Journal nizo's Journal: Computer temperatures and maya under Linux 13
I am very pleased that maya seems to now be working perfectly under the latest Ubuntu; sweet!
I decided to start monitoring temperatures, and noticed that the GPU is hovering around 127F when the machine is idle, disk is currently at 79F, core hovers around 70 (it is pretty chilly in the room right now, so that helps).
However, I have seen the disk go up to 100F, which is kind of disturbing, but seems to be within the disk spec. And right now the GPU is at 135F (exercising it with maya), but I think that is reasonable. Oh and the GPU was much lower before I turned on the 3d acceleration (not surprising either
Does anyone else have temperature specs they are willing to share, or thoughts on these temperatures? I have never really watched them closely before, so maybe ignorance is bliss....
I had to convert that to sane units.... (Score:1)
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Yeah, I should start using Celsius, but no one here would know what non Fahrenheit temperatures mean :-|
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Oh and by here I mean where I live :-D
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I don't know how many more resopurces I'd dump into a Maya. I just heard online that according to their calendar their world is going to stop Q4 '12.
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Hopefully the Blenderites will kill the Mayans, because I am tired of dealing with those ill tempered bums.
Speaking of Maya, the latest student version doesn't come with a linux version. I am...... exceedingly unhappy about this. But I am pretty happy with my current version, though it will rapidly fall out of date.
Daaaahhh!!! (Score:1)
I remember the first time I noticed one of my disks running so hot it almost burned me (a brand new 1 terabyte drive!)-- it really spooked me, considering it wasn't getting the best air circulation given the crappy case design. I used to have disks fail on me on occasion, after about 4-5 years of very _gentle_ use. These days I have HDs running full-tilt upwards of 16-20 hours a day, on multi-processor CPUs running my disks to their limits.
The temperatures you're quoting are within spec, but always take o
I measure temps in millibars of mercury at s.l. (Score:1)
I measure temperature by millibars of mercury raised at sea level.
Why, do you have something more accurate?
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If it burns my finger it is hot, otherwise it is cold.
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I have a robot finger.
Do we not feel pain when it melts at 2200 F?
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ANDROID finger dude, android....
Keep watching (Score:2)
You're likely to discover that graphics card problems are uncovered by heat stress. The best thing to do is to ensure there are adequate fans and air movement over the video cards, and keep the cards from getting stressed in the first place.
I posted what I do for cooling in Tom's journal a month ago on this. Basically, I consider airflow all the way through the box from front to back, and bottom to top. What I really mean is "don't have all your fans blowing in". I try to balance the fans blowing int
How do you measure GPU temps? (Score:2)
I have external thermometers attached to a fan controller that display the temperature where they are placed. I have set the sensors in the heat sinks of the GPUs. The primary graphics card is at 125F, and the SLI card is 100F (I'm just running the web browser at the moment, no 3D graphics or rendering going on.
How are you physically measuring temps? Do you get reports from the video card device drivers? External thermometers, like me?
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I have one physical thermometer that measures case temperature (probably isn't placed in the best spot, but at least it gives me an idea) plus various onboard sensors labeled gpu/disk/cpu. Of course aside from the disk sensors I don't even know where the other ones are (I assume they are really on the their cooling fans).