About AMD OverDrive

[Nick]

The temperature showing on AMD OverDrive is the real? For example, says that the video card (idle) is 46 ° C. It means missing 46ºC for her to get to a critical state or that it is, definitely, the 46°C?

[PLANTROON]

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Idle temp of 46 degrees is not that good for a desktop PC but it's still ok. If it says 46 degrees, then the video card has temperature of 46 degrees. Also, isn't OverDrive an unsupported application nowadays?

[Nick]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Idle temp of 46 degrees is not that good for a desktop PC but it's still ok. If it says 46 degrees, then the video card has temperature of 46 degrees. Also, isn't OverDrive an unsupported application nowadays?

I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC ... the temperature is bad? What program should I use to measure temperature? Everest?

[PLANTROON]

Originally posted by NR92:

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Idle temp of 46 degrees is not that good for a desktop PC but it's still ok. If it says 46 degrees, then the video card has temperature of 46 degrees. Also, isn't OverDrive an unsupported application nowadays?

I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC ... the temperature is bad? What program should I use to measure temperature? Everest?

It's up to you which program you use. The temperature is not bad, it's average / good enogh...

[schnitzeljaeger]

Originally posted by NR92:

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Idle temp of 46 degrees is not that good for a desktop PC but it's still ok. If it says 46 degrees, then the video card has temperature of 46 degrees. Also, isn't OverDrive an unsupported application nowadays?

I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC ... the temperature is bad? What program should I use to measure temperature? Everest?

The temperature isn't bad. Depending on your GPU model, speed of your fans in the case it's normal. High temperature is usually above 70, critical 90+ for most cards.
A good program to monitor temps and automatically adjust your fans is SpeedFan. It's a bit tricky to configure though ;)

[Nick]

Originally posted by schnitzeljaeger:

Originally posted by NR92:

I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC ... the temperature is bad? What program should I use to measure temperature? Everest?

The temperature isn't bad. Depending on your GPU model, speed of your fans in the case it's normal. High temperature is usually above 70, critical 90+ for most cards.
A good program to monitor temps and automatically adjust your fans is SpeedFan. It's a bit tricky to configure though ;)

My videocard is HD 7790. I don't know the bad temperatures for him.

[Andrius227]

I personally use msi afterburner. Shows all the good stuff like temps, usage, fan speed. Allows overclocking and control of fan speed by setting up a custom fan curve. Also has in-game overlays and screenshots capture. It's pretty amazing but may take a bit to fully learn how to use.

[Nick]

Originally posted by Andrius227:

I personally use msi afterburner. Shows all the good stuff like temps, usage, fan speed. Allows overclocking and control of fan speed by setting up a custom fan curve.

Can I control fan speed of my cabinet 2 fans? I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC. They are working, but the temperature doens't change anything.

[Andrius227]

Originally posted by NR92:

Originally posted by Andrius227:

I personally use msi afterburner. Shows all the good stuff like temps, usage, fan speed. Allows overclocking and control of fan speed by setting up a custom fan curve.

Can I control fan speed of my cabinet 2 fans? I put two coolers 8cm today on my PC. They are working, but the temperature doens't change anything.

No, i'm pretty sure msi afterburner only controls the gpu, not the case fans.

[Nick]

67ºC playing 23 minutes of TF2. :(

[upcoast]

Originally posted by NR92:

67ºC playing 23 minutes of TF2. :(

http://anandtech.com/show/6837/amd-radeon-7790-review-feat-sapphire-the-first-desktop-sea-islands/16

Idles a bit out of line but load is where it should be.

If you run 2 monitors the card idles higher than normal and a tv counts as a 2nd monitor.

Ps, use GPU-Z to log a file while playing it'll give you temps, gpu usage, vram usage.

[Andrius227]

Originally posted by NR92:

67ºC playing 23 minutes of TF2. :(

Thats pretty normal. The idle temps are a bit higher than it could be probably because it uses quiet fan settings by default. All my gpus that i install for the first time always allow high temps even under load, just to keep the fans quiet. So i always have to turn up the fan curve manually to make the fan speed up faster when temps increase.

[Paraborne]

I just built my PC a few days ago, and my video card is the MSI GTX 980 Gaming. It has a setting where the fans don't start untill about 50C, and maintains a temp between 50-60C. Below 50C the fans turn off, and the card goes down to 40C and stays there. I think yours is a good temperature if it is that high because of lack of fan usage, but if it is that high with your fans goin then I think it's warming up too much for idle.

[Nick]

Originally posted by Lee:

I just built my PC a few days ago, and my video card is the MSI GTX 980 Gaming. It has a setting where the fans don't start untill about 50C, and maintains a temp between 50-60C. Below 50C the fans turn off, and the card goes down to 40C and stays there. I think yours is a good temperature if it is that high because of lack of fan usage, but if it is that high with your fans goin then I think it's warming up too much for idle.

Well, I live in Brazil and is very hot this summer (32°C almost every day). I think this may also explain something.

[BBP: Baka.Bonkura.Ponkstu]

I don't have a lot of knowledge about this... but I heard a couple of times that some drivers can make your GPU hotter at idle temperature. Could this be it?

[Nick]

Is 80ºC playing 5 min of Portal 2. This is normal?