ASUS EN8800GT TOP Review Comment Thread

[biff]

Got it figured out. I'm using v2.08 if it matters.

1. Start RivaTuner and open up the hardware monitoring window, shown upper middle of pic.
2. At the bottom of that window hit Setup, it will open a Hardware Monitoring Setup window shown upper right of pic.
3. In the list of data sources, highlight Core temperature and hit Setup right below that. That will bring up another setup window shown at the bottom left of pic.
4. Near the top of that window you will see a drop down menu beside an icon labelled Data Provider. The box beside it should say default. Open the drop down menu and select NVThermalDiode.dll:0 and hit OK

The thermal monitoring should now be working.

[Supergrover]

Originally Posted by biff

BTW, I have mine on water and did a volt mod but am stable at 815MHz core, 1950MHz shader, and 1010MHz mem.

Sweet clocks

Did you use NiBiTor for the vmod?

Might get around to it this WE.

Whats the temps under water?33 idle but load?

[biff]

I did a hardware mod. I'm not crazy about BIOS vmods because if things don't work out I can't simple undo it. Others feel the opposite so I suppose it matters more what you're comfortable with. I upped the vGPU from 1.15V to about 1.27V to get that. Fully loaded for about 3hours the temps stabilized at about 47 degrees.

[SKYMTL]

Don't you also have to download a custom .dll and load it into the Rivatuner CFG file?

[biff]

Nope.

Why? Did this not work for you?

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I did see what you're talking about somewherebut I personally didn't have to do that. Maybe that was in reference to an older release and the dll file is included in v2.08? Just speculating.
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[SKYMTL]

Don't have the card installed right now. I will probably check tomorow since I have a...different card on the test bench. ;)

[SKYMTL]

The info below WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! I will update the review.

Thanks Biff. You get the cookie of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by biff

Got it figured out. I'm using v2.08 if it matters.

1. Start RivaTuner and open up the hardware monitoring window, shown upper middle of pic.
2. At the bottom of that window hit Setup, it will open a Hardware Monitoring Setup window shown upper right of pic.
3. In the list of data sources, highlight Core temperature and hit Setup right below that. That will bring up another setup window shown at the bottom left of pic.
4. Near the top of that window you will see a drop down menu beside an icon labelled Data Provider. The box beside it should say default. Open the drop down menu and select NVThermalDiode.dll:0 and hit OK

The thermal monitoring should now be working.

[biff]

Glad it worked out!

Now that you have it working... were you going to publish temp data? I didn't find this fix until after I went to water and am curious about the differences.

[SKYMTL]

Believe it or not, my ghetto-rigged setup on the overclocked EVGA card worked like a charm. The temperatures I saw with the Rivatuner fix lined up within 2°C of the ones I posted.