Because I just can’t leave “well-enough” alone, I’ve gone in and started fiddling with my GPU again. Earlier I talked about how I was turning my computer into a space heater, and the remedies I had to apply in order to cool down the fire breather. One of the things I did was to drop the GPU core and RAM clocks WAY down. And when I say WAY down I mean it from (CORE/RAM) 540/792 down to 400/550. It was part of the package deal to keep the card at a much more respectable 70c, instead of the 80c it was at. Well I just fired up Fahmon, now that the lights have come back on at Stanford, to see what kind of an impact my new clock frequencies made. 4150ppd?!?!?! WTF!?!?! That ain’t happening! I’m not loosing 500ppd over this crap! So back into riva tuner I go, where I was able to find the fan speed setting, sweeeeeet. I’m pretty sensitive to noise, so I wasn’t able to raise the fan speed up too much, but I was able to raise it up enough to take my core and memory frequencies back up to stock settings, regain my 4600ppd, and still keep my card at 69c. Yes, the noisy PCI blower is still installed, but it’s not long before I put a 5v mod or physically modify the exhaust on that screamer, trust me. Now I remember why I chucked that bad boy in my black-hole-of-a-parts-drawer oh so many years ago.