|  | | GeForce 7800 GS - Too Cold to Run? |
Today we have a very hilarious story. Here’s the story: Some guy registered on the THG forums and published a very strange thread. The same guy was reporting that he’s experiencing some choppy gameplay/performance issues with his BFG 7800 GS OC AGP card; and his card is running at temperatures of 112-117F (45-47C) consistently. So he installed an additional fan in the PCI slot, and contacted BFG Tech support and someone there told him that if his card is running below 40C that this is the source of these issues, and that the graphics card is running too cold! Update:
Apparently, the user’s post was misleading and caused us to believe he was talking about the card’s cooler ("you need to take that cooling fan away from the card."), not an additional fan; we apologize for this error. So basically, BFG is right, but what kind of ridiculous bug is this?
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Last edited by Dyre Straits; January 3rd, 2007 at 10:58 PM..
| | | | 20 Comments | | | | | whaat?  | | | | Why not just OC until it gets hotter? | | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Unixlord Why not just OC until it gets hotter? | You need some extra Voltage for it. | | | | lol
****ing idiots
p.s.rege i have run my pc without vga cooler. there is no chance that core will burn becouse it have termal sensor and automatic shutdown when temps go too high
in my case over 110°C (for 6600GT)( link)
just dont screv with temps. setup in vga bios and everything will be ok |
Last edited by gen.Rage1991hrv; January 3rd, 2007 at 01:13 PM..
| Quote | | | | | fire up the blow-torch and get it hot  | | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv p.s.rege i have run my pc without vga cooler. there is no chance that core will burn becouse it have termal sensor and automatic shutdown when temps go too high in my case over 110°C (for 6600GT) just dont screv with temps. setup in vga bios and everything will be ok | Once I ran a GeForce 7800GT with a broken fan (but with heat sink). It took it only 1-2 seconds to gain enough temperature to kill it. Imagine what will happen if you will remove the entire heat sink; probably 150-200c in a single second. The heating up process is too fast for ‘Automatic Shutdown’. | | | | uuuuu
that was bad
but why my card dident burn LoL
p.s.best thing to do is to buy card with pasiv cooler | | | | BFG has responded on this article. | | | | that's gotta rate as one of the dumbest things a support person has ever done  | | | | The Darwin support awards..... and the winner is | | | | Ok, guys. Apparently there was a mistake. The user and BFG are talking about an additional fan, not the card’s cooler. This guy has misleaded us with "you need to take that cooling fan away from the Card.", so we thought he’s talking about the cards cooler. But still ‘cold bug’? This is ridiculous. Anyway, keep walking! there's nothing to see here! | | | | lol, i've known about this for awhile
you can disable it, the same way you can disable the overheat protection (edit the cards bios) | | | | ok...strange
i have a 7800gs oc from bfgtech
ive got this vantec cooler, its like 2 fans in the pci slot blowin @ the card to keep it cool....and theyre sayin this is bad?
ive never noticed any frame rate drops on my rig...its likely that guy has somethin else wrong with his pc....
a too cold of a gfx card? give me a break, they WANT to run cold | | | | lol, this is a real issue :P
it can be too cold to run
some 7600GT's have the same issue | | | | Yeah about minus 175C is too cold to work properely ask a quantum physics engineer
What squall means is they have a messed up thermo sensor system in some way and the chip reads nominal use temps as too hot so starts to crank the cards performance down in some extreme cases turning machine off.
It seems to do this in a range of temps but at some point passes this range and performs as it should hence the cards "too cold" remark.
Why were these cards not recalled is my question? | | | | Because you can solve it with BIOS update; and Nvidia is not doing anything about issues until the press is writing about it. |
Last edited by Regeneration; January 4th, 2007 at 11:59 AM..
| Quote | | | | | Okay that answers that then, i ran into some info on this and thats was just not mentioned as a fix maybe it was all posted before they had a BIOS fix available. | | | | Just remember not to take the cooler off an Nvidia Riva TNT2 (1999).... It carbonizes in about a quarter second. | | | | LOL this is too much gotta love tech support  | |
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