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CPU & GPU Temp Monitoring in Vista

post #1 of 9
2/11/07 at 4:50pm
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Anyone know of a temp monitoring software that works with Vista?

After about 20 minutes of gaming (FEAR and HL2:E1) it changes to super LAG mode. I'm assuming it is hitting a temp and downclocking the GPU. Did not have this problem in XP so I'm assuming the Nvidia drivers for Vista are screwy or Vista itself is not handling temps properly.
Currently running 100.59. I tried Dell stock and had the same problem. Also tried upgrading to the A05 Bios and that did not help.
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post #2 of 9
2/12/07 at 1:13am
for the GPU monitoring you can install ntune for vista. Its works on Dell and the 100.59 from laptopvideo2go (the 2 I've tried)

http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...ighlight=ntune

that link is from the vista tips from the scotsman and has the download in the first post

I don't have any thing for cpu monitoring yet. I use fangui in XP, dont know if its been ported to vista yet or is compatible. You could always try it and see.



Your right about the problem being sympomatic of a high temp GPU downclocking. The strange thing is that I have not found a way to overclock the GPU in vista. So if your clocks are stock, it should never hit the temp theshold if your cooling systems is working fine.

Did you flash the GPU the "old way" with the modded rom or the new way with Juan's method, or is it stock clock rates

(I have the 7800gtx on a 9300 so there may be something different between the systems. maybe someone with the same system as yours will pitch in)
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post #3 of 9
2/12/07 at 1:35am
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Never modded and running stock clocks. That is why this seems weird to me... never had downclocking problems in XP.
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post #4 of 9
2/12/07 at 2:41am
I've not loaded any games up into vista yet

Like you said, best bet would be to look at the temp log and see if the GPU was throttled down

If you didnt have a dual core machine then I would be suspicious of another process coming on in the background; I always disable real time scanning and sometimes turn off wireless when gaming in XP

Just had a thought, and maybe you were chasing this down with the bios upgrade, but maybe the fanspeeds are not coming onto high settings, which is causing the throttling. The log may tell, and fangui may solve.

g'luck

Anyone out there know if fangui works ok in vista or have similar gaming problems?
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post #5 of 9
2/16/07 at 5:18am
i8kfangui works flawlessly on Vista, its what I use...still controls the fans etc with no problems....
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post #6 of 9
2/16/07 at 7:30am
Post your system specs

EDIT: sorry didn't read your sig.

Try doing the whole Defrag, check disk etc etc, i found that with my old desktop it would randomly restart (it was a heat problem), so i defraged etc etc and it seemed to restart less.
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post #7 of 9
2/16/07 at 2:16pm
i8kfangui works super here on my E1505 - nice
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post #8 of 9
2/16/07 at 2:51pm
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I read in other threads people were having problems with i8kfangui on Vista so I 'assumed' it would not work. Just installed it now and it does work perfectly
8 degree offset on the GPU matches up with what nvMonitor says.

I'm idling at 51 CPU and 62 GPU which is a little higher than what I was getting with XP.
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post #9 of 9
2/16/07 at 2:54pm
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Does anyone know what temp Nvidia throttles down the GPU on a 7950GTX? The alarm is set to go off at 125c (hope I never hit that )
When FEAR starts super lagging after about 15-20 minutes of play, my GPU is 87c.
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