I have a Quadro 4000.
I just use it to display graphics. I do not want to do use it’s capabilities, other than being able to display Ubuntu on my screen. It just came with a PC that I use.
It idles at around 90C. Here is the output from nvidia-smi
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.26 Driver Version: 375.26 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Quadro 4000 Off | 0000:03:00.0 On | N/A |
| 61% 87C P0 N/A / N/A | 522MiB / 1984MiB | 1% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1577 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 304MiB |
| 0 2764 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 216MiB |
I believe the problem is because the heatsink is clogged. Before I attempt to unclog it, I just want to try to throttle it to slow down, and therefore cool down.
I have tried:
$ nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=0
Which returns:
Attribute ‘GPUPowerMizerMode’ (T7500:0[gpu:0]) assigned value 0.
However, that does not seem to have an effect in NVIDAI X Server settings.
I suspect this could be because the automatic throtting keeps changing the performane level again. But I am not sure.
What else could I try?