great way to monitor temps for you FX laptop

Using Rivatuner and Everest Ultimate for temperature monitoring

What you will need
-Rivatuner-http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163
-Everest Ultimate -http://www.lavalys.com/

Everest Ultimate configuration
Install Everest Ultimate
Once installed load it up and click on file>prefrences

Copy my settings or change to your own

Hardware monitoring>vista sidebar

Copy my settings here

Hardware monitoring>vista sidebar>sidebar items

Select anything you want in the vista sidebar here. Note:these do not affect the OSD in rivatuner at all

Hardware monitoring>external applications

Make sure the enable shared memory checkbox is ticked. Then add any monitored items you would like passed over to riva tuner checked. I have GPU temp, HD temp, CPU temp checked. Rivatuner has a number of plugins for other cool tricks

That’s it for everest!

Rivatuner configuration
Install rivatuner

Go to setting tab

Recommend Use my settings here

Back under main page
http://boroboyz.com/captures/rivatuner main.JPG
Click the button I circled in red
Click the far right button(hardware monitoring)
Should see something similar to this


Click the red button in the bottom right. This makes rivatuner monitor temps without the window being open

Click setup

Click on all the things you want monitored for your OSD to show while in a 3d gaming mode.
I chose fram rate, core temp, and several others.

Next click on plugins. Its in the lower left

Check the CPU.DLL, Everest.dll,
And you can mess with other ones
Hit ok when finished with the plugins page.
That should bring you back to the hardware monitoring setup page
Under the datasources(we clicked some earlier) you should see some new data sources you can check. CPU temp, HD temp, and whatever else is being passed from everest we configured earlier
Check all the ones you want monitored on the OSD.
Back out of that screen and you should be back at the one with the graphs

Should look like something similar to this( don’t mind my harddrive temperature defragging the drive)
Next right click on a graph(you need to do all of them) but one at a time
Click setup
Should see something like this

Click the checkbox at the bottom that says show {data source name} in on-screen display
Replace the group name if you would like
And then I think…not sure at this part but you click the run server button on one of them. And that should enable the OSD statistics server in the tray. And should run at startup as well.
Then click ok

REMEMBER you have to enable each datasource to be shown in the OSD!!!!!

And here is what you will see in the end.
Note the vista sidebar
http://boroboyz.com/captures/desktop.jpg

And the game picture—that is supposed to say NBR
http://boroboyz.com/captures/game.jpg

 

rep me if you liked it

and post up any questions you have!

 

good job focus

 

Excellent Write up..

+Rep

 

thanks for the comments all, any luck getting it running??

 

also, kinda a side note but while defragging drive I hit 61C I moved the front edge of the laptop off to the edge of the desk where the vents could suck in air...if they do at all. and my temps dropped 6 degree's!

 

@focusfre4k - nice guide. Rep for you.

 

Focus.. Is there a way to test your temps to see if you have a bad GPU without having to download and setup the temp monitoring software?

 

you may be able to use some other application. I think most want to be installed however. but nothing comes with windows if thats what your asking???

 

Yeah.. that's what I was wondering.

Recommend any temp freeware?

 

Not sure what you are asking. Temp monitoring (as in knowing what the GPU temp is in real time) can be done with HWMonitor which can be run from .exe.

If you are wanting to stress the GPU while you are doing all this temp monitoring, Furmark is a good program but does install. A program that does not install but still does a fair job of stressing the GPU and reveals any pixelation is rthdribl http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

I just ran it 1920x1200 full screen on my nice oc and it locked up. What's up with that? Trying it at stock clocks.
I was undervolted to 9V so maybe that was it.

Did stock for awhile with no problems.

 

Very nice work! +rep

 

I use CoreTemp, small app that monitors CPU + GPU temp.

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Vista 32bit/64bit compatible, if you have a Logitech G15 keyboard it supports displaying stats on your G15 LCD.

 

Did CoreTemp add GPU?

 

I did not see it adding functionality for GPU unless I am missing something

also, everest has logitech G15 support. I just tried it out

file> prefrences> LCD check the box at the top.



Thanks for all the feed back guys! and gals

 

how come i can't see it in my vista sidebar but only on the taskbar? i did the same settings as yours for EVEREST

 

Did you add Everest in the sidebar settings?

 

Isn't Everest Ultimate a pay version? And +rep for a good guide.

 

oh forgot that.. thanks

and thanks for the OP for the great guide

 

everest ultimate costs money...not sure if free version works or not

 

bump just cause I miss my old thread LOL!

 

A true Classic indeed.
+rep for nostalgic purposes.

 

I am still running this without any problems! working great on my logitech G15 keyboard as well

 

while this is very nice, i don't care much for running everest nor riva tuner.

so i searched and found a gadget using hwmonitor (zero footprint ftw):

look here it takes less than 5 minutes to set up
and it works perfectly on win7.

i went very fast through it and get the following, from the thread you can see it has much more juice in it.

 

I was more concerned with in game temps. does that have an OSD?

 

dont think so just a gadget

 

Any ideas why my there is no hard drive temperature buttons for me to click on my everest to monitor the temps? Cant Figure it out, using 2 of the drives in raid atm

 

because you are using the drives in raid. individually, you would be able to monitor the hard drive temps.

 

that is correct.

thats the only downside.

I have had my laptop long enough to know how the palm rest feels when it gets too hot so I am not worried.

 

bored so I figured Id bump it again

still runs like a champ!

 

bump! Still use this daily on my lappy!

also, is anyone interested in a sweet way to get this done with ubuntu? if so here ya go!

in a terminal type in the following

sudo apt-get install sensors-applet

once installed close the terminal

right click the task bar. add a panel/widgit
then add the hardware sensors application.

supports the GPU, HDD, CPU all right out of the box. I love it!

 

HWmonitor is a free program monitors hdd gpu cpu and acpi

 

to each their own. I like the OSD functions and some of the advanced alarm/alerting functionality. as well as the open API's to work with the data to suit my needs.