nVidia MonitorView shows 209 > Celsius?!

sandlotje89 · 05-16-2008, 04:23 AM

Today, my Tagan BZ series 900W PSU came (

!), which is now fully installed.

Up until now, I have not wanted to overclock because my system was heavily underpowered. After I got the PSU installed, I downloaded nTune to begin OC'ing. I am fairly cautious most of the time and like to monitor before and after temps. I OC'd my 7800GT to 504MHz (if anyone remembers what it was like to have the 7800..haha...), went to check the temp level and found that it is reading 209 Celsius -- or 408 Farenheit! Immeadiate cause for concern, except that the graph looks weird -- look at the attatchment.

Well, nix the attatchment. But I'll try to describe it -- it consists of many vertical parallel lines, and one continuous horizontal line running through the middle. I could swear that there was a trigonometric function that looks just like it -- it was a special function because it was one of a few that cannot be graphed [accurately] on a calculator. (I'm throwing this out there for anyone who may know what I'm talking about.)

The comp has only been on for like 10 minutes. I am wondering if maybe I messed up the airflow with my cabling. Any thoughts? I'm not really freaking out because my system appears 100% stable and I find it hard to believe a system could really be as high as 209 C; especially without smelling something frying.

shenry · 05-16-2008, 12:51 PM

Try a different temp monitor like GPU Z

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
It shows your temp on the second tab.

StrangleHold · 05-16-2008, 02:43 PM

Try another program to check your temps. It cant be 209c or your computer would be a lump of plastic in the floor.

MosIncredible · 05-17-2008, 01:20 PM

RivaTuner. GPU-Z also shows the wrong temp to go by when thinking about safety.

05-16-2008, 04:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
sandlotje89 Bronze Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 80	nVidia MonitorView shows 209 > Celsius?! Today, my Tagan BZ series 900W PSU came (!), which is now fully installed. Up until now, I have not wanted to overclock because my system was heavily underpowered. After I got the PSU installed, I downloaded nTune to begin OC'ing. I am fairly cautious most of the time and like to monitor before and after temps. I OC'd my 7800GT to 504MHz (if anyone remembers what it was like to have the 7800..haha...), went to check the temp level and found that it is reading 209 Celsius -- or 408 Farenheit! Immeadiate cause for concern, except that the graph looks weird -- look at the attatchment. Well, nix the attatchment. But I'll try to describe it -- it consists of many vertical parallel lines, and one continuous horizontal line running through the middle. I could swear that there was a trigonometric function that looks just like it -- it was a special function because it was one of a few that cannot be graphed [accurately] on a calculator. (I'm throwing this out there for anyone who may know what I'm talking about.) The comp has only been on for like 10 minutes. I am wondering if maybe I messed up the airflow with my cabling. Any thoughts? I'm not really freaking out because my system appears 100% stable and I find it hard to believe a system could really be as high as 209 C; especially without smelling something frying. __________________ Intel Pentium D 820 2x250GB RAID0 64K MSI P6N Diamond BFG 7800GT OC 2GB RAM (PNY 1x1GB Stock 2x512) 900W PSU

05-16-2008, 02:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In a realm of unknown Wonders Posts: 7,542	Try another program to check your temps. It cant be 209c or your computer would be a lump of plastic in the floor. __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600-3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066-944mhz. 4gbs. PNY 8800GT/VD964 Cooler W/D Sata 3.0 500gb RE2 Humans are curious creatures and by nature insane. Lock us all in a room together and within hours we're dividing into groups, creating Gods and plotting on how to kill one another.

05-17-2008, 01:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
MosIncredible Silver Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 194	RivaTuner. GPU-Z also shows the wrong temp to go by when thinking about safety. __________________ CPU: Q6600 @ 3.4GHz [425x8] 1.248v load \| E8400 HSF: Zalman 9700 (replacing soon) MB: DFI DK P35-T2RS GPU: XFX 8800GTS (G92) 512MB @ 800/1970/1100 RAM: 2GB OCZ Reaper (PC2 6400) 850 4-4-4-12 HDD: WD 500GB 16MB Case: Antec 900 PSU: OCZ 700W Monitor: LG 22" L226WTQ 3DMark06 Score: 16137 (XP) with above clocks

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