Temperature monitor app

[Kinantay4]

Greetings!

Recently, I noticed that my laptop is heating up a little while gaming (overwatch), so I decided to keep an eye on the GPU temperature to see how bad it is, Overwatch offers an in-game temperature monitor (just like the fps and ms), but it doesn't make sense, it seems inaccurate.
So my first question is: What app do you recommend me to use to observe both fps and temperature (also, I want it to be a simple app that doesn't affect the PC performance)

My second question is: what is the safe-zone when it comes to the GPU temperature?

Thanks for your time!

[boggy77]

msi afterburner has a nice in-game overlay showing temps and utilisations for both cpu and gpu.

 

as for safe zone, depends on the gpu and laptop manufacturer. usually they start throttling at 85+

[Kinantay4]

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

gpu

Nvidia 930 mx

 

1 minute ago, boggy77 said:

usually they start throttling at 85+

What about 80? does it shorten the life span?

[boggy77]

Just now, Kinantay4 said:

What about 80? does it shorten the life span?

no. you'll just start to get fps drops if it goes beyond 83 or so, as it will automatically downclock to reduce temperatures.

[Pickles von Brine]

I use HWinfo64. Doesn't have onscreen display but that is fine. 

MSI also works well as stated above.

 

As far as temps, most laptops I see run between 70s-90s on temps. They just run hot and there isn't much you can do about it. 

[TetraSky]

8 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

As far as temps, most laptops I see run between 70s-90s on temps. They just run hot and there isn't much you can do about it. 

↑ this.
Laptops run hot, nothing you can do about it.

The only way they might not run as hot... Is if some manufacturer decided to take the hardware from a thin ultrabook and stick it into a massive gaming laptop chassis without changing anything about it. But nobody does that, because it makes no sense.

70 to 90˚C is perfectly acceptable, especially for mobile chips.

[RocketJump]

10 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

I use HWinfo64.
 

I second this recommendation. It also provides a cubic ass-load of other stats and you can display your temps in the system tray.

[Pickles von Brine]

5 minutes ago, RocketJump said:

I second this recommendation. It also provides a cubic ass-load of other stats and you can display your temps in the system tray.

It also supports graphing  Just double click on what you the item it the list and a graph pops out. 

[RocketJump]

3 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

It also supports graphing  Just double click on what you the item it the list and a graph pops out. 

This I did not know, awesome! Now if only I can figure out why VRVOUT isn't displayed on my main machine I'd be a happy camper.

[RAS_3885]

HWinfo64 is great and it will actually interface with RTSS for OSD! You can either display stuff directly, or import sensors/readings into other applications such as Afterburner and configure them to display on the OSD that way.

[Pickles von Brine]

23 minutes ago, RAS_3885 said:

HWinfo64 is great and it will actually interface with RTSS for OSD! You can either display stuff directly, or import sensors/readings into other applications such as Afterburner and configure them to display on the OSD that way.

Oh shit I didn't know that!

[Kinantay4]

16 hours ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

They just run hot and there isn't much you can do about it. 

Well, my friends recommended me to buy a laptop cooling pad. But I won't unless the temp reaches a dangerous zone that affects my PC gaming performance / lifespan

[Pickles von Brine]

Those are pretty much useless. 

Also you won't really be able to control the temps in the laptop unforunately. Almost every laptop hits into the 80s and 90s. Especailly the cheap ones. The high end gaming laptops SOMETIMES gets it right.