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    Rivatuner mess with your card without asking?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by chocolambot, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. chocolambot

    chocolambot Notebook Consultant

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    Does rivatuner mess with your card clocks without you knowing? I am using it to moniter temperatures and it is showing wierd 'downward' spikes on my clock speeds on the graph thing. Is this my card doing this? or riva tuner? I never wanted to ajust clocks, just see the temperature.
     
    chocolambot, Apr 18, 2008
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    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    Your GPU operates on 3 levels, Standard 2D, Low Power 3D and Performance 3D. The downclocks on your card aren't being done by RivaTuner, it's just a feature built in so that it will only run at full power when necessary. Otherwise, it downclocks to save power and reduce heat.
     
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    chocolambot Notebook Consultant

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    Doesn't reduce heat, lol, my card still goes up to 72 on idle until the fan kicks in, i am glad it isn't riva tuner though...
     
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    dab3 Notebook Guru

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    I have a question too that I couldn't google up! What happens with Rivatuner in my situation, is when I overclock, to example 545/800 on the 8600M GT DDR3, on the perfomance 3D section, the Hardware Monitoring displays my clocks at the max of 580 (35+ mhz), which means it clocked it higher than I put.

    Whats up with Rivatuner?
     
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  5. chocolambot

    chocolambot Notebook Consultant

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    yeh rivatuner shows wierd spikes that go higher than what the stock clock is on my card, and I DONT OC!!!
     
    chocolambot, Apr 19, 2008
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    chocolambot Notebook Consultant

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    look at this screenshot i took!
     

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