>> I don't know about his graphics card, but I can sort of monitor my GPU's 
>> temperature by listening to the fan. It seems to speed up when I ask the 
>> GPU to do some work, and slow down again afterwards. Although nothing I 
>> have yet run has made it speed up all that much... I guess it's cold in 
>> my room or something.
> 
>   You can only "monitor" the temperature up to a certain point by listening,
> because the fan won't go faster than a certain speed. You have no way of
> knowing if it's actually overheating.

When I turn the computer on, the fan spins up to maximum speed. While 
the computer is running, it has never (yet) gone anywhere near that 
fast. But yes, if it did reach that point, there would be no way to tell 
if it really wanted to go faster still.

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