll get used to the error message. It doesn't hurt anything and Riva still does it's job.

ATITool has a good GPU Chip temp monitor in it and so does CPUID HWMonitor (same people that make CPU-Z), then you can get a good quick and dirty look at the hardware on your GPU with GPU-Z.

Any time your OCing your GPU you should monitor temps and keep them down to say 75C ish or preferably lower. I get edgy when mine go over 70C.

[Goliath182]

I like to use beta drivers, but its up to you. Doesn't really matter on Riva tuner but it will improve performance in certain things.