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Video Card Fan Control Problem

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
My Geforce 6600 came with a bundled utility to overclock it and check the temperatures and control the speed of the fan. However I'm only getting the overlocking option on the window application and I'm not getting the other stuff showed on the help page. What could be wrong?
 
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t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
Well, Coolbits would be better than Rivatuner, but overclocking isn't the problem. I want to be able to check and change the fan speed, and GPU temperature.
 

cooliscool

Nintendo Zealot
The standard 6600 doesn't have those features. Some cards bioses that physically have the temp sensors can be flashed to enable them.
 
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t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
cooliscool said:
The standard 6600 doesn't have those features. Some cards bioses that physically have the temp sensors can be flashed to enable them.

Does it really doesn't have temp and fan control? Because the fan makes a lot of noise (at least for me, I hate fan noise you know)
 

RJARRRPCGP

The Rocking PC Wiz
cooliscool said:
The standard 6600 doesn't have those features. Some cards bioses that physically have the temp sensors can be flashed to enable them.

Is that really true with the GeForce 6600?

I dunno about Nvidia, but with ATI, that was true with Radeon 9800 Pros, because later Radeon 9800 Pro video cards have a newer GPU revision, actually the same one that the Radeon 9800XT uses, R360. Radeon 9800 Pros originally used the R350 GPUs. The R350 GPUs don't have a temperature sensor. Only the R360 GPUs have a temperature sensor! Thus with the Radeon 9800 Pros, (if you know that already) if it's a late one, can flash the BIOS with a XT BIOS to get a GPU temperature reading!

Is the same type of thing true with GeForce 6600s?(the early ones don't have a temperature sensor?)
 
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t0rek

t0rek

Wilson's Friend
Well, I bought mine recently (an AGP one btw). If someone has some information about flashing my card in order to get temperature readings please tell me. The card is a Gigabyte AGP, a 128 Mb one. The Model is GV-N66128DP
 

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