{"id":5987,"date":"2014-05-19T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:30:24","slug":"what-do-you-use-for-gpu-temperature-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/what-do-you-use-for-gpu-temperature-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"what do you use for GPU temperature monitoring?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After all the hell involved late Friday night in getting nVidia drivers running under Linux<\/a> (a.k.a., “Hi, I’m Running A New Kernel Now, Ask Me Why!”), I thought it’d be a good idea to get a case fan. I got the quietest 92mm fan they had at Fry’s, clocking in at 14.6db. I also picked up some hum-dampening silicon bolts for attachment.<\/p>\n

Installing it proved I was right in deciding I couldn’t possibly afford the noise of a graphics card with fans onboard. Even the whisper-quiet-as-such-things-go case fan required me to throw some sound absorption behind the box to get it back to inaudible in the recording space.<\/p>\n

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…and okay maybe I couldn’t resist grabbing a case light while I was at it. It was only $8, so why not? \ud83d\ude00 But behind the case, you can see that I’ve attached some leftover sound baffle material to the wall – it’s just a single layer, but that’s okay, since fan noise is pretty high-frequency and easy to scatter.<\/p>\n

In addition to the visible pieces, there’s another attached to the underside of the shelf that overhangs the case. It’s just out of frame above this picture. That piece catches some of the sound bounce coming out from the back which isn’t picked up by the wall pieces. The reduction is enough to hear, close up.<\/p>\n

This baffling brings the case noise back down to the same level as it had before, without the fan. It’s nice to be justified in my card choices, but I wish I’d been wrong – the GT520 chipset isn’t bad, but I’d really kind of like, oh, a 750 TI<\/a>. But… not today, not in this machine, not in this room.<\/p>\n

What do you use for GPU temperature monitoring? Given the temperatures of everything else, I’m confident I’m fine, but I wouldn’t mind monitoring the card itself for a bit. Windows or Linux is fine.<\/p>\n

Oh, and! On Internet Skyrims<\/strike> Elder Scrolls Online, I’m Starbird the Fleet, username Solarbirdy. Still in starting environment at the moment, breaking out of prison – and getting used to PC controls again after a long time being a console gamer only – but I’ll be out of that soon. Look me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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