How are you measuring the temps?Quote:
Originally posted by Blind_GI
Thanks Christ0ph, gonna try in a bit :)
Hopefully it'll be stable, seeing as im running a full 10c cooler then you at idle and load.
are you measuring the temps at stock speeds or overclocked?
I think he is doing it as the speeds in his sig using the temp tool in the nvidia control panel, assuming there is one.
also, if you just play a game for awhile, quit it, then look at the temperature panel in the drivers...your gonna see temps that are 10-20c cooler than what it really runs under a load. You have to use a program like rthdrbl(sp?) in a window to see real temps.Quote:
Originally posted by EnJoY
I think he is doing it as the speeds in his sig using the temp tool in the nvidia control panel, assuming there is one.
Where can you find that?
Quote:
Originally posted by EnJoY
Where can you find that?
here
just run it in a window with the temperature panel on the desktop so you can monitor temps under load.
Thanks man! :)
For those of you who want a faster download.
www.brainwashstudios.com/steve/6800tweakprog.rar
might want to update that link to ver 1.3.Quote:
Originally posted by bh2k
For those of you who want a faster download.
www.brainwashstudios.com/steve/6800tweakprog.rar
ver 1.1 reads the voltages wrong and causes problems with most 6800GTs.
Well if you run a game in a window mode you can see that the temps of Nvidia GPUs drop FAST as soon as you close the game and it drops back to 2D mode, lowering the clocks and the volts at the same time.
It literally will lose 10-20c core temp in a matter of seconds.
Where can I grab the new one bud?Quote:
Originally posted by Çhrist0ph
might want to update that link to ver 1.3.
ver 1.1 reads the voltages wrong and causes problems with most 6800GTs.
http://www.mvktech.net/request.php?556
And yea I guess I was just doing the alt tab before, but my idle is still at 49c at these overclocked settings.
I just tried to flash the BIOS and when using nvflash 4.41 the file is called nvfla~h1 (or something to that extent), and when I type in a:\nvflash modified.rom it says bad command (I expected that to happen). I could try using a:\nvfla~h1 modified.rom but im afraid it will screw something up. So should I try and use nvflash 5.08 to flash the BIOS, or is there a better version to do the job?
Edit: Just ran Doom3 in window mode and my load temps reached 72c... still not bad though.
Does anyone know if I can use nvflash 5.08 to flash my BIOS, or does it have to/should be a certain version?
try nvflash ver. 4.41, its the one i use without any problems.
btw, how is your card cooled? Is it in a well ventilated case, how cool is the room its in? We have the exact same card, yet mine runs so much hotter....:shrug:
Blind G.I. stated in his other post that NVFlash v4.41 isn't working well for him, that is why he inquired about v.5...
Does anyone have a link to a guide on how to flash nvidia cards? I know how for ATI cards, but this must be different, no?
I'm using the windows nvflash to flash my card. Unfortunately, my PNY 6800GT doesn't like additional voltage. I get screen corruption/lockup no matter the speed with 1.4 on the core.
I still have the stock cooling on my card, and yes it is in a well ventiltaed case (26c in summer, and 22c in winter). Right now it is 70f in my room, but in the winter it drops down to 60f-64f. Oh and I have a Smart case fan blowing at med to high on my side window (bassically blowing right on the card).Quote:
Originally posted by Çhrist0ph
try nvflash ver. 4.41, its the one i use without any problems.
btw, how is your card cooled? Is it in a well ventilated case, how cool is the room its in? We have the exact same card, yet mine runs so much hotter....:shrug:
The jist of flashing Nvidia cards is this:
First make a back up of ur original BIOS (just get a bootable floppy and when u get to the DOS prompt type a:\nvflash -b backup.rom).
Next just get the BIOS file u want onto another bootable floppy along with nvflash (im not sure which version yet) and when u get to the DOS prompt type a:\nvflash -p -u -f [file name].rom. If that command doesn't work try typing a:\nvflash [file name].rom.
[file name] = whatever u name the BIOS u want to flash to.
Hmm i just tried flashing the card with the new BIOS which just upped the vgpu to 1.4v and set the clocks at 400/550. But when I got back into windows I couldn't get any more mhz out of it, and when I set the card to default the clocks went down to 350/500. Did the flash not work or something? I used v5.08 and typed in a:\nvflash -p -u -f modified.rom, and when I hit enter it just kept telling me to hit enter to continue (it was giving me different commands to type in).
Hmm wierd.
what version of the bios editor are you using? 1.2 worked flawlessly for me, i haven't tried 1.3 yet though.Quote:
Originally posted by Blind_GI
Hmm i just tried flashing the card with the new BIOS which just upped the vgpu to 1.4v and set the clocks at 400/550. But when I got back into windows I couldn't get any more mhz out of it, and when I set the card to default the clocks went down to 350/500. Did the flash not work or something? I used v5.08 and typed in a:\nvflash -p -u -f modified.rom, and when I hit enter it just kept telling me to hit enter to continue (it was giving me different commands to type in).
Hmm wierd.
Well I just took off nvflash 5.08 and put on 4.41v (I must have got a bad file or something, but this one works now) and tried to flash. But when I flashed it this is what I got:
And yes im using v1.3...
Edit: Should I not put cwsdpmi.exe on the floppy?
hmm, I have no idea what any of that means. It was just a walk in the park for me. Maybe these guys here can help,Quote:
Originally posted by Blind_GI
Well I just took off nvflash 5.08 and put on 4.41v (I must have got a bad file or something, but this one works now) and tried to flash. But when I flashed it this is what I got:
And yes im using v1.3...
Edit: Should I not put cwsdpmi.exe on the floppy?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...threadid=39542
When u flashed it what exactly did u have on ur floppy (aside from the bootable files)?
Did u just put on the .rom and nvflash 1.41?
YES, put BOTH files onto the floppy.
wird i get this weird error after it has already erased the eeprom saying it cant flash... luckily i had backed it up
it loaded backup perfectly... but not edited one.. wierd
edit: says it cannot program a non-page boundary???
heres how I flashed my 6800.
using NVflash 4.42 I back up my original bios, using this command.
"nvflash.exe -b backup.rom"
from there, I reboot, go back into windows, and use omniextreme 1.3 to mod my back up bios, I perfer to mod my own bios that came with the card before looking into other bioses to mod.
after editing things as I want in Omni-I save the file under something easy, like 123.rom
format a floppy with windows XP to a dos boot disk, then extract NVFlash 4.42 to the floppy, and put my modded "123" bios on it.
reboot, then at the A prompt...
"nvflash -p -u -f 123.rom"
(remember, 123.rom is just what I named my modded bios, use the actual bios name after -f, then just let it flash)
so far tonight I flashed my 6800 5-6 times today, messing with the perfect combination of speed and voltages.
my 6800 OC's great at 415/840 from the default of 325/700.
but Doom 3 on the other hand doesn't like high OC's on this particular card, so I set the clock speeds at 365/750.
thats a nice simple little OC that gives a nice boost in speed, and can even handle Doom 3 just fine.
tested with Doom3 and Far Cry so far, and both games work just fine for me, and this is still a relativly unmodded air cooled videocard with nothing more then a modded bios.
it works perfect for me so far.
I got 11,100 on 3dmark2003 and 22,250 on 3dmark2001 with this card so far, it's a plain old EVGA card.
not bad in all honesty.
i figgured it out.. i had to put "nvflash -r" to remove the protection that was giving me that error... seems to have worked... gave me 15 more core mhz
kunaak: is that a GT?
Blind GI: use nvflash 4.46 worked for me with "nvflash -5 -6 -f xxx.rom" commands