Overheat!!

Hello, I own a acer 6930G and when I start playing game in it it feels like it's temp goes upto 200C or something!! I just wanna ask if there's any program by which I can see the temp of my laptop during gameplay?? (more like fraps by which I can see the frame rate during gameplay)

 

Well, not sure if something specific like that exists, but if you can run the game in window mode, real temp or core temp will display the CPU temp in the task bar.

 

Try speedfan or gpu-z either can be found wth a google search.

 

You can get HWmonitor for monitoring the temperatures and Orthos to stress the CPU(100% CPU load which will simulated gaming). No idea for the GPU temps though.

 

HWiNFO32

 

You could use RivaTuner v2.24, you could put like little numbers depending on where you want to see them in-game, although the method escapes me as of this moment since I'm not with my notebook.. Try googling it first, and if you can't find it and still cannot get it to work, PM me or something, and I'll get back to you this night (meaning about three hours or so from now )

 

Okay, so seems like you haven;t had the chance to get back yet. Good. Here we go.

Note: I'll assume that this is your first time using RivaTuner, so pardon me if I'm too spoonfeeding.

Install RivaTuner if you haven't already. After you execute the program, you should see in the "Target Adapter" box a drop-down menu, and a Customize... below it. Click the square with the half-triangle and select Hardware monitoring (looks like a chip under a magnifying glass) You should see some graphs going on there, they're self explanatory.

Click on Setup, and then highlight Core Temperature (make sure you check the, uhh, check, first, so it is enabled) and click Setup again.

In the bottom part of the window that opens, you'll see on-screen display options. Tick "Show core temperature in on-screen display", and then click OK. I think the default magenta-ish color in the OSD cannot be changed, so yeah. Just click OK and OK.

You could also show the other elements in the menu using this function, but maybe it's better to use with benchmarks since it seems to slow gaming the more elements you put in.

I was about to say that you can't close RivaTuner this way, but while I was writing this I came through something I actually didn't even know RivaTuner could do!

After you confirm your selections, and when you go back to the graphs screen, you should see an orange gear logo (RivaTuner logo, actually lol) beside the X button on the Core temperature graph.. Click it, and the monitor will run in background. Now you could close everything. (except the one in the tray.)

You could also customize the location and color etc, by the way, so forget what I said before this. Just click the gear on the taskbar, and a window will pop up. when done, DON'T kill [X] the program, just click the minimize button to keep it running.

Ironically, the RivaTuner monitor is configured by default to show a maximum value of 200C, so you could really see if your temps reach 200C! Whoa. hahaha. Kidding. It couldn't reach that though, without burning every component beside your GPU. Hope this helped ya.

PS: Speedreading is my hobby, so sorry if I took your question just like that. This is for your GPU core temp, you could also use this to view CPU temps, though you're gonna need Everest for that (and I'm not sure if you need the paid one). I suggest you try to undervolt your CPU if you see your CPU Core temps in HWMonitor rise too much.

CORRECTION:

You DO have to keep Hardware monitoring and RivaTuner open, sorry. I don't think there's a way to let the display pop up without it being open. Woooh. Sorry for the mess-up there, man. I hope this still helps.

 

Thanks for all ur help....I think I've managed to figure it out and it seems like my heat doesn't go upto 20