F8SP-X1: gpu/cpu temp displays

Hey guys,

I'm pretty new here. Just picked up my Asus 2 days ago. Notebookcheck states the HD 3650 to be 600/700 core/mem, but GPU-Z says my HD 3650 is running at 600/400. I would like to tweak it a bit to pull out some better numbers but I can't seem to get rivatuner, ati tools, or ati tray tools to display in game cpu and gpu temps. I have everest now and it does dispaly these temps on the tool bar, however, I'm not sure how accurate they are and how I would be able to use it to determine the effects of the tweaking.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

-groovin

 

RivaTuner should work fine.

Make sure to switch the display to:
- Plug and Play Monitor
- Default Monitor

... order to see the temps.

 

So I should switch from plug n play to default? I go ahead and try that and keep you posted. Thanks,

-groovin

 

Alright, both displays still won't allow me to do anything. Any other suggestions?

-groovin

 

if you read my guide.

you will see that the main RivaTuner window has a pull-down menu to chose default or plug-n-play.

choose the one that will give the Hardware Monitor a temp reading.

 

Don't get me wrong its a good guide. The problem is, as I previously stated, I get no hardware monitoring button on either display nor are any drivers being detected. Is there anything else I can do besides the above? From your experience, what ati drivers are detected by rivatuner? Thanks,

-groovin

 

if there's no hardware monitor button... I would try other drivers.

 

Which drivers? I'm still on vista, I tried looking at omega and extreme but they only have drivers for XP.

-groovin

 

www.laptopvideo2go.com

For the latest (look for Asus ones for best results):
http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/index.php?showforum=89

 

Arn't those for Nvidia based gpus? I have an ATI HD 3650.

-groovin

 

oh my bad... i thought u had a Nvidia GPU.

ATI mobile GPU's are hard to monitor due to them not having hardware sensors that can be read from third-party programs (like RivaTuner)

Nvidia mobile GPUs are built like their desktop GPU brothers... with almost every hardware monitor sensor in them... making it easy to monitor.

I would also try:
- HWmonitor

However, there should be a temp monitor in your Overdrive tab of the Catalyst Control Center.

 

I'll check out both of those. Currently I am using everest to monitor gpu diode temp and cpu temp. I just want to be able to monitor gpu temp while I game/test some clocking setups.

Vista and ATI is really whooping my ass. I know this card is capable of producing higher numbers. Wheres the support!?

-groovin

 

I think I prefer everest over HWmonitor unless however you can get it to display gpu temps in game.

And I was not able to find a temp monitor in the overdrive tab. It also sucks that overdrive has no effect on vista is for XP as well.

-groovin

 

the Catalyst drivers get locked down by Vista's UAC and privileges sometimes.

 

I guess I'll have to wait till I have time to locate all the drivers for XP to pull out higher numbers. Till then I guess...

Thanks for your much appreciated help.

-groovin