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Tonci Nemes October 10th 04 11:13 AM

Nvidia cards and thermal management?
 
Hi,

Do any Nvidia cards (especially the GeForce series) have on-die thermal
sensor diodes for core temperature measurement? I have had two cards fail
because of faulty fans. Seeing how the GPU cooler fans, by default, don't
incorporate any kind of RPM monitoring (and removing heatsink and/or fan in
most cases voids warranty), I was wondering if Nvidia has any provisions for
on-die thermal monitoring and management of the GPU? I don't think AGP port
incorporates separate pins to accomodate this feature in a way that Intel's
Slot1 does, so any such monitoring would be left to the graphics card
driver.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Tonci



Vigil October 10th 04 06:50 PM

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:13:38 +0200, Tonci Nemes wrote:

Do any Nvidia cards (especially the GeForce series) have on-die thermal
sensor diodes for core temperature measurement?


The 6800GT does.

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tq96 October 11th 04 12:37 AM

Do any Nvidia cards (especially the GeForce series) have on-die thermal
sensor diodes for core temperature measurement?


The 6800GT does.


Is that it? I would hope that all current and future cards incorporate
this feature. It gives great piece of mind to know that if the fan fails,
the hardware will not fry itself.

Vigil October 11th 04 11:31 PM

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:37:42 +0000, tq96 wrote:

Do any Nvidia cards (especially the GeForce series) have on-die thermal
sensor diodes for core temperature measurement?


The 6800GT does.


Is that it?


I doubt it.

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YanquiDawg October 13th 04 10:11 PM

So does the 5900. In fact temp monitorin goes on constantly and the fan speed
increases or decreases according to temp.

Do any Nvidia cards (especially the GeForce series) have on-die thermal
sensor diodes for core temperature measurement?

The 6800GT does.





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