How do I find the temps of my GPU and NB?
 

I overclock my Graphics card alot and I was just wondering is there any program that I could use to determine the temperature of it when it is being overclocked? And also the Northbridge too because I bought a new cooler for it because my old Abit one was too loud and I wanna see how cool that gets too. So if there are any programs that will show me this please let me know.

The mobo has to be recording those temps, and I don't know of any mobo that records the NB temp.. get sensors and do it that way, that's probably the most accurate anyway.

ehem... KT7A RAID does. Too bad they don't make mobo's like the old days. :nod:

Pwnt! by a l33t moderator Jason :biggrin:

no, you're pwned because you still don't get your NB temp.. what.. 8)

Actually he might because Abit recently released better monitoring software for some of the newer boards including his. Here's the link NaPsTeR... See if that helps!

for a true detection, i would get sensors and superglue them onto the side of the chips

hmm, i know in linux the nvidia-settings tool records the temperature of my nvidia graphics card (i don't know about ati). For the most part, coolmon and motherboardmonitor do a great job of recording temps and whatnot.

it's the sensor on the mobo that makes the diff, not the prog..

often sensors arent placed as closed to the chip as possible
so glueing your own sensors to the dies would get you the most accurate readings

I know that, but the thing is if his Abit has a NB sensor, regular software will likely not check it because very very few mobo's have it.

likely not...........


but who knows what's too hot for the NB anyway? just touch it! ;)

LOL, so true!

the touch test is the truest of all.. you can FEEL the accuracy... if it's too hot for you, it's probably too hot for the comp.. although my psu get's burning hot... but that's its problem.. :/

ha ha ha ROFL!!!

lmao, yeah, just open your case and start touchin stuff! you'll fidure out the problem really fast! i was just about to spray water on mine to make sure its conducting okay!