#GPU Thermal monitor

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noble aspen
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Is there, by any chance, a good monitor program for GPU temps that anyone could recommend me

shadow wadi
noble aspen
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Nvidia

shadow wadi
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I know nvidia has a command line tool that gives some info, you’ll need to use awk if you want just the temp/usage though

noble aspen
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Awk?

shadow wadi
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.aw awk

vast palmBOT
smoky elbow
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what is the use case here?

noble aspen
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Well, to explain, I have a 3060 in an ITX case and the tiny gap between the GPU and the case meant I had to use a really slim profile fan that was hideously noisy, so i've removed the fan and I want to see what the temps are like whilst doing renders

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Blender renders

shadow wadi
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Oh

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In that case try system-monitoring-center (may be centre) on the aur

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Basically windows task manager for linux, I’m pretty sure that work

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Otherwise there’s the nvidia command line thing but that’s not realtime (just shows data from the moment you ran the command)

noble aspen
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That isn't a problem I will say, I use the sensors thing for CPU temps and that works fine

shadow wadi
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Yeah, problem is you can’t do that with gpus

noble aspen
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This seems to work well, it's telling me the temps

shadow wadi
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At least not nvidia gpus

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The command to show current gpu status is nvidia-smi

noble aspen
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Ok, so, system-monitoring-center is actual perfection

shadow wadi
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You can’t get gou temps directly out of a file handle like you would for cpu, you basically need to use nvidia-smi or something that uses it (afaik st lease)

noble aspen
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And it's telling me GPU temp as well as all the CPU sensors and that

shadow wadi
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I like it too, just wish it weren’t written in python but that’s just personal preference

noble aspen
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Not that this is the bit you're particularly interested in I imagine, but it was telling me that, even without a direct feed fan, the GPU was struggling to go above, like, 70

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I'm going to make it do a bigtime 30-odd minute render next, though, properly stress it\

shadow wadi
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I mean it is a 3060 so it shouldn’t put out that much heat

noble aspen
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My blender renders rarely go above 10 minutes so if it can deal with a 30 minute render alright, i'm basically golden

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It may sound feeble but the noise of the fan was actively making my life less good, hah

shadow wadi
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I had one render that pushed basically all my system components to 100%, cpu, ram, gpu, vram

noble aspen
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It's kind of shocking to me if i'm to be honest, I opened a reasonably simple scene and it got up to, like. 9.4GB VRAM

shadow wadi
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Yeah

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It caches a lot

noble aspen
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I'm kind of surprised I managed to do anything on my old 1660

shadow wadi
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Yeah, have you made sure you’re using OptiX?

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OptiX and the nvidia denoiser are literal kagic

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*magic

noble aspen
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Yes indeed

shadow wadi
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Pushes what would have been a 3 hour render at thousands of samples to a 3 minute render with 128 samples

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Good shit

noble aspen
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Exactly, yeah

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I've always done cycles renders at 4K so it was legitimately 2 hour renders for the longest time

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30-45 minutes at best

shadow wadi
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I had a project using alpha only geo nodes, finished the whole thing only to realise that since i was using blender-git I couldn’t use optix

noble aspen
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eee, maxisad

shadow wadi
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So i dropped the project and waited for that version to leave alpha

noble aspen
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Don't blame you

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I feel like my CPU is making alot of heat for not doing alot, I wanted to undervolt it so I overbought but I heard there was some sort of security concren in that regard?

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Not allowed to undervolt for exploit reasons?

shadow wadi
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i mainly undervolt on laptops to save power for the gpu ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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They were all gnome distros tho so i just used the cpu power manager applet

noble aspen
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Is that something I can actually use? I know this isn't on topic at all

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I just remember seeing there was a concern

shadow wadi
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Also only for intel cpus

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But it definitely works

noble aspen
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I've an intel CPU

shadow wadi
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yeah you could use that then

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if you aren't using gnome maybe look for an alternative that uses the same intel binaries

noble aspen
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What should I look up for it?

shadow wadi
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you might be interested in that

noble aspen
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de/wm?

shadow wadi
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desktop environment or window manager

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e.g. GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, etc

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or window managers like i3, bspwm, awesome, etc

shadow wadi
noble aspen
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Plasma I think

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I've got a friend handholding me through alot of this and whenever it comes to doing a reinstall I have to ask him because I \completely forget, every time

shadow wadi
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so cudos to you

shadow wadi
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or a neofetch screenshot that works too