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    HWMonitor not recognizing 6770m GPU

    Discussion in 'HP' started by BeaverRat, Jun 12, 2011.

  1. BeaverRat

    BeaverRat Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,
    Im trying to find a way to monitor the temps on my CPU and GPU (6770M) while playing games, and I discovered HWMonitor. It appears to work great fot the CPU, it shows realtime, min and max, but the software isn't able to see the dedicated card, only the intel integrated graphics. I also tried setting it as High Performance in CCC, but it made no difference.

    Here is a screenshot...

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    The interesting thing is that HWMonitor says the integrated graphics were getting hot, but I know for a fact that the dedicated graphics were in use, cause I was running starcraft 2 at 1080P on High with 50 FPS... And SC2 is set to high performance in the CCC...
     

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    Kahn20 Notebook Consultant

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    I use HWMonitor every time I boot up a demanding application. From what I can tell, it will only read temperature and voltage if the Radeon is in use. If the IGP is on, it will not read voltages at all, and temps will all stay at 0.
     
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    Ok, this screenshot was taken while I was playing SC2 with the 6770m though... Maybe it just calls both cards Mobile Intel HD Graphics...
     
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    Yes, that's correct. Sorry, that's what I was trying to get at in my post. The only way to tell which one is active is if HWMonitor is showing temps and voltage properly.
     
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    Ok thanks! That's interesting that it can't actually call the GPU by it's proper name though...
     
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