CPU and GPU throttle
30 May 2023 10:42:40 UTC
Topic 229602
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Hi there,
It is getting hot in my area and for obvious reasons my computer needs heat throttling. I wonder if there is a way to configure a temperature limit and throttle GPU usage similar to the CPU settings?
Thanks.
Snowball101 wrote:Hi
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For the cpu look for a program call Tthrottle one place to get it is here:
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/CPU-Tweak/TThrottle.shtml
For the gpu you can try MSIAfterburner which you can get here:
https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards?xs=1
It works on both Nvidia and AMD brands of graphics cards but doesn't give full control on every model
TThrottle can handle also GPU
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TThrottle can handle also GPU temperature control if you want.
Hi there, I can confirm
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Hi there,
I can confirm that afterburner does not work on my GPU (radeon 540) after trying to make it work through the app settings.
TThrottle does not recognise the GPU at all...
Any suggestions please?
Snowball101 wrote:Any
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Stop running all CPU tasks and tasks using the Intel iGPU as this will be creating a lot of heat.
If the Radeon 540 driver does its job correctly, it may well reduce the clock speed of the GPU to prevent overheating. You will be able to tell if throttling occurs as you will notice a sudden increase in crunch time of GPU tasks if it occurs. Unloading the CPU may well give you enough cooling anyway.
Cheers,
Gary.
Thanks for your advice.
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Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately here in Taiwan it will get very hot in the summer (of course unless a typhoon arrives) so simply relying on the drivers is not something that I can be sure of. I guess BOINC authors can figure out a way to regulate the GPU usage similar to CPU usage settings (if I understand correctly, a GPU is a special CPU) so that I would not worry so much when crunching.
If the temperature gets too hot I unfortunately will have to halt computing before my computer bursts into flames (Taiwan sort of has a drought and I do not want to add trouble)