Want to see a Crazy GPU temp?

RainMotorsports

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Im out of town at the moment brought the laptop with me. So when PlayClaw Hardcore goes free for the day I figured it would be worth trying on the laptop.

I only have 2 games installed that work well on here. CoD MW2 and Need for Speed World, well NFS servers were down so CoD it is.

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I forgot to check to record my sound card, oops.

94C bitches! This laptop has 2 heat pipes one for the CPU one for the GPU but its a 15 inch and single fan. The setup has the GPU cooled by the air that has already cooled the CPU. Out of the box this 9800M GS ran in the low 80's in this. Me changing the low power P8400 cpu out for a higher wattage T9600 and overclocking it to 3.3 Ghz didn't help the GPU temps. Even worse I went beyond just flashing the 9800M GTS bios providing a slight bump in clock speeds. The hardware is basically the same as the 9600 GT desktop card and well I now run those clock speeds and it takes a bit of voltage to do so.

3 years in the 90's desktop guys would shit their pants.
 
agriff805 said:
WOW... your GPU is going to melt! haha
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Meh The throttle down temp on this card is 105C, hit it once actually after a repaste when I forgot to plug the fan in. The real problem is at those high temps is electrons going where they dont belong, shorting out. Even if the transistors and pathways are able to stand the heat when a short occurs, your screwed.

The GTX 260M was available in this chassis as the G51, those things exceeded 105C and melted themselves all the time.
 
Your the guy i need to talk to if i want to overclock my pc haha :D
 
w@flz said:
Your the guy i need to talk to if i want to overclock my pc haha :D
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People say that I mean I did overclock my router:
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LOL anyways I mean I can help you out a little I have overclocked just about everything I have ever owned. But it doesn't make me an expert and it wont help you troubleshoot your way to the highest overclocks possible. That takes the guy behind the machine.
 
I know nothing about doing it safely :(, Got a decent proc and card , id love to crank things up.
 
I also have an overclocked router lmfao... but not with a custom fan mod xD .

Anyway, you should hook up a kettle to your heatsink and make yourself some tea while playing COD - GTX 480 style.
 
HeatSurge said:
I also have an overclocked router lmfao... but not with a custom fan mod xD .

Anyway, you should hook up a kettle to your heatsink and make yourself some tea while playing COD - GTX 480 style.
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LOL yeah well the RT-N16's were known for overheating I was putting a hard drive inside of it as well so I figured some cooling was in order.
 
I have heard if you are new to the "overclocking" procss, that maybe I should try teh GPU before the Processors...
 
Snakebabies said:
I have heard if you are new to the "overclocking" procss, that maybe I should try teh GPU before the Processors...
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Ewww lol. Maybe only because you can change clocks on most cards at the flip of a switch and the voltage control is pretty limited. But stability testing a GPU is a pain in the ass.
 
haha..still over my head most of the shit! Maybe one day ill go to school to better gain some info into the "modern age"!
 
Snakebabies said:
haha..still over my head most of the shit! Maybe one day ill go to school to better gain some info into the "modern age"!
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Well one of the traditional ways of testing graphics card overclocks is just invalid which is why I say its so hard. You used to use burn in tests in the style of say FurMark or MSI's Kombuster to test stability. These things would pound the shader units and create temps and consume power on a level you would never see in a game.

Problem with all of those tests is they don't touch parts of the card used in DX10 and 11 such as the tessellation units used for geometry in DX11. So you have a DX9 stable environment and then you jump into BF3 and your shit keeps crashing. It takes a long time to get into a game in most of these DX11 games so start game, crash, lower clock or up voltage, start game, crash.... it takes so long to get in the game and all of that time waiting just makes finding the right voltage or the highest clock for that voltage a pain in the fucking ass.

I find Unique's Heaven DX11 bench the quickest thing to test with as it does make use of most of the card and it can hit pretty hard if you dial up the settings. But it starts alot fast than a game.
 
ive been fucking around with Radeon's Catalyst Control Center to tweak my GPU, got up to like 92 C, but then upped the fan and all was gravy...I dont know too much about what im doing, so i dropped my settings a few notches til i research some shit before i fuck something up that i cant fix myself.
 
Snakebabies said:
ive been fucking around with Radeon's Catalyst Control Center to tweak my GPU, got up to like 92 C, but then upped the fan and all was gravy...I dont know too much about what im doing, so i dropped my settings a few notches til i research some shit before i fuck something up that i cant fix myself.
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I think by default voltage control is off on that right? If so just keep the temps as low as you can and you will be good. 92C that shit aint going to last the year. Get it down to 70 might last 3 years.
 
yea...havent seen away to tweak voltage....the second i tweaked fan, GPU temp dropped 20 degrees though..Im gunna build a new machine when i get back though, well at least uppgrayde
 
Off the Rails said:
Maybe I'm being thick but what's the benefit of an overclocked router?
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If your running QoS throttling it can increase latency among other things so the faster the CPU can get work done the less delay and the more crap you can pile onto it.

That CPU I believe was 400 something MHz MIPS with 128mb of ram. Fairly awesome for a consumer router. Out of the box had features some of you knuckle heads might like such as downloading torrents while your PC is off.

I was running a USB build of tomato on it though.
 
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