[gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

[gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

[Alexander Kapshuk]

I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what
temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be
safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported by
the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C.

Here's some info about my current set-up that might be helpful.

lspci -v|grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400
GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

uname -a
Linux box1 3.10.17-gentoo #2 SMP Fri Dec 20 23:03:32 EET 2013 i686
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

equery -q l '*nvidia*'
media-video/nvidia-settings-304.60
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-331.20

equery -q l '*sensors*'
sys-apps/lm_sensors-3.3.3-r3
xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin-1.2.5

equery -q l '*hddtemp*'
app-admin/hddtemp-0.3_beta15-r7

rc-update show|egrep 'lm_sensors|acpid|hddtemp'
                acpid |      default                
              hddtemp |      default                
           lm_sensors |      default   

pwd
/usr/src/linux

grep '^[^#].*ACPI' .config
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_DOCK=y
CONFIG_ACPI_I2C=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER=y
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y
CONFIG_PNPACPI=y
CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_DMA_ACPI=y

Any input would be appreciated.

[gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

[masterprometheus]

Alexander Kapshuk wrote:

> I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what
> temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to 
be
> safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported 
by
> the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C.

That's ok for that GPU. 

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On 12/21/2013 10:45 PM, masterprometheus wrote:
> Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>
>> I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what
>> temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to 
> be
>> safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported 
> by
>> the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C.
> That's ok for that GPU. 
>
>
>
Understood. Thanks.

On my laptop I have:

lspci|grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G98M [GeForce G
103M] (rev a1)

And it's running at:
nvidia-smi -a|awk '/Temperature/,/.*Gpu/'
    Temperature
        Gpu                         : 46 C

So, I thought I'd ask.

So, the temperature readings must be GPU model dependent, are they?

Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: nvidia GeForce 8400 GS temperature readings

[Daniel Frey]

On 12/21/2013 05:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what
> temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be
> safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported by
> the XFCE sensors plugin are 73 degrees C.
> 
> Here's some info about my current set-up that might be helpful.
> 
> lspci -v|grep -i vga
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400
> GS] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 

Those cards should be OK up to the mid-high 90s C in temperature. It
also depends if the card is passively cooled or not. I had a passively
cooled one of those cards and it ran in the high 80s to high 90s all the
time. I remember reading way back when the card actually does some
throttling between 110-120C. Another thing to note is that your model
cards typically didn't have a very broad cooling solution, it only has
fan on and fan off states.

I wound up strapping a 80mm fan to my passively cooled card to cool it a
little more. Yours is running quite a bit cooler than mine though.

Dan