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    HW Monitor Not Detecting GPU?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by battousai10k, Jul 25, 2010.

  1. battousai10k

    battousai10k Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm using HW Monitor and 10.6 drivers, and for some reason HW Monitor doens't show the temps for my 5850m. It's driving me nuts, since I want one simple program that monitors cpu and gpu.

    Anyone know why this is happening?
     
    battousai10k, Jul 25, 2010
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    Have you got the latest version of HWmonitor
     
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    HWmonitor has problems with MR5xxx series cards, get GPU-Z or HWiNFO32, the latter will monitor everything.

    EDIT: It's possible that the problem has been fixed in the latest version of HWmonitor, i haven't checked in a while.
     
    tijo, Jul 25, 2010
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    I'm using the latest version, so not sure why that's happening.

    I've used HWINFO 32, but its a bit over the top, and a lot more more complex, I wanted to avoid using that, since I simply want the temps rather than all that extra information.
     
    battousai10k, Jul 25, 2010
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    Thanks for the suggestions so far. I tried HWINFO 32 again. Played a game for a bit, and looked at my GPU temps, there were a couple of different areas though, one seemed to be for the thermal compound. Which line should I look at for the general temp of my GPU, since the thermal compound temp seemed a lot higher than the other ones.
     
    battousai10k, Jul 26, 2010
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