The NVIDIA tester is a well-designed application for NVIDIA graphics cards, and will allow us to know almost everything. technical information of them, monitor your parameters in real time (including use and heat) even excess in a simpler way, which will allow us to reduce more performance.
You can download the NVIDIA tester on its author's website for free.
Monitoring on NVIDIA tester
Hardware monitoring is something we should always keep in mind, otherwise we could not see if Hardware provided any problem, if the cooling of the equipment was inadequate, etc. In this case, this software will show us all the drawings of the graphics card from the first time we open it, it shows above the technical data and under the monitor summary.
In the area below, as we mentioned, we have a monitoring section where it is displayed at temperatures, consumption, power levels, load level and speed of operation. If we want to see this in a visible and practical way graphical graphogram, we can do it simply by clicking on the monitor icon, the second one starting at the top located in the upper left corner of the window.
By right-clicking on any part of the graph, we can change the parameters we want to see in the "Monitors" section. Therefore, we can add and subtract parameters such as voltage, operating frequency, temperature, usage, fan speed, etc.
It is also possible to save all the fields of the CSV file to do a deeper analysis over time, and you can change the size of this monitor window.
How to work more efficiently with the NVIDIA inspector
The monitoring part of this software may be similar to the GPU-Z, but the main difference is that the Explorer will allow us to overlay the graphics card right here. To do this, we must first click the «Show Previous» button in the bottom right corner of the window, after which a warning message will appear that too much can be dangerous, that's why (and in this case we say it again), if you have done it it should be at your own risk.
After pressing Yes on the warning, the section will open to the right of the window with many parameters to overlay the graphics card. Here we can see at the top of the drop-down menu with the set of Overuls sets used, and as low as we can, with navigation bars or even buttons that will deliver these to standard titles, change four parameters:
- Base Clock Offset: this works to increase the GPU core operating frequency.
- Memory Clock Offset: Same as before but touching memory graphic.
- Energy and Temperature Target: this parameter is percent, and for us to understand each one is related to the energy and heat component that will be applied automatically to the graph. In other words, at certain temperatures the GPU will lower and lower its frequency to return to the available temperatures.
- The next wrap bar is the maximum temperature for the active steering.
In the bottom area we have three buttons. The first is to create a shortcut to use the parameters we have then. The second button, Apply Defaults, will restore the graph to its factory status depending on the parameters of the overuls. Finally, the third button is used to use the conversion we have done on the GPU.
Note: Depending on the graphic and its firmware, it may be that, as in the case of our example and especially in the most modern drawings, some parameters cannot be changed. In our case, it doesn't allow us to change the voltage or speed of the fans, and this is due to software and hardware incompatibilities because, after all, NVIDIA Inspector is a 2016 software.
