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Geek Culture / Any good video card temperature tools out there? (ATI Radeon 9700 pro)

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Person99
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Posted: 24th May 2007 09:15
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My video card has lately decided that it was going to become a fire pit.

I play any full-screen game for about 5 minutes, and my screen disappears (As if my monitor were off, while on.). I cannot do anything, there is no cursor, there is no CTRL+ALT+DELETE.
Even with the windows blue screen of death option on "Always", nothing but black shows up.

At first, I thought someone bugged me, so I scanned with several virus and spyware scanners, and found nothing.

That was until I noticed that the side of my computer was hot by touching it.

I opened it, to see what was going on, and there were heat waves coming off of my ATI Radeon 9700 (Pro).

I went to several places to confirm that my problem was overheating, and it was successfully confirmed as a firepit.

I made sure I had the latest drivers, that my fan was working, and everything.

No luck, just a video card gone to an oil pit, came out, then jumped into a tub of hot boiling lava.


I still have a warranty on the video card though, so I can get all of my £72 back that I originally bought it for, if I can prove that it is messed up.

I want to see just how hot my video card is getting. I want some temperature gauge software that will work for my video card that will tell me either in Fahrenheit or Celsius what temperature my video card is.

Can anyone help me find one?

Again, my video card is an ATI Radeon 9700 pro.


Edit: I tried ATItool, but it comes up with a ghost startup error that cannot be found online (Probably because my video card is sitting there slashing it with a fire whip).

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 24th May 2007 15:41
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Temperature tools? A fridge may do it.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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GatorHex
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Posted: 24th May 2007 15:50 Edited at: 24th May 2007 16:01
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Clean the dust out of your heatsinks GPU and GPU it will make everything run cool and quiet. A sure sign is fans frunning noisy at full speed.

I have seen a PC set on fire due to never having it's internals cleaned!!

The fans were shooting flames out of the back like a flame thrower!

The free software I use is called SpeedFan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php but like I said if your fans are noisy it's probably time to clean those heatsinks!

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 24th May 2007 16:09
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On a more serious note, you may want to try a large (1-1.5 ft diameter) cooler on the side of the case. Only as a last resort, however.


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spooky
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Posted: 24th May 2007 17:07
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Doing some Googling finds that your card does not have a temperature sensor onboard like other Radeons and Nvidias, so there is no way to see how hot is. Maybe it is overclocking without you realising. Like already said, clean out dust from all the other fans and heatsinks, specially the cpu heatsink. I cleaned mine recently and was stunned at the amount of dust it had on it.

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Posted: 24th May 2007 17:12
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Or keep a 737 ticking over with the intake next to it.


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Person99
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Posted: 25th May 2007 04:55 Edited at: 25th May 2007 04:56
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I finally got ATITool working, my GPU was running at 85 C!

I fixed the heating problem after some annoying measures.

I first tried cleaning everything with a dust remover, I found several grey rabbits, a cat, an elephant, a bear, John F. Kennedy, that one guy from The Simpsons, a dog, and some leftover brains, but still no luck.
I tried a bunch of more random things, no luck.

But then I found the perfect combination with small fans to keep my GPU cool, my motherboard freezing, and my right arm an icicle.

I took a stool, and set it beside my desk.
I then took a high-powered small, but not too small sized metal fan, turned my tower at an angle to where the fan directly hit the GPU.
I then took a small blue high-powered fan with a larger magnet, and set it on a fireplace, pointing down from an angle down at the metal fan to give it more power.
It took me a while getting the angles right so that the blue fan made the metal fan actually shoot out cool air, but so that the blue fan's super-magnet didn't hurt my hard-drive.


But now I have a different non-computer related problem - My right arm is freezing cold because of the fans, and my left arm is hot, and that is causing me to have muscle spasms.

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Morcilla
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Posted: 25th May 2007 13:01
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Lol, I had to replace my 9700pro original fan for this one, long time ago, it blows the hot air outside the case, but occupies 2 slots:

http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=41
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planning your air flow is very important.

make sure it's sucked in at the front and pushed out at the back and tie as many cables together with plastic ties to reduce the turbulance.

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Posted: 25th May 2007 20:43
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Try the Omega Drivers for temp display when playing games. Also, when my card overheats, I take off the cover. Works fine then.

I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do. ~Hal-9000
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It didn't matter for me.

I set up my computer at an angle to where the fan blows directly to the 9700.

GatorHex, are you a mind reader? The first thing I did before turning on the fan was separate the cables to allow more airflow.

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