Can someone explain how temps work for a gpu?

but thats not something that can be guaged on an ati gpu as they haven't developed an interface like nvidia's nvapi :\

NVAPI is an interface that allows applications to access hardware information such as currently used gpu and memory, among other things.

that seems to list gpu usage, which i was aware was available in gpu-z as well, but it lacks the vram mb usage and a few of the other nvapi features.

if your fps gets to slow you can actually rely o nthe gpu usage to find where the drops are coming from.

though most often they are caused by a the overuse of shadows.

Im not a mw2 fan, and I dislike wow for overrated self reasoning. But damn, I didnt think wow was that hardcore. I know MW2 killed someones PSU when it max loaded on a 4890.

you can't max load a 4890, the vrm kicks in and shuts off the gpu well before that.

squall leonhart said:

you can't max load a 4890, the vrm kicks in and shuts off the gpu well before that.

No no, the load on the gpu was so heavy the power consumption killed a 550w psu. Could have been a shit psu also, but its still a lot.

i bet it was on its way out well before the video card killed it.