Asus MA3850 Series - Manual (Page 32)

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7. ASUS SmartDoctor
ASUS SmartDoctor is designed to monitor the temperature, voltage and fan
condition of your graphics card. This utility also smartly cools down your Graphics
Processing Unit (GPU) temperature and allows you to adjust the graphics card
clock settings.
7.1 Functions
• Monitors graphic chip temperature, fan speed and voltage.
• Notifies user of irregular hardware events, such as overheating, fan
malfunction and out-of-safe-range voltage.
• Smartly cools down the graphic chip when its temperature is over the limit.
• Automatically adjusts the fan speed according to the GPU temperature.
• Allows manual adjustment of GPU core and memory clock.
7.2 Launching ASUS SmartDoctor
The ASUS SmartDoctor utility is a memory resident program that is launched
everytime you start Windows
® and remains in the computer memory to check the
graphics card status.
If you minimize the SmartDoctor window, click the SmartDoctor icon SmartDoctor window, click the SmartDoctor icon window, click the SmartDoctor icon click the SmartDoctor icon on the
Windows ® taskbar and select Popup SmartDoctor to access the menu. o access the menu.
If you exit the utility, go to Start > Programs > ASUS > ASUS SmartDoctor >
ASUS SmartDoctor to relaunch the program.
Voltage status tab
Temperature
status tab
Fan speed tab
GPU clock
slider
Memory clock
slider
Default
clock
Set clock
Setup
VGA status
Minimize
Exit
Help
If your graphics card does not support voltage, temperature, and fan speed
monitoring, you will only see the clock settings panel display. Refer to
7.6
Engine and memory clock settings for details.