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I just installed a passively cooled GT 730 (4GB version by Zotac), and I'd like to read its temperature, specially because it's passively cooled. It seems to behave correctly (after more than 30 minutes of endless stressing OpenGL work, touching the passive heat sink by hand feels like a MacBook Air at full load, so I guess it's in safe temp, but anyway I'd like to be able to measure it).
I'm at the latest 10.11.6 version (I mean, including the latest security update). I'm using NVIDIA web drivers because the GT 730, despite being a Kepler (GK208), does require the web drivers, at least on 10.11.6.
HWMonitor was installed by MultiBeast when I installed El Capitan last August. The numbers it had provided these months are fairly complete (temp for each core, SSD temps, etc...), except there were no GPU numbers. I didn't pay much attention to that because I was using the HD530 and I thought it would mean that the HD530 has no temp sensor.
But now, with the GT 730 I see there're no GPU temp numbers either. The first I did was to update to the latest HWMonitor (6.23.1417). But it didn't fix it. The GPU temp doesn't appear either.
Trying to find the cause, I found that GPUSensors isn't being loaded, but the rest of sensors do:
If I do sudo kextstat | grep hwsensors , I get this:
If I look for error messages at /var/log/system.log, I don't find any error saying something like GPUSensors wasn't able to be loaded:
So, the question is: Why are CPUSensors, ACPISensors, IT87xxSensors, and PTIDSensors being loaded, but GPUSensors won't?
At /Library/Extensions/ , I have:
But, however, there's no plugins folder inside FakeSMC.kext:
So, why are CPUSensors, ACPISensors, and LPCSensors being loaded if there's no plugins folder? And why GPUSensors won't?
Then I remembered I boot with Clover, which has its home in the EFI partition. In fact, some searches seem to indicate that FakeSMC sensors kexts should be loaded from the EFI partition. I still don't have the knowledge for knowing if this is true or not, but /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.11/ is empty (zero files), so I conclude that CPUSensors, ACPISensors, and LPCSensors are being loaded from /Library/Extensions/ in some mysterious way, as there's no plugins folder.
So, how could I proceed next? Any hints at getting GPUSensors loaded?
Thanks!
I'm at the latest 10.11.6 version (I mean, including the latest security update). I'm using NVIDIA web drivers because the GT 730, despite being a Kepler (GK208), does require the web drivers, at least on 10.11.6.
HWMonitor was installed by MultiBeast when I installed El Capitan last August. The numbers it had provided these months are fairly complete (temp for each core, SSD temps, etc...), except there were no GPU numbers. I didn't pay much attention to that because I was using the HD530 and I thought it would mean that the HD530 has no temp sensor.
But now, with the GT 730 I see there're no GPU temp numbers either. The first I did was to update to the latest HWMonitor (6.23.1417). But it didn't fix it. The GPU temp doesn't appear either.
Trying to find the cause, I found that GPUSensors isn't being loaded, but the rest of sensors do:
If I do sudo kextstat | grep hwsensors , I get this:
If I look for error messages at /var/log/system.log, I don't find any error saying something like GPUSensors wasn't able to be loaded:
So, the question is: Why are CPUSensors, ACPISensors, IT87xxSensors, and PTIDSensors being loaded, but GPUSensors won't?
At /Library/Extensions/ , I have:
But, however, there's no plugins folder inside FakeSMC.kext:
So, why are CPUSensors, ACPISensors, and LPCSensors being loaded if there's no plugins folder? And why GPUSensors won't?
Then I remembered I boot with Clover, which has its home in the EFI partition. In fact, some searches seem to indicate that FakeSMC sensors kexts should be loaded from the EFI partition. I still don't have the knowledge for knowing if this is true or not, but /Volumes/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/10.11/ is empty (zero files), so I conclude that CPUSensors, ACPISensors, and LPCSensors are being loaded from /Library/Extensions/ in some mysterious way, as there's no plugins folder.
So, how could I proceed next? Any hints at getting GPUSensors loaded?
Thanks!
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