Nvidia gpu temps

Hey guys

I got my new laptop today and its my first time using an nvidia card. I wanted to know what is the best program/gadget people use to monitor their temps. Preferably in the taskbar on the side or something.

 

I use this one: GPU Observer Gadget | Windows 7 Gadgets

It can display the temps, GPU load, VPU load, memory usage, and a few other things.

 

A lot of people here use HWinfo32

 

In my opinion best one for monitoring is

MSI Afterburner

Can overclock, ON SCREEN DISPLAY of temps, clocks, usage, fans, and also a graph.
Oh yeah you can also have your temp as a tray icon.

If you want max/min use HWMonitor

 

I'm also using MSI Afterburner from time to time, along with HWmonitor

MSI Af for in-game display and HWmonitor just to check my max

 

Omg im getting nearly 93c on starcraft 2 with my gts 360m.
This is scaring me, is this normal? holy sh...

 

Depends on the laptop if that's normal or not, but its still not really that good.

I personally use rivatuner for monitoring... although I have it monitor more than just the GPU. Also works for manually controlling GPU clocks and overclocking.

 

Not Normal~ nearing Meltdown state ..
Try Re-pasting Thermal Paste?

 

its an asus g51jx, and i just got it today so its literally brand new.
the thing is, i have no clue where the fan is for my model. Look at the base.






that peice of paper is just for covering the windows 7 code. But theres no fan near the vent, where does this thing get its air?

 

Do you have the latest patch for SC2?

Apparently there's a bug in the earlier version where cutscenes rendered at unlimited FPS, therefore baking the graphics cards.

 

It just sucks up air from those little holes by the vent.

Most fans don't have a direct intake... there's always air near it, it's not like no intake=vacuum.

Look at this picture of the MSI E7405 from @tilla (I have same model). There's only 6 slots on top of the fan, similar to yours, yet it still cools effectively because it only blows air onto the heatpipe, which can be done without an intake.

 

Yeah i have the latest patch, i even have the frameratecapglue thing set to 30. Its just me playing against the ai and i get nearly 93c. Some guy in the g51 thread said that i should wait a few days for the thermal paste to "settle in" and it should go down by 5c or so. Still, this seems like a lot. I get mid to high 80's playing street fighter 4 and stuff like that.

also it idles in the mid 50s

 

Temp monitoring: Rivatuner, with Stats Server showing temps in the OSD while in a game.

Do a search on these forums, there's plenty of pics of cooling mods for G51/G51J/G51JX.

The fan's right behind to the heatsinks you can see through the vent. The air comes from all around, every tiny vent on the bottom, and a bit through the keyboard. Which is a good idea in theory but in practise the 100W from CPU+GPU going through the fan needs as much air as it can get that already isn't heated from dissipation from other components in the chassis.

93C is the normal operating temp for my gtx260m (G51J), the GTS360M is generally about 10C cooler on average though.

Try furmark, see what that tops out at, that will be the highest temp you ever see.

 

yeah i ran sc2 for about 20-25 mins and basically what happens is that as soon as the temp hits 90, the fan hits 100% and cools it back down to a high 80 range at which point it goes back down to 80% or 70% and repeats the cycle over and over.
Maybe ill pick up a cooler later.

 

Lol that's what happens with my 9600M GS on my old laptop.

In *FURMARK!* at almost *50%* OC on Core and Shader and about 100MHz OC on memory it gets to 72, then fans start doing their thing and drops back to 67 and repeats.

I have no idea why they don't have the fans going strong at something like 80C...

On my E7405 the fans start going at around 63C and then once it gets about 71-72 it kicks into full gear.

 

i found a way to set my fan to 100% all the time, played some sf4 with that and got a mid 70-77 temp range. really inconvenient though because i can only reset it back to normal doing a hard shutdown.

 

Should have thought about that before buying this laptop, there are dozens of threads about the g50-1 series laptop having high temperatures.

 

i already know they had high temps, just not THAT high lol. because these temps seemed abmornal to me.

 

90c range is normal, sadly it seems to be a pattern for laptop makers.

 

i guess u need a repaste anytime u get a G51JX...a G73JH runs cool but a repaste helps especially if asus bugbears haven't applied paste properly..

 

From my experience an oced nvidia gpu usually stays above the 80ies in normal conditions.
Get a lappy cooler, the zalman nc2000 does the job perfectly and repaste both cpu and gpu with some arctic silver mx3 or ic diamond,far better than AS5 imho.
Since the laptop have one heatsink for both gpu and cpu you need to get the cpu a few degrees cooler, it helps the gpu as well.

 

I'd have to say that laptop makers are getting better with their cooling solutions. Those temps are normal, my old Asus G51 with a GTX260m regularly would hit 90-93C while gaming, even when on a cooling pad, and repasted. Eventually I just accepted the fact that the laptop just ran hot, additionally it never overheated or caused me any sort of problems.

My new MSI GX660 with a ATI HD5870m has an amazing cooling solution, by far the best laptop cooler I've ever seen. The GPU idles at 50C, and hits a max of 66C in games, and thats without the "push of a button cooling" If I turn on the cooling fan, the laptop idles around 40C and about 56Cmax in games, sometimes lower. There is no arguing with those temps. If I were you, I'd return the laptop if you're concerned about heat. The new Asus G53JW is suppose to have a great cooling solution also. Maybe look into the MSI, its a good deal for what you pay.

 

Lol...bugbears.

Entirely dependent upon the notebook itself, not the brand of GPU.

However, notebooks with NVIDIA GPU's do seem to run cooler anyway...

 

The GX660 is more expensive than the $999.99 he paid.

Best price/performance ratio for gaming has to go with GX640/GX740/E7405.

There's no performance gain with a cool system. On my E7405 I OC'ed to 850/1080 and it still runs under 80C, which is great.

 

Not for the ones that have decent build quality. Regardless of what games I play, my GPU rarely goes beyond 78C. However, I had an Asus with an inferior GPU and its idle temp was 20C higher and temps under load where rubbish.

 

Partially true mate. What im talking about is stress testing the gpu only with a proper or dedicated cooling solution.
The nvidia working temps are even detailed into engineering papers. Lets say that a gpu not oced should stay in range 25-75c.
Overclocked, lets see, lets add 10 degrees? All my nvidia cards usually peak 81c under heavy gaming, but those are rare occasions thought.

I concord on the fact that generally nvidia gpus are more cooler than atis. I had a few notebook (a recent one with hd4550 as well) that without ocing can jump to 84°. Insane.

Theyre getting the same AMD habit: intel cpus usually are cooler than amds. I mem having a BE 6400+ that peaked 80c like nothing althought AS5 was applied and a custom cooler as well.

 

The GX740 and GX640 do seem to be pretty good deals, but from reading the reviews they seem to run dang hot. I'm sure to get those temps you've gone through the process of undervolting, repasting, drilling, etc. I'd rather pay the extra $150-200 and get a great set of laptop speakers, a very cool system, and some peace of mind that the laptop will most likely last me a longer time. I've gone the route of a hot laptop before, and I'm not wasting more time tweaking, and repasting every few months to keep the temps down. Down the road, when I upgrade to an i7 extreme I won't have to worry as much about temps either. Put and i7 extreme in those laptops, and I'm sure it would overheat a lot faster.

 

Agreed. My G73 peaks at around 101C on Furmark. Absolutely freakin' ridiculous. It REALLY needs a repaste. Which I will be doing when I get some ICD7.

It would be worthwhile to mention that the G73JW with the same cooling system generally peaks around 75C.

 

My 740 stock never repaste everything same out of box runs 80C with just a 5 second vBIOS update.

 

Are you sure both the laptops have the same cooling system? I agree with a poster above, the temp of the GPUs is more dependent on the individual cooling system of the laptop rather than the GPU itself.