So I have this GTX 260 which seems to be on the fritz lately, it's been getting kind of hot (around 75 degrees Celsius) while playing games so I am thinking of underclocking it slightly so I can still play without worries about temperature but I also use this card a lot on my other, smaller PC at a relative's place during holidays and would like the clock settings to remain the same. I've overclocked before with RivaTuner (which does driver level overclocking from what I've read) but I do not recall if the hardware remembers the clock settings. Is it possible to have my card remember its clock settings?
Flash the BIOS. Or blow the dust out of the card and allow it to cool off better.
You could look into getting an aftermarket heatsink for it instead of underclocking.
75c isn't anything you should worry about
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Max temp for that GPU is 105c... it will be fine, worry when it hits 97-98.
75C isn't hot, hell it's probably not far off average for load
All right, I still wish to have the underclock question answered though.
The last thing you want to do is underclock. You don't want to lose performance for something you bought
Don't slow it down... Cool it down :buddy:
Seriously, Just make it cooler in your case.
Start with blowing dust out, if that's not good enough, try cleaning up your cabling. If that's not enough buy a heatsink
[QUOTE=Pacmaney;22052097]All right, I still wish to have the underclock question answered though.[/QUOTE]
It was already answered; dump the BIOS, lower the clock speeds in the firmware dump (core, mem, shader, etc), and reflash.
Use Nvidia System Tools:
[url]http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia_system_tools_6.02.html[/url]
The settings will stick when Windows restarts. If you want the card to run at a lower temperature, increase the fan speed.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22057680]It was already answered; dump the BIOS, lower the clock speeds in the firmware dump (core, mem, shader, etc), and reflash.[/QUOTE]
You always run the risk of bricking the card when you do flashes like that.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;22058566]You always run the risk of bricking the card when you do flashes like that.[/QUOTE]
Only if you are foolish enough to use a mismatching dump from another incompatible hardware revision, with tje wrong EEPROM size, powered off the computer while flashing, or etc.
I have personally flashed at least a few hundreds of graphics card, and have never ran into any problem while flashing.
Evga Precision is good for this works on my BFG 260.
I've had HWmonitor running all day, wile it was 30c in here the card got to 81c max.
I forgot I jammed the fan at 100% for a wile and it stayed at 58c wile the fan was up.
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