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Best GPU Temp Program?

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I have a 6850 and would like to monitor my temperature, any advice on which temperature program I should go with?
 
MSI Afterburner allows overclocking, voltage control, temperature monitoring, an in-game overlay for FPS/clock speeds/voltage/VRAM usage, screenshot taking, etc. It's probably the best all-around GPU tool.
 
Afterburner for most things, GPUZ/hwmonitor for VRM temps.
 
Rizen said:
MSI Afterburner allows overclocking, voltage control, temperature monitoring, an in-game overlay for FPS/clock speeds/voltage/VRAM usage, screenshot taking, etc. It's probably the best all-around GPU tool.
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I've never been able to tweak my MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II voltages or get the OC past 840/1325 with MSI AfterBurner, am I doing something wrong or is it locked down? I always assumed it was locked down so I never looked into it any more.

Just wondering though as now I'm bored....lol.

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MasonD said:
I've never been able to tweak my MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II voltages or get the OC past 840/1325 with MSI AfterBurner, am I doing something wrong or is it locked down? I always assumed it was locked down so I never looked into it any more.

Just wondering though as now I'm bored....lol.

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I would expect the MSI branded card to allow GPUVCore adjustment, but it is blank on that screenshot. That version is UTD for that card.

What you may need to do is go into settings and check the box that allows voltage adjustment.
 
Depends on how you are gonna use the data, but Aida64 does everything....
 
Afterburner is great & having a chart/bar graph to look at after playing a game etc is useful & you can set a custom fan profile to your liking.
 
I think there is an enable voltage control in the settings for afterburner. May want to check that.
 
I was wondering about the same thing about temp apps.. So, MSI afterburner is not exclusively for MSI cards?
I have a sapphire 6970, and I have been using CCC for monitoring my temp and clock speed. Not confident enough to really start tweaking yet.. didn't want to burnt my first built ahaha.
 
it's for all cards, it's powered by Guru3D Rivatuner engine and being developed by MSI and Guru3D
 
does afterburner play nice with CCC or is it reccomended to just download the AMD drivers without CCC instead?
 
Jorona said:
http://forums.overclockersclub.com/index.php?showtopic=182403&view=findpost&p=1891495

You have to enable unofficial overclocking in the CFG file for afterburner.
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I tried these instructions twice and both times my system becomes unstable (explorer crashing, constant scan lines on screen, system hanging/crashing, etc). I followed it exactly too! However as soon as I change/save the CFG file in AfterBurner it starts happening right away (not even setting any OC). Disabling "Enable ulps" to "0" in the ATI 12.9 beta drivers did nothing as it seems to be something with AfterBurner on my system itself. Not sure what it is but this definitely doesn't work on my computer.

Thanks anyway though.

Note: It did unlock the ability to OC my cards further but is useless as my system became 100% unstable :(.
 
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I rand into these issues the past 2 weeks with Afterburner (which I love)

Basically you can unlock your OC ability when you modify the config file - great! My problem was it took away my ability to control the core clock totally.

Turns out it's a drive problem - there are two dll files that AMD removed from the last driver release or two that cause this. I'm at work right now and can't find the link, but do some googling for "Afterburner/overlock/driver issue" or something to that effect.

Once I dropped the two files into my Afterburner directory everything was acting 100% proper. Meaning I could OC to 1200Mhz, control my voltages, fans, anything and not have any problem.
 
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Turns out it's a driver problem - there are two dll files that AMD removed from the last driver release or two that cause this. I'm at work right now and can't find the link, but do some googling for "Afterburner/overlock/driver issue" or something to that effect.

Once I dropped the two files into my Afterburner directory everything was acting 100% proper. Meaning I could OC to 1200Mhz, control my voltages, fans, anything and not have any problem.
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I read that too, I just couldn't find the place to download the dll's though (dead links) but I think I got them now and trying it with them as well.

Just to clarify, you did the registry edit too right?
 
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Update: Used the two dll's and it still does it. Tried it with and without editing the ATI registry settings (with restarts) and both made no difference. Here's a video of what I get as soon as change anything from their default settings (Without OC'ing).

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The funny part is it went away once in game for almost the whole game but then explorer.exe crashed - game froze -system blue screened...lol. Oh well, looks like my cards are BIOS locked or something retarded. :(
 
Try updating to .net 4.5. its a full replacement for 4.0, and supposedly had bug fixes.
 
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The Mac said:
Try updating to .net 4.5. its a full replacement for 4.0, and supposedly had bug fixes.
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Just tried this too, still same thing. As a last resort I tried the 12.8 ATI drivers (was using 12.9 Betas) and same thing. I give up, my cards have to be BIOS locked or something. This isn't worth it....lol.
 
Or possibly Asus Gpu Tweak: Utility program has a Range Enhancement check box that might work too for the limits
 
Just for monitoring purposes GPU-Z is great, enable the log future and you'll get very detailed stats about the way your GPU runs.

If I'm not mistaken GPU-Z will show more GPU temps of different stuff in your GPU (if your GPU supports that), for example I had an MSI 6970 that had excellent main temp as shown in Afterburner, but GPU-Z showed me that even though my main temp was in the 50s, one part of the GPU die was reaching 100+ degrees which wasn't normal at all, turned out the factory messed up applying the TIM properly.

Use MSI Afterburner if you want to tweak and create custom fan profiles.
 
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