Any program to measure video temps?

[joe360]

I heard omega drivers kill mobility video cards, any program to measure video temp?

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: joe360
I heard omega drivers kill mobility video cards, any program to measure video temp?

By "video temp" do you mean video card temperature?
If yes, it depends on your graphics card. What is your graphics card?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: joe360
I heard omega drivers kill mobility video cards, any program to measure video temp?

By "video temp" do you mean video card temperature?
If yes, it depends on your graphics card. What is your graphics card?

I would assume it's an ATI mobility Radeon. I think the 9800XT (R360 core) and newer ATI cards were the only cards that support GPU temperature monitoring, but not sure about the mobility cards.

 

[joe360]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: joe360
I heard omega drivers kill mobility video cards, any program to measure video temp?

By "video temp" do you mean video card temperature?
If yes, it depends on your graphics card. What is your graphics card?

Yeah I do mean the video card temperature, I have the MR9700

 

[scorp00]

6800's come with one. No real program can do it unless your video card has built in thermal measuring devices. You can buy external hardware to measure it though.

 

[Navid]

I don't believe that card has a temperature sensor on it.
For cards that do have a temperature sensor, the temperature can be viewed on one of the tabs of the display properties window.

You can also try installing ATItool. It should be able to access the data if the card had a sensor.

 

[joe360]

Okay then, thanks everyone..

So is there anyway to know if I'm pushing my video card too hard?

 

[joe360]

bump

 

[Navid]

Never increase the clock frequency by a large amount at once. Always increase by a small step (5MHz) and run ATItool to serch for artifacts.
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

If you see artifacts in a game or while running ATItool, reduce frequency.

If you do not see artifacts and do not experience crashed to desktop while running games, you should be OK.