GPU temperature monitoring software

**frogbeastegg** · 09-06-2011, 13:27

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** · 09-06-2011, 17:37

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 09-06-2011, 19:01

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.

**Beskar** · 09-06-2011, 20:44

What is a good temperature, Is 60-70 for the CPU healthy?

My GPU is around 40-50.

(CPU is 50 idle, GPU is 30 idle)

**CrossLOPER** · 09-06-2011, 22:40

Originally Posted by 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.

Generally, I now go for console releases, though I do so to avoid the DRM not because of fear of performance issues. Lemur is right, it could be a driver issue.

Originally Posted by Beskar

What is a good temperature, Is 60-70 for the CPU healthy?

My GPU is around 40-50.

(CPU is 50 idle, GPU is 30 idle)

Your CPU temp is almost twice what it should be. What do yo have? Are you running Vista on a laptop or something?

**Beskar** · 09-07-2011, 16:04

Originally Posted by CrossLOPER

Your CPU temp is almost twice what it should be. What do yo have? Are you running Vista on a laptop or something?

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Windows 7 in a Box not a laptop.

Though the CPU is actually 40-47 idle
Cores 1 and 2 are 47 while 3 and 4 are 40

**CrossLOPER** · 09-07-2011, 16:19

I can't think of any reason why a CPU would run over 60C, even on a full load. You may want to check if the heatsink is attacked and if the fan is actually spinning. You may want to consider reapplying the paste, but it is unlikely.

**Lemur** · 09-06-2011, 22:31

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

Virtually unplayable game, that's what. This is why I swapped to getting the xbox versions of all multiplatform releases in the first place.

Hmm, I'm running Deus Ex on an aging Core2Duo with a Radeon 4870, which is what? Three years old? And DE:HR is playing fine.

Maybe you're experiencing a specific driver issue? A video setting? Lots of possibilities. It's not taxing my old card.

**frogbeastegg** · 09-07-2011, 21:58

Originally Posted by Lemur

Maybe you're experiencing a specific driver issue? A video setting? Lots of possibilities. It's not taxing my old card.

I've tried different drivers, and changed every setting which can be changed. I've tried everything. No joy. It crashes constantly, and randomly.

I think the game has a problem with the geforce 500 series of cards. If you check the tech forums many of the people reporting crashes have a card from that family. The suggested fixes are outright stupid. Increase the voltage to your video card, underclock your video card if overclocking didn't fix it, or if that didn't work create a new windows account and play the game using that, and if it's still crashing after all of that you should use directx9 instead of directx11 even though that turns the game into a jerky slideshow which still crashes all the time. No thanks! The only sane suggestion I have seen is that the game was causing people's GPUs to overheat. I have shelved the game, awaiting a patch.