The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    HWmonitor and SXPS 1640, Win7 x64

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jfdube, Oct 5, 2009.

  1. jfdube

    jfdube Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    320
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Anyone else with a SXPS 1640, running Win7 x64, notice that HWmonitor does not show the GPU Temp (ATI 4670)?

    I'm using HWmonitor 1.14 x64. All it shows is the CPU, mainboard and HDD, but no GPU section at all... Should I try the x86 version of HWmonitor instead?

    Also, I notice a permanent temperature variance between HWmonitor and CoreTemp, the later always showing temps about 5 degrees higher.
     
    jfdube, Oct 5, 2009
    #1
  2. fred2028

    fred2028 Sexy member

    Reputations:
    196
    Messages:
    2,205
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Yes, there are quite a few topics on this, including 1 of my own.
     
    fred2028, Oct 5, 2009
    #2
  3. jfdube

    jfdube Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    320
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Any reason why? Which Temp monitoring programs do you use for the GPU?
     
    jfdube, Oct 5, 2009
    #3
  4. scorpeeon

    scorpeeon Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    95
    Messages:
    377
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    yeah, this gpu is not supported yet by hwmonitor. use gpuz or everest instead.
     
    scorpeeon, Oct 5, 2009
    #4
  5. jfdube

    jfdube Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    320
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yeah I'm using GPU-Z now. Temps show up fine.

    As for my other question, why is there such a big temp difference between CoreTemp and HWmonitor?
     
    jfdube, Oct 5, 2009
    #5
  6. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

    Reputations:
    6,156
    Messages:
    11,214
    Likes Received:
    68
    Trophy Points:
    466
    One of them is detecting your CPU incorrectly and setting the wrong Tjunc max. See here
     
    flipfire, Oct 5, 2009
    #6
  7. jfdube

    jfdube Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    320
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. In this case CoreTemp must be the right one, as it detects, rightfully, a 105-degree TJunc on my T9600. HWmonitor must calculate temps based on a wrong value.
     
    jfdube, Oct 5, 2009
    #7