Issues Monitoring GPU

Greetings!

Having spent a lot off time in these forums, I have become interested in better monitoring the workings of my G73Jh, especially GPU temps.

I have downloaded a number of applications, as suggested in these threads, but I seem to be having some issues with some of them, and I'm hoping I can get some help here.

The applications in question are: HWInfo; CPU_Z; GPU_Z; and AMD GPU Clock Tool.

I have taken a number of snippets of different screens from the various applications, and I will try and add a brief description.

Please indulge me with with this rather long post.



This is the System Summary Page from HWInfo. Please note that a few things under :Features: are grayed out.





Sensor Status page from HWInfo.




Main CPU page of CPU_Z. Please also note grayed out items.




Graphics page from CPU_Z. Note empty fields, and grayed out values.




Graphics Card page of GPU_Z. Note grayed/unknown fields.




Sensors page from GPU_Z, with nothing showing up.




And finally, after installing AMD GPU Clock Tool, when I try and run it, I get the above error message.


I must emphasize that the notebook is running great, although I am now getting worried over these readings (or non-readings)

The Display Driver, as can be seen in the image below, is version 8.683.0.0.



If anyone could give me a headsup as to what is going on here I would greatly appreciate it.

Again, I do apologize for the lengthy post.

 

For the AMD clock tool, make sure your using THIS one, someone else got that exact msg when using old version.

 

The 5870 is newer than some of that software and therefore isn't fully supported. Take GPU-Z for example, none of the sensors work. I agree with dkillone, you need to make sure you are using v0.9.26 of AMD GPU Clock Tool.

FYI, the HWInfo32 image should be reduced in size using tags and all of the image links are broken.

 

Thanks for the responses thus far.

I have gone ahead and reduced the size of some of the images (my apologies for that), but I have no idea why the links are broken (any suggestions?).

So basically, I understand that due to the newest of the card, most of these utilities are not yet compatible with it. I will go ahead and download/install the AMD GPU Tool from the link provided, and see how that goes.

Given the situation, what then is the best/most accurate way to measure GPU temps, and what should one actually be looking out for?

Many thanks.

 

On a different note and not to open another thread, can someone explain to me why are my laptop's cores "overworking" even though I don't have that twin turbo mode or whatever on? Is it normal? Just like the OP image, the cores of the images from you guys seem to be around 1900mhz but everytime I check mine, they are around 2500mhz, that green bar is "almost full" all the time. Is this good or bad? Is this a problem? I'm just curious about it; my laptop has been working great so far (knock on wood).

 

I must point out that when that shot was taken, my Power4Gear was in "Entertainment" mode, with Maximum Processor State set at 85%.

 

Thank you!
Ahh... now that makes sense to me... somewhat. Ok, so is there any difference between the Power4Gear High Performance (that's the option I leave on) and the Turbo thingy? Or are they the same and perform the same thing (put my mhz on the 2.something instead of the "default" 1.6)?

 

high performance tends to keep your clocks close to full turbo clock speed, but it never reaches it's highest point.

My i7 720QM jumps between 1.7 and 2.6 while im downloading multiple large files on maximum performance, 5-100%.

Turn on Turbo and it goes to 2.5-2.6.
Turn on Max Turbo and it goes to 2.8-2.9.

The 1.6 clock is really a reference point... your cpu will only lock into 1.6 if you are pushing it 100% with 8 threads i believe.

You can use moderate / maximum batter saving for varying levels of underclock/volt for energy savings and heat savings, depending on what you are doing. However, to get full power out of your CPU, you need to manually set Max Turbo every time.

 

I used to leave it on High Performance, Turbo enabled all the time. But I noticed the blue bar on the processor gadget I put up on the screen was always nearly "full". This kind of worried me, so I started using it in "Entertainment" mode, with the maximum processor state dialed down to 85%. I haven't noticed any decline in performance generally, or while playing any of the games I play (mostly Call of Duty). So i figured I'd just leave it there.

 

@ paperbag846: Thank you very much for the clarification! Now it makes sense why those cores had almost the "full green bars" everytime I checked. Since I got the laptop I had always left on high performance setting on the power4gear but never really used the turbo mode thingy (I have been playing ME2 and The Witcher, and both are playing so nice that I didn't think I'd need to turbo it hehehe ).

 

sorry plz delete

 

No problem!

I can tell you that many games, mostly console ports, do not require max performance to run smoothly, and its an easy way to keep the heat down.

Some games neex max performance to prevent stuttering, but I've never had occasion to try turbo yet to smooth out a game. The i7 is a beast.

By all means turbo your video rendering etc.

 

I'm having a hard time finding the Max Turbo settings on my G73JH.

Please be kind enough to point me in the right direction.

Thanks.