ASUS Nvidia card & Smartdoctor

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Anybody out there with an ASUS Nvidia card? I have an 8800, have
downloaded latest Smartdoctor plus the other bits said to be necessary
for SD to run, but most of the settings on SD are blanked out. Is the
8800 such a low level card that few of the functions that SD
measures/controls are available? It certainly wasn't cheap to buy.
(Installing the ASUS graphics driver, or GamerOSD, make no difference,
even though SD insists that GOSD be installed)
 
Robin said:
Anybody out there with an ASUS Nvidia card? I have an 8800, have
downloaded latest Smartdoctor plus the other bits said to be necessary
for SD to run, but most of the settings on SD are blanked out. Is the
8800 such a low level card that few of the functions that SD
measures/controls are available? It certainly wasn't cheap to buy.
(Installing the ASUS graphics driver, or GamerOSD, make no difference,
even though SD insists that GOSD be installed)
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"Long starting of ASUS Smart Doctor"
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...=9&model=EN8800+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

"Latest util and drivers for all EN8800 Series"
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...=9&model=EN8800+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

I don't think the hardware support, has been a constant over all
the generations of video cards. Perhaps at one time, an Asus
card had an additional chip added, which things like SmartDoctor
would use. But the feature set now, could very well just be
things that Nvidia put there in the first place. And other
brands may offer control software, which work just as well,
for setting overclocks, fan speed in 3D mode, or monitor temperature.

I use GPUZ, and that gives me a temperature readout for my card.
And that's all I need, because my card is too weak to perform
miracles with an overclock.

Paul
 
"Long starting of ASUS Smart Doctor"
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...=9&model=EN8800+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
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OK, I haven't noticed this long startup
"Latest util and drivers for all EN8800 Series"
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...=9&model=EN8800+Series&page=1&SLanguage=en-us
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OK, I've noted these and will install later. The SD is a later version
than that on the ASUS site!
I don't think the hardware support, has been a constant over all
the generations of video cards. Perhaps at one time, an Asus
card had an additional chip added, which things like SmartDoctor
would use. But the feature set now, could very well just be
things that Nvidia put there in the first place. And other
brands may offer control software, which work just as well,
for setting overclocks, fan speed in 3D mode, or monitor temperature.

I use GPUZ, and that gives me a temperature readout for my card.
And that's all I need, because my card is too weak to perform
miracles with an overclock.
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Thanks, Paul. SD as I have it at the moment gives me temperature but
doesn't even tell me if the fan is running.
 
Thanks, Paul. SD as I have it at the moment gives me temperature but
doesn't even tell me if the fan is running.
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Just installed latest SD. No difference.
 
Robin Bignall wrote:



You can get GPUZ here, if you want to try it out.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/

The "Sensor" tab, gives side-scrolling graphs of
hardware parameters. Including fan speed. You can't
set fan speed, only view it. This is good for monitoring,
like if you suspect your fan is failing, or there is a
problem with the cooling. My copy of GPUZ has fewer
graphs than this, so this will vary with the generation
of card. Yours might well have more graphs available than
mine does.
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About the same number of graphs, but all to do with clocks and loads. No
mention of fan. But my Smart Doctor will give an audible warning if
temperature gets to 100 C -- presumably implying fan failure. Between
the two I should be OK.
 
About the same number of graphs, but all to do with clocks and loads. No
mention of fan. But my Smart Doctor will give an audible warning if
temperature gets to 100 C -- presumably implying fan failure. Between
the two I should be OK.
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Speedfan has a conditional branch off an event, say a failed fan
indicator (also deals in voltages or temperatures). Good thing to
define that branch, if it happens, to an outside executable utility,
probably a call to shut the system. Though I first try and build for
such contingencies, and also actively monitor system health by regular
usage, another layer of failsafe software isn't a bad idea at all.
 
Speedfan has a conditional branch off an event, say a failed fan
indicator (also deals in voltages or temperatures). Good thing to
define that branch, if it happens, to an outside executable utility,
probably a call to shut the system. Though I first try and build for
such contingencies, and also actively monitor system health by regular
usage, another layer of failsafe software isn't a bad idea at all.
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That I didn't cotton onto, and I guess it's fairly new. Thanks,
Flasherly, I'm looking into how to do it right now.
 
Paul <[email protected]> said:
I can't afford to crash the computer now, so maybe I'll
try this later :-)
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Yes, it did it while I had several windows open doing different things,
some of them VPN and SSH connections to remote servers in other
countries that I was working on. Grr.

GPU-Z 0.6.4 by the way.
 
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