Accurate gpu temperature software

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nospin44

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Hello I was just curious as to what everyone uses to record their gpu temps. I recently bought a radeon 7970 and did a small overclock the other day. Now hw monitor and msi afterburner while in game are reporting temps maxing at 70-75c after playing for a few hours. But i did a benchmark with Heaven and that was reporting my gpu was hitting 90c. Now i know that is way too hot so it got me nervous about my overclock. Is heaven just wrong?
 
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They will all use the same thermal sensors to report temperature. In general you will see higher temperatures with Heaven because that is a benchmarking program that is designed to put as much load on your GPU as possible 100% of the time it is running. Whereas in games, depending on what you are playing and what is going on the GPU might not be under 100% load all the time; it might fluctuate between 100% load for a while then drop down to 50%, then back up, etc.

Bottom line: HWMonitor and MSI Afterburner should be perfectly accurate.
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aznricepuff

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They will all use the same thermal sensors to report temperature. In general you will see higher temperatures with Heaven because that is a benchmarking program that is designed to put as much load on your GPU as possible 100% of the time it is running. Whereas in games, depending on what you are playing and what is going on the GPU might not be under 100% load all the time; it might fluctuate between 100% load for a while then drop down to 50%, then back up, etc.

Bottom line: HWMonitor and MSI Afterburner should be perfectly accurate.
 
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Although I'm not familiar with Heaven's temperature gauge, it may not be wrong. Believe it or not, the 7970 at 90c isn't as bad as you'd think. High end video cards can handle high temps much better than mid range or low end video cards. If I were you, I'd look at what GPU-Z reports when you run the Heaven benchmark.

Even though 90c isn't that bad, it is a bit high for it being recently bought. If it really does go 90c+ during max load, I'd possibly consider clocking it back to stock clock. If you do nothing but game though, and keep temperatures reasonable (up to ~85c) then I doubt there's really anything to worry about.

 
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