rec.autos.simulators

GPL contantly crashed, probably because of the temparture of my Voodoo
II SLI getting to high, according to most people. So now I installed
another fan in my pc.

2 questions: is there a way to measure the temp of the voodoo II, and
what is the max temp is should be?

The second fan installed in my pc: I pointed it towards my graphic
cards. Seemed logical to me. But a friend adviced to turn the fan the
other way to the outside so that the fan blows warm air to the
outside.

Anyone has some advice on this so I can finally make a 2 hours race in
gpl without crashing?  (without my pc crashing I mean, the odds that I
will crash my car in a 2 hour race are quite high :)

Andre

What cards do you have? I have Monster 3D2 12MB in SLI and Stealth fans on both cards. I then took a cheap $10.00 indoor/outdoor
temp gauge and taped the sensor on the edge of the Stealth fan plate close to a chip. I tried with the fans off and got about 115F
at the desktop and it went up to 170F with heavy graphics games(68F room temp). With the fans on it was about 110F at the desktop
and 140F during heavy graphics games. Interesting how it varies with different 3D games, some would go up to about 120F and +140
with Unreal . I tried to find out what the recommended max temp should be, but I got a lot of different answers. I figured if it
locks up, then it is too hot, however sometimes it would lock up at 120F and run fine at 135F. I then found that if the M3D2
Performance setting was set above  about 93MHz then it might lock up even at cooler temps. Maybe my temp gauge is not reading the
part that locks up. I also noticed that with the latest drivers, this Performance setting sets itself back up to 95Mhz when Windows
starts.
The cards make the temp inside the case a lot hotter and the V2 SLI cards are so close together that air does not flow away well.  I
tried blowing air at them but it still stays hot in the case, so I stuck a fan on the edge of the cards blowing away and into a
cardboard duct that goes to the rear vent holes. When I turn on this extra fan the temp of the card goes down about 20F and the case
about 10F.
The Radio shack "Blower" fan #273-260 for $9.99 works well and is very quiet.

Lutrell :-)

D Sport Racer #74
http://www2.scca.com/amateur/club_racing/runoffs/photogal/dsr-74.jpg

www.ukgamers.com has a digital readout thermometer that fits into the case
at the front of a 5 1/4" drive bay (it leaves enough room to mount an HDD
behind it) that has two temperature gauges you can place anywhere. You can
program in temperatures at which you would like fans to cut it at; save the
power (and noise) until you need it most. It costs about 30. This is an
English site, but most of our cool stuff comes from the States anyway. ;)
You should be able to find something like it.

To overclock my V2s I bought 6 486 heatsinks and stuck them to the main
chips on the cards. I then got a 92mm fan and made up some brackets to fit
the fan to the screws that hold the V2s into the case, blowing straight onto
the heatsinks. I can now overclock them to 105MHz, whereas before GPL would
crash (when going to the replay screen) if they were set above 90MHz. This
should sort out your problem (the cooling, not the o/c'ing =))

Hope that helps

MM