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    Not able to monitor 5850 GPU temp

    Discussion in 'Alienware M15x' started by xalt, Mar 11, 2011.

  1. xalt

    xalt Newbie

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    Hello all, I recently had my 260M card die in my M15X so I had Dell send me a 5850 in its place and it seems to work fine but I am unable to monitor the GPU temp. I have tried both ATI Tray tools and HWMonitor and neither of them work for me. I have tried the Dell driver and am currently using the 11.2 drivers and with both it is the same result, any ideas?
     
    xalt, Mar 11, 2011
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  2. The Revelator

    The Revelator Notebook Prophet

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    The Revelator, Mar 11, 2011
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  3. xalt

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    GPU-Z works good, thanks for the reply.
     
    xalt, Mar 11, 2011
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  4. alvinkhorfire

    alvinkhorfire Notebook Consultant

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    One question here, how do I monitor temperature during the gaming? I mean, during playing the games, there are digits indicating temperature at upper left corner, for an example.
     
    alvinkhorfire, Mar 12, 2011
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  5. Indiran

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    For me, i open HW-info32, then i play game, after that i look at the Max tab, it records the maximum temp your card or processor ever hit. Mine went 78C on DMC4.
     
    Indiran, Mar 12, 2011
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    Thanks, Indiran for your suggestion.

    Someone else suggests using MSI Afterburner to display in-game GPU temperature. Then again, I can only get MSI Afterburner to display GPU load, no matter what sort of setting I tried. Man, it is frustrating.
     
    alvinkhorfire, Mar 14, 2011
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