Video Card Temps

[Xaero]

What utility is out there that I would use to measure the core temperature on my Radeon 9500-->9700 soft-mod.

Also i'm running stock cooling and is it okay to go above 1.6v on AGP? I'm just trying to get max OC out for Doom 3, i would get teh Arctic-cooling silencer but i want to wait for the 4th revision as it looks to have ram cooling which actually works.

 

[ryuji]

my friends intel board's bios reports radeon temp... so its reported to the smbus or somthing.. try motherboard monitor if u got intel board he has a ic7

rivatuner might report it

 

[Arseface]

Increasing the AGP voltage in your motherboard BIOS will not alter the vcore of the card - all it will do is mean that the card has to do more work to compensate for the differing voltage.

The vcore is regulated by the card, not the mobo BIOS.

 

[ZenOps]

Yup, mobo control of the 1.5 to 1.8 Volt AGP signalling voltage has nothing to do with overclocking the GPU at all.

It will sometimes let you get higher FSB's if you overvolt (AGP standard is 66.6 Mhz) as it is the singalling voltage. In order to overvolt the videocard GPU, you have to physically solder and modify certain parts of videocard.

 

[Xaero]

okay cool, don't think i'll be voltmodding my video card then, read about, but don't have enough soldering expertise or enough money to buy a new card in case i blow it. I'll just have to see if i can do 370+MHz with normal voltage