How do you monitor the temp of a video card like Radeon 9800?!

[Dance123]

Hi,

Can anybody please tell me how you can monitor the temp of a video card, like the Hercules Radeon 9800?! I am gonna get the Asus P4C800 mobo, so I suppose Asus Probe will let me monitor temps of mobo and CPU, but how do I monitor the temp of the Hercules Radeon 9800 card which I intend to get. Can the Asus mobo do this, are there any programs for it that can read this from the Radeon card, etc.. How is this being done?

Can you also tell me what the allowed max. temp is for such a Hercules Radeon 9800 card, as I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

Thanks in advance!

Mike.

 

[klc314]

ASUS supplies a utility with their Radeon 9800XT card called SmartDoctor that reads fan speed, temp, and voltage. The manual says it'll read any ATI card with the right chip, so it might work. The default shutdown temp in the utility is 75C, so that should be pretty close to what the GPU will handle.

 

[Peter D]

Temperature probe?

 

[Dance123]

Originally posted by: klc314
ASUS supplies a utility with their Radeon 9800XT card called SmartDoctor that reads fan speed, temp, and voltage. The manual says it'll read any ATI card with the right chip, so it might work. The default shutdown temp in the utility is 75C, so that should be pretty close to what the GPU will handle.

I suppose this SmartDoctor program only works with the XT version of the 9800 or will it also work with a Hercules Radeon 9800 non-pro?!

Any other programs that can do this for a Hercules 9800 Radeon non-pro?! And what about the Asus P4C800. Doesn't that come with any utility to read the videocard temp? Or does the Hercules card perhaps comes with such an utility?!

 

[Alkaline5]

The only Radeons I'm aware of that support temperature monitoring are the XTs and some Gigabyte models. You'll have to remove the heatsink and place a hardware sensor next to the GPU if you want to know how hot it is.

 

[klc314]

Quoting from the manual "The SmartDoctor utility works only for graphics card models with a built-in hardware monitor IC. If the hardware monitor IC is not present, only the SmartDoctor overclocking function will be installed." I think the Cat3.8 drivers from ATI have a monitoring function with most 9800 cards, but am not sure.

 

[GullyFoyle]

Originally posted by: klc314
Quoting from the manual "The SmartDoctor utility works only for graphics card models with a built-in hardware monitor IC. If the hardware monitor IC is not present, only the SmartDoctor overclocking function will be installed." I think the Cat3.8 drivers from ATI have a monitoring function with most 9800 cards, but am not sure.

...and so far, only the XT cards have the built-in hardware monitor IC. That's the same reason only XT cards can do dynamic overclocking.

Well actually, the Tyan Tachyon version of the 9600 Pro had hardware monitoring, but since it was their own design (rather than ATI's reference design, like most cards), it may not be compatible either.

As mentioned above, for 9800's built before the XT, you need to purchase and install your own thermal sensor to read the temperature of the card.