Monitoring Notebook Temps: nVidia & ATI, CPU, HDD - Do your temps worry you?

[TwilightVampire]

Heh heh, keep us posted then! I'm far too tired right now to try

Its 3AM here!

[Albsterama]

It unfortunate that there is no cpu tool out there to show the speed and temp by core and also the hdd temps individually. mobmeter is the only one i know that will do it and its aging fast....hopefully the guys at notebook hardware control will come up with something now that the dual cores have made it mainstream...

[Gophn]

stupid reason for not wanting to talk to me... about RivaTuner issue with missing hardware monitoring option.

Quote from Guru3D rep: "Mobile chips are not supported."

Geez. So I am tryin to get a PM thing going with one of the original programmers about this now.

In the mean time...
Chaz, TwilightVampire, or any other Sager 5320 owner:

Try to downgrade to older drivers because thats what I was noticing with mine while I was playing with it, I used newest LaptopVideo2Go drivers were experience Rivatuner not detecting my GPU.

Keep me posted, and I'll do the same.

-Gophn

[Charles P. Jefferies]

I'm using the Catalyst 6.3 Omega suite, they're not that new and I have not updated for some time because I can't overclock with any newer ones.

It sucks. But lets see what else chaz might say before I abandon even more hope

I'm going to download the older version of RivaTuner and see if that works - probably won't work, but quitting is not my game either.

[TwilightVampire]

Older version of Riva doesnt work either. I'm on the Omega 6.3's for the same reasons you are, Chaz.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

Older version of Riva doesnt work either. I'm on the Omega 6.3's for the same reasons you are, Chaz.

That's a shame. I think we can sadly conclude that the Clevo M560A/Sager NP5320 lacks a temperature sensor on the GPU.
On a side note, I believe there is a new version of ATT out there but I haven't tried/looked for it yet; the only reason I would install it is to be able to jump to a newer release of video drivers and be able to overclock. One of these days I'll give it a go when I am bored enough . .

[Gophn]

Try official Catalyst 6.5 and below drivers. (supposedly the new RivaTuner build incorporated them.)

And use the lastest RivaTuner 2.0 RC 16.

Now i want to have a 5320 in front of me, would make things much simpler to test with.

Thanks for the continuing efforts.

-Gophn

P.S. I am working with the scripting for RivaTuner now, trying to figure out the commands and soft-mods through it.

[Robgunn]

Great article Gophn.

This worked with my 5760 running a 7900GTX. Although it reports a -154C temp. I suppose I need to use the offset option?

[Gophn]

Great article Gophn.

This worked with my 5760 running a 7900GTX. Although it reports a -154C temp. I suppose I need to use the offset option?

I would offset the temp by adding 100 C degrees.

If you are at idle, you card should be similar to mine.... which is around 50-55C.

If I put my fans to max (Fn+F2), it goes down to about 45-47C.

During heavy gaming (ex. Oblivion, Ghost Recon) it goes up to 80C.. with fans on max.

Hope this helps to give you the idea of the temps,

-Gophn

[Gophn]

Whoops sorry my math wasnt good in the last post.

you want to offset the temp to get it into the positive Temp.

So since you have -154 C, you want to offset by adding 200 C...
therefore making it +46C.

46 C degrees is more like the idle temp.

I said 100 last time, sorry, didnt double check.

Hope the helps,
-Gophn