GPU temperature monitoring software

[frogbeastegg]

Can anyone recommend a GPU temperature monitoring program? Something light, and which works with windows 7 64bit. I have a gigabyte geforce 560 ti and the nvidea tool is useless as it crashes within seconds of starting it every single time. There was supposed to be a monitoring tool included with the gigabyte support software; I'm damned if I can find it.

I'm sure my card is not overheating (big onboard fans, plus big case fans, plus big side grill vent in addition to front and rear vents) but I need to prove it isn't since that's everyone's first answer to the question "Why does my copy of Deus EX: HR crash more often than a drunk stuntman working in a 3 hour movie about car crashes?"

Thanks.

[CBR]

I use MSI Afterburner. It also allows quick adjustments to fan speed when I intend to play games http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

[CrossLOPER]

http://www.piriform.com/speccy

This will tell you everything you likely need to know about your computer. I recommend trying all the Piriform products.

[frogbeastegg]

Thanks.

That settles that. Normal ranges for my card are 76 degrees under load. I'm at 30 idle, and reach a high of 69 degrees when I play multiple massive Shogun II battles in a row with all detail maxed. I shall test Deus Ex: HR later. Since it's essentially an xbox 360 game with slightly improved graphics, it has no reason whatsoever to put more of a load on my GPU than Shogun II. If it does, then it's down to poor coding somewhere. Likewise their suggestion I increase the voltage to my GPU. No. Just no.

[CrossLOPER]

Thanks.

That settles that. Normal ranges for my card are 76 degrees under load. I'm at 30 idle, and reach a high of 69 degrees when I play multiple massive Shogun II battles in a row with all detail maxed. I shall test Deus Ex: HR later. Since it's essentially an xbox 360 game with slightly improved graphics, it has no reason whatsoever to put more of a load on my GPU than Shogun II. If it does, then it's down to poor coding somewhere. Likewise their suggestion I increase the voltage to my GPU. No. Just no.

Overclocking is great; it's the only thing keeping my 275 competitive. Obviously, you should not try it unless you really want to an have some time and patience to understand fully what it is that you are doing. Also, Shogun 2 is a total war game, and therefore the optimization was outsourced to mandrills. Deus Ex: HR was intentionally crippled in this regard so that they could have "next generation specs", even though, graphically, the game looks like a HD Half-Life 2. Apparently, the new Eidos is taking the Bethesda approach.

[frogbeastegg]

The gigabyte version of the 560 ti is overclocked out of the box. Even if that were not the case, people with much weaker cards can play the game perfectly well. My old 8800 GTS would have run the game!

This is the first time in years where I chose the PC release over the xbox one. It was much cheaper and I thought "What's the worst that could happen?" Virtually unplayable game, that's what. This is why I swapped to getting the xbox versions of all multiplatform releases in the first place.