marionez Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Is there any way to monitor temperature of my nVidia 9500 GT? I think it could be quite hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marionez Posted January 23, 2009 Author Share Posted January 23, 2009 Nobody? Nothing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangedaze Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 the only thing i can think of is vmware fusion with a windows install and a monitor app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setveo Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 you can monitor your GPU usage on mac www.atpurpose.com/atMonitor/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marionez Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 In my case GPU section is just like locked on 0% value... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettar Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 In my case GPU section is just like locked on 0% value... Hmm, your GPU might simply be unsupported. How old is your GPU? Does Apple's "OpenGL Driver Monitor" work for you? (it's part of Dev Tool install) Would you mind sending an email to bugs@atpurpose.com and attach your System's profile, or at least the part of it that shows your GPU info? You can use the atMonitor's "Beta->Submit a bug report" menu as a shortcut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marionez Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 I've got a nvidia 9500gt correctely installed, I tried some game demos and they work nicely, so QE/CI enabled, I don't have the dev tools... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cr2000 Posted February 24, 2009 Share Posted February 24, 2009 Is there any way to monitor temperature of my nVidia 9500 GT? I think it could be quite hot I had a similar issue when my 8800GTS kept over heating after about 2-3 hours use. I'm not sure how Leopard video drivers (I'm using nvinject) control the GPU fan, I'm guessing they don't. So I went searching for a utility that I could use to adjust the fan speed up, I wasn't able to find one for Leopard (plenty exist for Windows). I pretty much was about to give up because I couldn't use my iDeneb v1.4 install for more than 2-3 hours before the video would start to artifact and then quit when the card shut down. I then did a bit of research, this may help others. Many of the Nvidia cards have built-in hardware monitoring of the GPU temperature and fan control. The thresholds that the monitoring circuit uses are stored in the flash on the graphics card. With that in mind, I rebuilt a flash image for my card (EVGA 8800GTS SC) with lowered temperature thresholds and higher fan duty cycle. Then flashed the card with the new flash image. So far so good, the card now runs cooler because the fan runs at a higher rate, and ramps faster as the temperature rises. If you are interested in exact details I can put them together. In short I used: NiBiTor (NV BIOS Editor) - Use this to read out your video BIOS, modify the temperature thresholds, and write a new BIOS image file. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-T...OS-Editor.shtml NvFlash (NV Flash Utility) - Use this to flash update the video BIOS on the graphics card with the new image you create. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/nVFlash.shtml Again, if there is interest I'd be happy to write up a step by step guide. I was so frustrated that my 8800GTS kept overheating, if other's have the same problem I'd be happy to help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marionez Posted February 24, 2009 Author Share Posted February 24, 2009 The great news is that my 9500gt is a passive cooling version, there's no fan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepiecesfit Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I had a similar issue when my 8800GTS kept over heating after about 2-3 hours use. I'm not sure how Leopard video drivers (I'm using nvinject) control the GPU fan, I'm guessing they don't. So I went searching for a utility that I could use to adjust the fan speed up, I wasn't able to find one for Leopard (plenty exist for Windows). I pretty much was about to give up because I couldn't use my iDeneb v1.4 install for more than 2-3 hours before the video would start to artifact and then quit when the card shut down. I then did a bit of research, this may help others. Many of the Nvidia cards have built-in hardware monitoring of the GPU temperature and fan control. The thresholds that the monitoring circuit uses are stored in the flash on the graphics card. With that in mind, I rebuilt a flash image for my card (EVGA 8800GTS SC) with lowered temperature thresholds and higher fan duty cycle. Then flashed the card with the new flash image. So far so good, the card now runs cooler because the fan runs at a higher rate, and ramps faster as the temperature rises. If you are interested in exact details I can put them together. In short I used: NiBiTor (NV BIOS Editor) - Use this to read out your video BIOS, modify the temperature thresholds, and write a new BIOS image file. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-T...OS-Editor.shtml NvFlash (NV Flash Utility) - Use this to flash update the video BIOS on the graphics card with the new image you create. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/nVFlash.shtml Again, if there is interest I'd be happy to write up a step by step guide. I was so frustrated that my 8800GTS kept overheating, if other's have the same problem I'd be happy to help out. yes please can you write it out . I need to do this . My card is overheating in osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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