Riva Tuner Temperature Mointor

Hey,

I got a questions, I've been over clocking my card slightly just to get a tiny bit of juice out of it..No reason really just curious to see how it goes.

Now I heard that you need to offset the temperature in the hardware monitor for the GPU by 10+ degrees because it doesn't read correctly.

Is that true? or is my hard really only running at 50 degrees in UT3?

On a side note, what is the safe zone for a laptop GPU temperature wise? Anything under 70 I assume.


Thanks in advanced,
cheers

 

read this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81852

 

Thanks, yup I read that. I still ain't sure.. It isn't to clear to me if it's incorrect or not. Honestly I'm no expert on laptop temperature thresholds, I come from the custom desktop world. lol

So if I should offset 10 degrees, what's the max I should ever let that card get to, safely, not boarder line of safe and dangerous. If it's anything like desktops 70 - 80 degrees, but I'm not sure with laptops..

Right now it says it's at 43/47 degrees ideal, in UT3 and other games around 50 - 53 is what it's telling me.

 

I went over the offset options.

If you leave your system on idle (from just turning it on)... the GPU fan should kick on around 55-60C degrees... low-level programming of most of the mobile Nvidia GPUs.
(make sure that you set the videocard to Max Performance in Powermizer)

As for the dangerous temps, anything above 90-95C degrees is dangerous (causing the videocard to downclock itself to cool down), and threshold temps is above 100C degress... which would cause the system to shutoff.

So you can offset the temp value to near 55-60C on idle.

And the ambient temp (room temp) matters as well... I am generalizing for an average room temp of 70-75C degrees without air conditioning.

The thermal design of a notebook will determine how high it can get.

 

OH wow, it's pretty much identical to Desktops then. Excellent thanks.

Heres a good question, why does the temperature read so low for? Seems really weird.

Thanks for clearing things for me.

 

RivaTuner tries its best to detect and interpret the low-level readings of each videocard... so sometimes it may need to offset certain monitored values... temps usually.

Many people with the mobile 7900/7950GTX, have gotten -150C degrees.... so they just offset it and then it fine.