Software Reference

ASUS Graphics Card Software Reference26
5. ASUS SmartDoctor
ASUS SmartDoctor is designed to satisfy two major goals. One is to
monitor the graphic chip status, alerting users about abnormal events,
such as fan malfunction or chip overheat. The other, as the name
“SmartDoctor” implies, is to “cool” down the graphic chip smartly when it is
not necessary for it to be kept running at full speed.
5.1 Functions
• Monitors graphic chip temperature, fan speed and voltage
• Notifies users about irregular hardware events, such as temperature
overheat, fan malfunction, and out-of-safe-range voltage.
• Forcibly cools down the graphic chip when the graphic chip’s
temperature is over an acceptable temperature, to protect the graphic
chip from overheat damage.
• Cools down the graphic chip’s temperature when it is idle, and restores
it to its maximum capability once needed, thus smartly extending the
graphic chip’s lifetime.
• Cools down the GPU’s temperature to lengthen GPU lifetime.
• Sets monitor’s tolerable range or value to fit system’s requirement.
• Speed up system by adjusting core and memory clock slider manually.
• Provide 5 levels of fan speed adjustment.
AGP bus VDDQ Voltage and AGP bus 3.3 Voltage should be supplied
steadily by your motherboard. Otherwise, your system will crash.