GFX card temperature monitor?

[too_much]

Hi :)

Just wondering, for overclocking purposes, is there any app anyone knows of, that lets you monitor the temperature of your graphics card?

I had a look online, but all I can seem to find is mobo monitors, and Asus probe :p

cheers, too_much

[ch0wdy^]

If you get artifacts then you know that you've gone too far. In which case, you should clock 'er down a bit (5-10mhz) or so. IMO a temp sensor is not necessary.

Great OCing guide if you're interested (http://sysopt.com/articles/VCOGuide/index.html)

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Only way to do it is buy a seperate electrical thermometer type thing and attach it to the cars yourself, there is no software that can do it as the cards dont have in built temp probes.

Read up on the guide, should be useful to you, even if i may say so myself ;)

--Jakk:t

[too_much]

heh I've read that guide several times lads :D I've read most of the guides on this site actually. Between this, overclockers, tomshardware, and a few others I like, I learned most of what I know (stop laughing!) from you...

In fact, I didnt realise that the guide was written by Jak til the other day :D Nice one mate.

Also, one other thing. With the omega drivers I used to use, came the Artifact tester. It tests using either simple software things, or a DX7 test. I'm sure you already knew this, just saying :p Anyway, is it any good considering it's only using DX7 testing? Is there a more effective tester?

Thanks lads
too_much

*ps* By the way, whenever I have attempted to use that rivatuner before, it never recognises my drivers, no matter what they are. Contrary to what you must all be believing, I do use google, and I do use readmes :D I just spend far too much time on my computer, and end up with lots of questions :( sorry. */ps*

[Dracas]

Some of Asus (and other manufacturers) video cards have built in thermal probes, albeit its rare.

If you own an nForce/nforce2 Mobo (and this ONLY works with nforce boards and nForce video cards) then find some of the coolbits reg entries and add em in (google what a 'coolbit' is) and it should add a tab to your Detonator drive panel for hardware monitoring.

Its pretty rare to get a setup that will support all that though. To date, not sure why they don't make it more common, everyone likes to know what their computer is doing right?

Aside seedy bastards like Dell, HP, and Compaq, who continue to refuse to build thermal monitors into their computers, because they don't want you to know your processors verging 180 F inside the core ;)