TIP: GPU Temperature and blowing out fans

On 03/05/2018 5:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
CORSAIR LINK STINKS. (Details below.)


In message , VanguardLH
writes:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Do they provide simple skins to present the information?Â* Else, by
comparison, Speedfan is elegant because it is simple.

If you cared to look they provide plain dark or light skins.

Look WHERE?Â* I did care to look.Â* In fact, I gave the URL to their
product page that you did not so I had to guess that is the tool to
which you referred.Â* I see no skins.Â* They present no skins.Â* Visit the
URL that I gave.Â* Where do YOU see any skins presented?

Yes you seem to have an old page, I should have included the proper one.

You need the version 4.9.5.25 which is the one I have, it is the latest
one on this page.

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/downloads

Select category, Corsair Link, than 4.9.5.25
Then you will find all the settings etc

Ah, so Corsair won't show be the proper (latest version) screenshots.
Instead I would have to *install* the program before I can see what it
looks like.Â* Thanks for the info but no thanks.Â* I don't install
software just to see what it might look like.Â* I do that ahead of time
as part of researching the software.Â* Corsair really needs to update the
product page to show screenshots for their latest version.

I did a Google Images search on "corsair link" and found some users had
posted screenshots showing a different skin than the one Corsair shows
on their site, like:

http://i.imgur.com/T8DNKnW.png

So they have a less busy page.Â* Hopefully the user can turn off the
blaring white-on-bright-red section titles but it's better than the
background showing the inside of a computer case.

I agree, that UI with the computer case isn't to my liking either.

I've already posted some of this once, but it seems to have got lost, so
here goes again. I installed that 4.9.5.25 (the latest on the page), but
when run, I just got a title bar which disappeared. So I uninstalled it
with prejudice, and tried the oldest on the page (4.7.0.77). That
installed, but when run, it told me there was a later one, did I want it
(it obviously 'phoned home to ask, without asking permission); I said
yes, and it got it and ran.

Since then, my machine has been running hot. At one point I fired up
SpeedFan (in monitoring mode only!), and it was over 100 (C)! I've
quickly plugged in the old USB fan tray I'd been using with my XP
machine, and things are more manageable now (below 60C). I have in the
meantime run Toshiba's own test of the cooling system (takes about 23
minutes), and that said all is well (I heard it run the fan up and
down). Since overheating was what killed my XP machine, _and_ the fan on
this one used to cut in quite audibly for even a slight rise, I'm
decidedly unimpressed with Corsair Link: it seems to me that it has
set/changed some control, even though I only intended to use it as a
monitor; any suggestions to fix what it broke welcomed. I'm certainly
going to uninstall it again: the only reason I haven't is in case it
needs to be there to do any fix.

I thought I'd give it one more chance, so clicked on the start menu
shortcut it installed. It now comes up with (ding) a window saying
"Problem with Shortcut\The parameter is incorrect." So I look at the
properties of the shortcut: it's one of those with the Target box greyed
out and blanked - the sort of thing Microsoft do for Internet Explorer
and some Office things. Fortunately it has something in the "Start in:"
box ("C:\Program Files\CorsairLink4\"), so I look there. The .exe -
which is 26,479 KB! - just for a fan monitor?!? - is indeed 4.9.5.25.
When I try to run it directly, it's back to being the
title-bar-only-and-that-briefly behaviour, although it does add a bar to
the taskbar and an icon to the tray. Left or right clicking on the tray
icon makes nothing happen. I can kill (close) it by right-clicking the
taskbar bar. (There was one task in Task bar, which disappeared.)

So - Corsair Link:
o installs "funny" shortcuts.
o is huge.
o won't run for me more than once (as far as me actually seeing the UI,
that is; _something_ runs when I run it).
o has a pretty horrible UI. (_Might_ be possible to change to a plain
one as described in this thread _if_ the UI would actually come up!)
o _seems_ to have done something to my fan control.

(The one time I did actually see the UI, there seemed to be three modes,
one of which _had_ to be chosen - I think one of them was called
something like "performance". There did _not_ seem to be a "monitor
only" option.)

Thoughts? I do have a full image from only the other day, as it happens,
but I'd rather not go to that if I don't have to. (I may also have
System Restore points.)

Sorry to hear of all your troubles, I would also uninstall it if it gave
me such a hard time.
I am running an i7950 CPU system and an Asus X58 Sbertooth MB.
I left mine running in the performance mode to be sure it used all fans
and everything is good, So I ran it in balanced and quite mode and all
fans and temps stayed the same.
Is yours in Performance mode?
Quite mode may slow down or stop fans, But mine did not
I have one bogus temp on mine always shows 64 deg C both in Corsair and
Speedfan,
some kind of sensor not present thing.
Can't think of anything else to try except uninstall if its not
compatible wit your system.

Rene