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robrene

Member

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 168

About the NVIDIA article

I'm currently manually configuring my xorg.conf for my NVIDIA card, and I found an improvement for the NVIDIA article where it explains how to get the temperature from your card.

To display the GPU temp in the shell, use nvidia-settings as follows:

$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp

This will output something similar to the following:

Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (hostname:0.0): 41.
'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.

The GPU temps of this board is 41 C.

One can combine grep and cut or sed, awk, etc. to parse the output to a two digit number for use in utils such as rrdtool or conky, among others.

Example:

$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp | grep host | cut -c42-43
41

However, nvidia-settings has its own way to do that whole grep and cut thing. My proposal:

To display the GPU temp in the shell, use nvidia-settings as follows:

$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp

This will output something similar to the following:

Attribute 'GPUCoreTemp' (hostname:0.0): 41.
'GPUCoreTemp' is an integer attribute.
'GPUCoreTemp' is a read-only attribute.
'GPUCoreTemp' can use the following target types: X Screen, GPU.

The GPU temps of this board is 41 C.

In order to get just the temperature for use in utils such as rrdtool or conky, among others:

$ nvidia-settings -q gpucoretemp -t
41

I wasn't sure where to put this proposal, so I put it in this forum. I couldn't find an edit button in the wiki

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ataraxia

Member

From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: About the NVIDIA article

There are edit buttons on every section when you are logged in. You should make this change yourself.

robrene

Member

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 168

Re: About the NVIDIA article

Alright, I had to register to see those links first. I added the change, thanks for the help

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ngoonee

Forum Fellow

From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,358

Re: About the NVIDIA article

Good find .

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