8800GTS Fan maxed when driver loaded

[Uber Nooblett]

I've noticed that as soon as the NVidia driver is loaded when booting into Gutsy, the fan on my 8800 GTS switches to max. While this is probably only a noisy nuisance, I do worry about wear and would appreciate any tips if there is a way to throttle it down to a reasonable level.

Thanks in advance,

JJ x

[dibl]

Re: 8800GTS Fan maxed when driver loaded

My 8800GTS also speeds up at the first login, but within a few minutes it throttles back down (assuming I'm not spinning the Earth in fullscreen mode with Google Earth ). I don't think it's stressing your card unless it runs continuously when you are not pushing it.

[Uber Nooblett]

Re: 8800GTS Fan maxed when driver loaded

Thanks
Think mine is on pretty much all the time, which it wasn't under feisty far as I know, its running at a cool 56C as a result...
Perhaps its due to me running dual screens with Compiz Fusion? Still, did the same before with Beryl under Feisty and didn't run maxxed... bizarre....
ah well :P
so no fix then I take it? As in a manual throttle tool or sorts?

[dibl]

Re: 8800GTS Fan maxed when driver loaded

Thanks

You are very welcome!

its running at a cool 56C as a result...

That's not bad -- mine runs in the mid-50s all the time. I don't know of a "knob" with which to control the fan directly -- it's going to run as needed to maintain the safe temperature. It would be interesting to see whether it behaves differently with a different OS running -- you can do the experiment and let us know.

[eggbanjo]

Re: 8800GTS Fan maxed when driver loaded

can you not throttle it back user the GPU settings under nvidia-settings?