On Nov 23, 8:04 pm, "~misfit~" <misfit6...@yahoot.com.au> wrote:
> Somewhere on teh interweb kony typed:
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> > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:58:16 -0800 (PST),
> > Koolsk8boar...@excite.com wrote:
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> >>>>> My cpu runs at 34 C idle, and about 40 when gaming. It is surely
> >>>>> not an overheating issue, and I do not have speedstep or anything
> >>>>> of the likes turned on in the BIOS. I will have stuttering type
> >>>>> lag, causing the game to freeze for a second basically, and it
> >>>>> happens often. My fps is also being cut by this. By monitoring
> >>>>> my CPU with rightmark, I have noticed that both cores of the cpu
> >>>>> are throttling a bit, basically whenever a pause occurs. It
> >>>>> throttles from 2.4 to maybe
> >>>>> 2.2, but its enough to cause the lag. Sometimes it will spike as
> >>>>> low as 1400 and return right back to normal.
>
> >> Hmm, forget what I said 
That is actually my video card, and thats
> >> a pretty normal temp for this card. I actually can't exactly see a
> >> temp that would be the gap temp. The only other temp thats somewhat
> >> high is the one labeled as Temp 1, part of the ISA bus, at 41 C.
> >> Other then that, the only thing that strikes me as odd is the Vcore
> >> voltages. I noticed Vcore 1 and Vcore 2, with vcore 1 having a
> >> 1.22V, and vcore 2 having 1.90V. Just curious why the 2nd one is so
> >> much higher, as I don't know what it pertains to. Just from looking
> >> at this, it really doesn't seem like an overheating problem, even
> >> tho the cpu is throttling :[
>
> > 41C or even 50-something C is not high enough to cause a
> > problem. However, you need to know your video card temp
> > while gaming, it is not relevant to gaming freezes to know
> > the video card temp when not gaming as the gaming 3D mode
> > switch can cause a higher GPU voltage to be set, as well as
> > the GPU doing more work to produce more heat.
>
> > A video card may cause a freeze momentarily due to
> > instability, whether that instability be caused by
> > overheating, poor power to it, video card degradation (like
> > bad capacitors on it). If the processor were getting too
> > hot and it throttled down to a lower speed, the game would
> > then run much slower, instead of freezing.
>
> > If it freezes instead of just running slower, it is far more
> > likely a video card issue, not CPU.
>
> Sk8, on Speedfan's "Chart" tab, set it to monitor "core". Do a bit of
> hard-out gaming then exit to Windows and see what the GPU temp went up to.
> You'll have to be quick as it will only retain the last minute or two of
> temps. You can also do this with the CPU core temps.
>
> Luck,
> --
> Shaun.
Hi, misfit, thanks for that. I usually run the temp monitor provided
by Nvidia, and when gaming it never exceeds 61 C. When idle, it is
around 55 C. Seems a bit on the high end, but from experience the GPU
normally tends to run pretty hot. Like I previously said, this has
not been an issue before, so I am not sure why it would be now.