hmm...   I dont really care about overclocking at this moment.   Thats for later in the future.  This video card is powerful as is and I dont think overclocking is needed.  What I do want right now is...    temperature monitoring for the v-card.     So...  there's nothing out there at the moment??

If you have windows xp, not Vista on that system, a current video card driver from nVidia will show the temps.  You did not include your OS in the sig of yours.  Important that you always do, so we don't have to ask for it to assist you better.  If you have Vista, at this time you can use Ntune that has in addition to the showing of the temps but overclocking as well.  Since you are not going to overclock the card, than just look at the temp area only.. 

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VelocityMicro Gamer’s Edge PCX

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SR45..

 

FWIW, when I installed the latest XP Nvidia driver for my 7900 GTX, when I attempted to select GPU temp monitoring in the 3D set up I got a pop-up stating temp monitoring now requires NTune, so I installed it. For sure it's a lot less straight forward to monitor temp than before so I went back to the 92.91 driver that allowed both GPU temp monitoring AND overclock settings that stay put after rebooting, unlike all later drivers. And based on 3DMark06 tests (basic) none of the newer drivers were any faster at stock speeds than the 92.91, so that's what I'll continue to run now that Nvidia is no longer updating the 7900 series drivers. 

That's interesting...  New driver telling us to use nTune.  A buggy software noticed by many, and as you said, not straight forward.   What ever happen to the simple stuff  ?

 

VCraig..... did you notice any changes in the GPU temps going from one driver to the next by chance  ?  I have Vista, and using the vista drivers of course, and have notice noticeable increase in GPU temps on mine.  Not sure if this is the same across the board on other cards and drivers.  Interesting to say the least and not all that welcomed either. 

 

52c Idle using the first WHQ driver 100.65 and 64c Idle using the 158.18 driver.   12c increase.  Not good, but for my system its still within the safe zone.  Others on the eVGA forum have noticed the same thing.  Just wondering, since this was brought up for the first time for me, I wondered if this happens to all the cards and newer drivers.  Just a thought.

 

SR45

Sorry about that.   I added vista to my sig and also updated Ram to 4gig.

 

I downloaded nTune and it seems to work fine monitoring the temperature.  Thanks for the help.

 

By the way...  I'm using 158.18 driver that was released on May 2nd and my 8800GTS' temp is at 50C Idle and never saw it go higher than 58C.     I just got this card and I only play Counter strike source.  Maybe I'm not using my card to it's full potential???   I also added 2 80mm exhaust fans in the back of the case.

..."VCraig..... did you notice any changes in the GPU temps going from one driver to the next by chance  ?..."

 

Nope. Not the XP drivers at least. What you describe sounds reminiscent of ATI's attempts to push the 9800 Pro card at the time through driver "enhancements" to help offset their lack of hardware product to compete with Nvidia's new - and faster - cards at the time. Caused my idle and load temps to jump a factor of near 10C and darn near fried my 9800 Pro card before I realized the cause and reverted to an earlier driver version (also prompted a lot of post traffic on these boards and other forums at the time).

Like I stated above...  my card is running at around 50-53C.   I'm just wondering if thats normal for eVGA 8800gts 640MB superclock.   I saw someone with 7900GS running around 40C.

Normal KangHM....  My 8800 GTX idle temp is around 54c to 57c