Clock speed profiles for Nvidia cards?

[MONKEYMAN]

I know that game profiles can be set for nvidia cards for visual quality and brightness etc., would it be possible to make a program that can store a preset core/memory speed for a certain environment, for example I would like it so my 6800 card could run at 250/500 when in windows(for silent,cool running) and 410/920 when gaming.
Would it be possible to make a macro to manipulate the settings through the rivatuner registry editor(disabling test clock speed etc, and then changing the clocks)?

[Aedan]

I thought that the 6800s had two clock speeds - one for 2D and one for 3D?

[MONKEYMAN]

Im gonna go and stand in the corner.

[dsio]

Only the high clocked cards throttle when in windows. The 6800s in general run at their normal speeds all the time. The 6600GTs clock their 500Mhz down to 350 or so though.

There is little point really. When you are just in windows the card is at idle. Idling at 250Mhz or 350Mhz doesnt matter, just try it and watch the temps. Underclocking can make 6800s extremely unstable, even in 2D, and has been known to do damage, so please let it do its own thing.

They are designed to run very hot, and if they were in danger of failing through thermal failure before they became technologically redundant, Nvidia would have done something about it.


Everyone seams to worry about these chips because of their heat output, comparing their temperatures to CPUs. They are not CPUs. They do not have a large bank of thermally sensitive cache memory on die.

[MONKEYMAN]

Im not worried about how hot the card gets, the highest its ever hit was 60c, I want to cut the heat output of my system so I can leave it running with just the psu fan on low so at night it does not irritate anyone, my pc only runs f@h and acts as a file/web server at night.

[Aedan]

Originally Posted by dsio

Everyone seams to worry about these chips because of their heat output, comparing their temperatures to CPUs.

No, I worry because large amounts of heat output are a good indication that large amounts of power are being consumed. In a world where power usage is unsustainable, that's a pretty bad thing!

[dsio]

Originally Posted by Áedán

No, I worry because large amounts of heat output are a good indication that large amounts of power are being consumed. In a world where power usage is unsustainable, that's a pretty bad thing!

Vulcan logic tells me that I should start worrying about my GPU as soon as Americans stop buying Ford F150s.