[mythtv-users] Do GeForce GT220s run hot? Was rebooting my system on anything above VDAPUA slim.

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 08:42:35 UTC 2010


On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabe Rubin" <gaberubin at gmail.com>
> > To: "Myth User" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:19 AM
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Do GeForce GT220s run hot? Was rebooting my
> system
> > on anything above VDAPUA slim.
> >>
> >> I can't find the temperature of the
> >
> > GPU because NVClock does not support this card.
> >
> > Try under the NVIDIA settings config, "Thermal Settings"
>  (nvidia-settings)
> >
> > Yes they (that is my older VDPAU card) run hot, 60-65 deg typ for me.
>  I'd
> > increase cooling if it was getting above 70, others may prefer
> different...
>
> How do you determine the temperature of the card?


DISPLAY=:0 nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp|grep Attribute

> I am pretty sure it

> was running hot enough to cause the computer to reboot, but I kept
> running sensors to see if the MB temp was getting high and it never
> really got beyond 50C.  Do I need to do that in nvidia-settings?  Is
> there a config file I can adjust from the command line instead?  I
> have the box hooked to a tv so can't really run gui programs well with
> it (aside from myth).
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