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ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Ti Poseidon Review - Graphics Card Thermal Imaging Measurements (FLIR)

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/25/2015 06:33 AM [ 4] 7 comment(s)

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Thermal Imaging Temperature Measurements

A new addition to our reviews will be the inclusion of Forward Looking Infra Red thermal images of hardware. Over the past years we have been trying to figure out what the best possible way is to measure temperatures on hardware. Multiple options are available but the best thing to do is to visualize heat coming from the product or component being tested. The downside of thermal imaging hardware is simple, FLIR camera's with a bit of decent resolution costs up-to 10,000 EUR. Hence we passed on it for a long time. With a thermal imaging camera a special lens focuses the infrared light emitted by all of the objects in view. This focused light is scanned by a phased array of infrared-detector elements. The detector elements create a very detailed temperature pattern called a thermogram. It only takes about one-thirtieth of a second for the detector array to obtain the temperature information to make the thermogram. This information is obtained from several thousand points in the field of view of the detector array. The thermogram created by the detector elements is translated into electric impulses. The impulses are sent to a signal-processing unit, a circuit board with a dedicated chip that translates the information from the elements into data for the display. The signal-processing unit sends the information to the display, where it appears as various colors depending on the intensity of the infrared emission. The combination of all the impulses from all of the elements creates the image. We can seek hotspots on the PCB indicating, for example, GPU but also VRM temperature as well as how heat is distributed throughout a product. We do hope you will enjoy this new technology as it did cost us an arm and a leg to be able to implement it. 


We can measure pretty accurate temperatures at the GPUs and VRM areas. So once we start to stress the GPU the thermals quickly change. We can measure thermals down to a 10th of a degree.

  • We reach roughly 50 degrees C on M1, the GPU, which is spot on with what the thermal sensor reports back.
  • At M2/M3/M4 (M2 would be VRM memory Measure Point 2) the VRM area can be spotted, it runs just close to 60  Degrees C on that spot, that is considered to be a very good temperature. Make sure you have plenty airflow inside your chassis as that will always help. 
  • At M5 the coolant inflow temperature
  • At M6 the coolant exit temperature.



When we position the thermal camera outwards we can see that the overall cooler design really works well. Take a good look, that is a rare sighting :)
 

 

Yeah, you wish you graphics card thermal image would look like that :)




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