[Flipside]

Just wondering, since I've never looked at this before, are there any share/freeware programs that allow you to monitor the internal temperature of your CPU/Graphics card etc? I'm a bit fed up with my system freezing up during Eve, one day it's going to get me killed, so I'd like to know what it is that's playing up.

I know this might seem like an obvious question, but it's only on the newest rig that I've ever had to be concerned about heat before.

[Col. Fishguts]

Usually the mainboard comes shipped with some hardware monitoring tools on an CD.

[Flipside]

Ah right Complete N00b when it comes to hardware related stuff really

Time to go hiking in 'CD Mountain' again I guess

[CP5670]

Motherboard Monitor and Rivatuner do a pretty good job of this for me.

[Nix]

If you have an ATI card, ATITool will monitor the temp. probe, IF your card has the appropriate chip. 
MBM works well, even though it's been out of development for a year or so.  A newer program, though not as user-friendly IMO, is Speedfan, and works quite well.

[Flipside]

Alas, I have a GeForce card, which I think is part of the problem, stupid wimpy plastic fans FTL

I'm using SpeedFan atm, my Video card idles at 45'C and hits 62'C when Eve is running, that's with the Desk fan blowing onto it. Not good.

[Grey Wolf]

nVidia cards have a monitoring solution built in, assuming you're not doing something foolish like using the standard Windows drivers. Go to Display -> Settings -> Advanced, then click the nVidia tab.

[IceFire]

Alas, I have a GeForce card, which I think is part of the problem, stupid wimpy plastic fans FTL

I'm using SpeedFan atm, my Video card idles at 45'C and hits 62'C when Eve is running, that's with the Desk fan blowing onto it. Not good.

Any of the newer nVidia and ATI cards have built in temperature sensors.  Its surely in your drivers somewhere.

[Flipside]

I've got the latest drivers, and I've been checking throughthe options, but can't seem to find temperature stuff anywhere. I'll keep looking though, knowing my luck, it's right under my nose :/

[CP5670]

If it's not showing up, you may need the coolbits registry hack (http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=815). The control panel only shows the current temperature though. Rivatuner is better since it shows a graph of the last five minutes. The temperatures on some modern cards tend to change very quickly (if you play a game and close it down, there is often a 5C or larger drop during just those few seconds), so this graph is more useful than just the current reading.

[Grey Wolf]

Question that should have been asked earlier: As you mentioned a "wimpy plastic fan", what generation GeForce do you have?

[MatthewPapa]

lol
remember the days when video cards (and even CPUs to some extent) diddnt even need fans?

[achtung]

lol
remember the days when video cards (and even CPUs to some extent) diddnt even need fans?

Yep, got an old ATI Rage Pro 8MB, doesn't even mave a heatsink.

[Flipside]

All I know about the card is that it's a 6600 256Mb

The Bios revision is 5.43.02.66.52 if that helps.

And yeah, this is the first graphics card I've ever owned that had a fan on it. Ironic somehow that it should be the first Grpahics card I've ever owned that keeps overheating really.

[CP5670]

oh, if I remember correctly, the vanilla 6600 doesn't have the temp sensor enabled for some stupid reason, even though it's present in the core. There is a BIOS mod you can do to enable it: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=2379

[Descenterace]

lol
remember the days when video cards (and even CPUs to some extent) diddnt even need fans?

I remember those days especially well, since my latest insane project involves putting two computers in one case and one of them was going to be a K6-2 since it generates so little heat.
Shame that the mainboard technology from those days is so prone to failing.

Anyone want to guess the running temperature of a pair of Athlon-era CPUs in the same case, when said case is packed full of cables, circuit boards, drives and bastardised fan mounts?

[Scuddie]

Anyone want to guess the running temperature of a pair of Athlon-era CPUs in the same case, when said case is packed full of cables, circuit boards, drives and bastardised fan mounts?

Fire?

[jr2]

No, not fire...just it would shut off every minute because of the overheat.  If you went and over-rided the shutoff, then maybe you'd get a fire.  At least, I think the Athlon has shut-offs.

[Taristin]

Athlons, like athlon XP's? Because my XP 2800+ runs ~ 50c generally, IIRC.

[Herra Tohtori]

Time for some medium thread nechromancy I guess.

I DL'ed and installed SpeedFan today, but there was an *interesting* anomaly in its function. See for yourself:



First I was like OMG WTF is that "Remote 2" sensor announcing a whopping 109 deg Celsius? Then I started thinking like "What computer hardware could possibly hold together in such stress?" and came to the conclusion that something is *wrong* with the method SpeedFan recognizes some sensors and the information they send.

I came to that conclusion because my computer has not yet in more than half a year of use been deformed into smoking heat of metal and plastics.

Anyone has any ideas what the **** could cause that anomalous behaviour? Other temperatures are kinda realistic, but that one...  Has anyone else encountered the same phenomenon?

It's quite annoying, too, because now I can't use SpeedFan. If I start it and then quit the program, all the two fans on my PC turn to full speed, causing an infernal noise not quite different from turbojet engine in miniature scale. Which sucks.