GPU Monitoring / Control

[carl]

I'm using lm_senors and xsensor app on Arch Linux and KSystem Monitor to give me a as close as experience to Windows based utilities such as PowerTech CPU-Z for CPU core temperatures and fan speed etc.

However, I've not come across anything for Linux that works like MSI Afterburner or Precision XOC for fan curve control, on screen display or overclocking. I've had the proprietary Nvidia X Settings utilities that lets me tweak Nvidia GPUs some way but not to the extent of Afterburner. Nvidia X Settings gives out a basic GPU temperature but EVGA have put 9 temperature sensors on their ICX cooling cards...whether it's necessary is debateable. I know they got burned with ACX and now the over reaction.

Is it safe to assume there's no need for GPU fan control or realtime temperature monitoring because we can rely on the VBIOS in the card will take care of everything? And what about GPU overclocking with Linux?

What does everyone use? I'm not keen on using Nvidia X Settings or installing their closed source driver.

Does psensor offer anything more than xsensors? What is acpitz sensor indicating?

Thanks

[Bobtail Squid]

Well you better start programming xD

[king of nothin]

+1

[[GNU/LINUX] Norbert]

You probably already explored "nvidia-smi" and "nvidia-smi dmon -i 0" to get the GPU temp.
The sensord (sensors and sensors-detect) package will give you CPU temps and voltages and fan speeds while with gkrellm you should be able to find your GPU under Builtins -> Sensors -> Temperatures.
nvidia-settings will allow you to overclock the core and memory of the GPU, after you enabled some bits in your xorg.conf.
With more bits in xorg.conf you should be able to expose and control the GPU fan but I never did that.
All of this is with nvidia proprietary drivers and I guess you already knew all of it, let me know if else.

[carl]

Ok thanks it was pretty much what I was expecting, nothing much more for Linux. Anyhow I wasn't going to risk bricking a brand new video card just yet. I wanted to confirm that the factory set fan profile of a GPU is taking care of by it's BIOS and there's no worries about that. Oveclocking GPU not so important. I'm happy a game can run smoothly at all.

btw xsensors is showing me one of the temperature sensors is at -60C on a two year old MSI Z97 board...

I've got the Nvidia driver installed on another PC with Manjaro but use the GUI through KDE. I've tried downloading the Nvidia settings user guide for the terminal commands from their website but the link looks to be broken.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/appendix-t.html