checkign Temps under load?

[wheels]

How do you check you all check your gpu and cpu temps at its peak? If your playing a game or running 3dmark its not like you can go see your bios. I am a noob i know.....is there some program your running inthe background to check your temps?

 

[Mrvile]

First you need a program to monitor your motherboard such as Motherboard Monitor 5, or Speedfan. It will display your temps in the bottom right hand corner of your desktop, where the icons are. Then all you need to do is run a program such as Prime95 that puts load on your CPU, and you've got your load CPU temp.

Mine is 35 - 37 idle, 44 - 47 load.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've had trouble accessing the PRIME95 web-server, and have yet to get it to run successfully once installed. [Perhaps if I'm doing something the wrong way, someone could enlighten me, to save me the troubleshooting time and trouble.]

What I do is to run programs in the background which load up the processor, and I can monitor processor-usage with Task Manager's "Performance" Tab while monitoring the temps with my motherboard's ASUS Probe, although SpeedFan or MBM5 would do just as well. For instance, I have a 1999 version of the game "Asteroids" which does not cause the system to heat up noticeably while the game is in play, but if you minimize the game in a suspended state, it loads up the processor to about 50% usage. In order to get the system up to a rock-steady-solid-line 100% usage under Task Manager, I run a Norton Anti-Virus scan on the whole system with Asteroids suspended and running in the background.

I've run programs like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 -- certainly as intensive in processor usage as many games -- but it is so far only the combination of the above programs that get me to 100% load usage -- and the temperatures show it. MS Fright Stimulator pushes the load temps to around 94 or 95F; my other two programs running simultaneously push the load temp to 104F or 40C.

SiSoft Sandra 04 has a "burn-in" wizard which also stress tests the system, and you can watch the temperatures rise through its built-in monitor. But none of the tests in the wizard seem to push my temperatures above the MS Fright Stimulator level . . .

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Well, it seems so far that Prime95 doesn't stress this machine as much as my own home-grown load-test described in earlier posts here. It's running and my temps are pretty solid at about 100F/38C -- not the 104F/40C I've clocked running Asteroids and Norton AV scan in the backbround . . .

Guess I'll just let it run some more and see how it peaks in Asus Probe.

They must have had some problem with their server the last time I tried to run it and came here whining . . . .

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Well, it seems so far that Prime95 doesn't stress this machine as much as my own home-grown load-test described in earlier posts here. It's running and my temps are pretty solid at about 100F/38C -- not the 104F/40C I've clocked running Asteroids and Norton AV scan in the backbround . . .

Guess I'll just let it run some more and see how it peaks in Asus Probe.

They must have had some problem with their server the last time I tried to run it and came here whining . . . .

Another way to stress the CPU is to play an older game, on my case starcraft, and the just minimize it. It seems the older games did not have very good resource management and always run your CPU at 100%. This is a nice way to slam your CPU and watch those temps, though prime 95 is the preferred method.

-spike

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: BonzaiDuck
Well, it seems so far that Prime95 doesn't stress this machine as much as my own home-grown load-test described in earlier posts here. It's running and my temps are pretty solid at about 100F/38C -- not the 104F/40C I've clocked running Asteroids and Norton AV scan in the backbround . . .

Guess I'll just let it run some more and see how it peaks in Asus Probe.

They must have had some problem with their server the last time I tried to run it and came here whining . . . .

Well the virus scan is gonig to put a lot more then just the CPU under load and increase the ambient case temp more then prime would. That could explain why you see higher temps.