How to monitor the temperature of GPU

[Rapptor]

Hello Folks,

Could any of you tell me how I could monitor the Temperature of my GPU
as I intend in clocking it.

Thank you

[Pitch]

Which GPU is it? Many older cards don't have onboard temperature monitors.

[MUff1N]

Hey Rapptor, Welcome to the AOA forums!

This is very true, unless you have a newer graphics card there won't be a sensor to tell you the GPU temps!
What kind of card is it? Model, make Please!

[cloasters]

A laser thermometer to the back side of the GPU(the solder trace side of the Vidcard) might work pretty well.

[Rapptor]

Thanks folks,

My GPU is an Nvidia FX 5500 128MB


" Have any of you over clocked it, or could you direct me to a place where I could find info on clocking it"

[cloasters]

Bumpity bumpity bump, all y'all.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by Rapptor

Thanks folks,

My GPU is an Nvidia FX 5500 128MB

" Have any of you over clocked it, or could you direct me to a place where I could find info on clocking it"

About monitoring the temps...
A quick look on Google brought this up...looks like a no go unless you put a HW sensor on it. This would probably cost more than the card.
The other alternative is to just put a 80mm fan on it pulling cool air from the front of the case to help with cooling of the card having it blowing directly on it.
I just used Velcro and stuck in on the bottom of the case pointing at the card.
That's what I did with my old Geforce4 MX440 & ATi 9550 cards I used before that didn't have any fan on them but just a heatsink.
Neither of them ever died and I was able to get about 10-20 FPS more in my games. As I said, don't expect too much from these old cards OCing them.

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I have a Geforce FX 5500 & I wanted to monitor the gpu's temps without the fan to see if I was going to melt it, but I can't find any programs to monitor the temps. Everything I've used (ATItool, Rivatuner, Ntune) fails to bring up any sort of gpu temp at all.

Suggestions?

Reply:
FX5500 does not have a built in temp sensor, your best shot would be to get a "hardware" temp sensor to measure your GPU temp.

So with that said there's the basics on overclocking any graphics card.
For this card I'd see if ATiTooL will see it. If so then you'll be able to overclock it too using this.
Don't expect too much though out of these old GPU's and Memory chips though...

For controling the fan speeds, see if RivaTuner will do this as ATiTooL is mainly used for ATi cards and that's why it can control the fan speeds on them too.
You can Download that here at AOA---> RivaTuner 2.06

ATiTooL
Use Version 0.26
You can download that here---> techPowerUp! :: Download ATITool 0.26

1. Download and install ATiTool v.026

2. Now comes the fun part, overclocking your card! Leave your default settings as they are for this part. First click the find Max Core and let it run for at least ½ hour or until it hits the Max Core Frequency that it can run at. You’ll know where that is when you start getting artifacts showing up on your 3D Preview screen or it Freezes.
Once you’ve found your Max Core frequency then reduce it by -10 Mhz. That should be your stable max operating speed.

3. Next comes your memory. Do the exact same thing as you did with finding the max core frequencies.
Once artifacts start showing then reduce the memory frequency by -10 and that should be you max memory settings.
Now none of this is written in stone as far as I’m concerned because of variables and if you have any artifacts showing up while playing a game then reduce both the core and memory by an additional -5 Mhz or until the artifacts stop showing.

Another cool feature that this puppy has is creating Hotkey profiles that can be executed at anytime during a game!
I've got 4 different profiles setup for separate clocking speeds, and when I'm done playing a game I can just hit the Hotkeys I got setup for default to take the overclocking off and save card life while just browsing the Internet of just simple computer tasks...EnJoy!