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    How to veiw CPU and GPU temperatures?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by TheProphetofDoom, Apr 28, 2011.

  1. TheProphetofDoom

    TheProphetofDoom Notebook Consultant

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    I just got the R3 on Tuesday and I am curious to know what my temperatures for the CPU and GPU are running at. What program do you all use? Thanks.
     
    TheProphetofDoom, Apr 28, 2011
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  2. Basilownzyou

    Basilownzyou Notebook Consultant

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    There are tons of programs that will do it for you, but one of the simplest way I have found is these little 'Windows Gadgets'.

    Desktop and SideShow gadgets - Microsoft Windows

    There's CPU monitoring ones and GPU as well, along with hundreds of others you might find a use for.

    Looking into it a little further for you, I noticed most of the gadgets were for Vista. This is a site a lot of people claimed having a great cpu/gpu temperature gadget for Win7. It's in German, but can be easily translated to english. I actually use the Vista version of the GPU Gadget they show there, it works great!

    http://www.orbmu2k.de/
     
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  3. Flame113

    Flame113 Notebook Geek

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    CPUID HWMonitor, HWiNFO32... They are all free and really good imo
     
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    Tapakidney Notebook Evangelist

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    I really like Coretemp for CPU - I set it to show my CPU temp, % in use, and speed in my systray.

    For GPU I use SapphireTRIXX. Allows me to overclock my GPU (A LOT) and installs a gadget that shows the temps.
     
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    avelle Notebook Consultant

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    +1 for the CPUID stuff. Stuff works great on my desktop, but I have yet to install it on my R3 but that's coming soon!

    Also MSI Afterburner is an excellent utility for monitoring GPU statistics. With it you can enable an on-screen overlay so you can monitor temperature/fanspeed/clockspeed/framerate/etc in real time while gaming! Also allows overclocking, voltage regulation, manual fan speed settings, etc. This tool is similar to EVGA Precision if you are familiar with that.

    edit: Here's an example of it running on my desktop when I was attempting to debug some issues with FF14 months ago. http://risen.loztblaz.com/avelle/ffxiv/ff14performance2.jpg. Along with the overlay you can enable monitoring in the system tray as well.
     
    avelle, Apr 28, 2011
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