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| Thread ID: 80016 | 2007-06-08 20:46:00 | is my graphics card over heating? | lukycharms (12388) | Press F1 |
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| 557368 | 2007-06-08 20:46:00 | I have a geforce Go 7800 GTX graphics card which does not seem to have problems running games such as BF2142, medieval total war, or other pretty decent graphics games for a while, but after just 10 or 20 minutes my laptop will start to feel really hot right where the graphics card is and then all of a sudden there will be a DRASTIC frame rate drop and everything just gets extremely choppy. I can minimize the program and wait a few a minutes, then bring it back up and the graphics will go back to normal for a little while but then just 5 or 10 minutes later it will get extremely choppy again. Could this be my graphics card over heating or could this be another problem? | lukycharms (12388) | ||
| 557369 | 2007-06-08 20:59:00 | Welcome to PF1 :) Yes, it sounds like it is overheating, a GFX card is designed to reduce its speed to cool down (this is the drop in FPS you see) Have a look in the nVidia If you get the nVidia control panel click view, use classic nVidia contorl panel open the classic control panel and look under temperature settings and note what the idle temp is fire up a game (leave the CP open) till you get the drop in FPS and minimise the game and look at the temp... what is it? Also tick the "notify me when the GPU core temperature exceeds threshold" |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557370 | 2007-06-08 21:12:00 | thanks for the welcome :) and wow thank you so much for the help, iv been asking this question all over the place and no one seemed to know. thank you SO much | lukycharms (12388) | ||
| 557371 | 2007-06-08 21:33:00 | Or the entire laptop overheating. What do you have it sitting on? Plenty of space under for the vents to get enough air? Not right next to a heater? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 557372 | 2007-06-10 01:25:00 | I have plenty of air running under it and the rest of the laptop seems relatively cool so I don't think that is the problem. I can't seem to find the nvidia control panel though. The only nvidia thing I can find is the nvidia nview desktop manager. Where can I find it? | lukycharms (12388) | ||
| 557373 | 2007-06-10 01:29:00 | I believe temperature monitoring can be found in the branches of nView desktop manager. ALso I think it depends on the version driver you've got. Just look around in the nView desktop manager. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 557374 | 2007-06-10 02:08:00 | well I didn't find anything in the desktop manager but I found the control panel I believe, It has different sections such as digital flat panel settings, performance and qaulity settings, color correction, video overlay settings, tools, powermizer, nvrotate, and screen resolution and refresh rates but I still cant seem to find anything about a temperature. | lukycharms (12388) | ||
| 557375 | 2007-06-10 02:18:00 | nVidia control panel click view, use classic nVidia contorl panel open the classic control panel and look under temperature settings and note what the idle temp is fire up a game (leave the CP open) till you get the drop in FPS and minimise the game and look at the temp... what is it? Also tick the "notify me when the GPU core temperature exceeds threshold" Read that, that tells you how to see the temperature... and yes, you have found the Cp |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557376 | 2007-06-10 02:33:00 | haha I'm sorry I cant seem to find the things you mentioned there. I dont see a classic control pannel or a view option on the control pannel im on. | lukycharms (12388) | ||
| 557377 | 2007-06-10 04:59:00 | Can you take a screenshot of the CP that you seen and upload it here (www.imagef1.net.nz) and I will see if it is the right one | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
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