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Mythrilfan · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: Temperature logging

I need a program that logs my computer's cpu and such temperatures. Anyone knows of such?

Exxman · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

ya...

Google. Type in "CPU temperature monitoring software". Tons of answers.

Exxman

Mythrilfan · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:48 pm Post subject:

Ok downloaded the "speedfan" program. Seems to work fine, exept some little seem-to-be-bugs or sth.
But i now have two questions.

My processor seems to go up to 54 degrees celsius. This is not normal, is it?

And for anyone who uses "speedfan", how do i know what temperatures it shows? Has 4 readings, "temp1" "temp2" "temp3" and just "temp", which only shows 11 degrees celsius, that can't be right. Temp1 is surely the processor (the only one that heats up until it reaches vapouring temerature or so); temp2 currently shows 30* celsius, a little more than the room's temperature (24*c) and the "temp3" shows 22 (well, can't blame it for that, it's not that easy to read temperatures without a real termometer...)

Sandpiper-N121PP · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:00 am Post subject: Re: Temperature logging

Mythrilfan wrote: I need a program that logs my computer's cpu and such temperatures. Anyone knows of such?

What kind of processor and mother board do you have... chances are that the maker of it has a program that will do it for you the correct way. I know that Asus and MSI both come with a temp program for the CPU and such.

ricktobin · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:35 am Post subject:

My temperature program gives me temp1=case temp, temp2=cpu temp, temp3= chipset temp, and temp=motherboard temp.

CPUCool (free and pay version)

http://www.podien.de/

Mythrilfan · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject:

I have an AMD Athlon 1000mhz on a Chainech mobo (i think VIA KT133) from about autumn 2001.

Commander Cool · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

Hey all,
I read through this and began to wonder..why on earth do you need a temperature sensor on your computer?? Im sure some other people are asking themselves the same question...I mean why!?

ricktobin · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:49 pm Post subject:

The lower the temp of your internal components, the faster it runs.

Having access to the temp readings and checking them every so often is also good preventive maintenance. If you start to see higher temps it could be a sign that something is getting ready to go wrong, or it just means you need to open up the case and give it a good dusting.

EDIT:

You wanna see how serious some people take cooling their CPU, check out this test and the pics that go along with it.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20031230/index.html

Commander Cool · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

Oh yeh, why didnt I think of that!
DUH!
I remember an IT at where I used to work-we were discussing Flight Simulator and processors etc and he was telling me that in theory you could achieve infinitive processing speed if you managed to achieve a temperature of absolute zero..which requires far too much energy and is just stupid but yeh Rick..I knew of people who would install massive fans into their computer and it would sound like a bleeding jet engine when you switched it on!
Oh well, have a good day y'all
Derek

Exxman · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

@ Derek...LOL. I fail to see the reason for a temp unit on Myth's system as well. Kind of like putting in an FMC into a glider no? Ahhh...but to each his/her own I guess.

Exx

Mythrilfan · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

yes i admit it i have temperature fetish grrr

Well actually here's the deal.

When i first bought my computer (hrmm well ok my father bought it back then), it had a few problems and we manually "tuned" it a little on the inside of the case. Well it seemed to work fine but my father, for some reason or other did not put the case back together again.
And so it stood there for years and probarbly made the air clean from any dust because it sucked everything inside from its open side. That was until recently when i decided that i would make my computer a favour and clean it. It was hard but interesting work and i got it done in about three hours. But man my house was dusty after that...and finally i put the case together again. The way it was meant to be in the first place. Think of the noise and all...Oh and i made an interesting discovery. I was missing the main and largest, so-called case-fan. You know the largest one that is meant to suck the air from the OUTSIDE, INSIDE. The one that should have been near the big ventholes in the case. The one i did not have.

But still i put the thing back again. And guess what? It started to crash very often.
I had just read of overheating so thought that this may be the problem. And it seems that i really am a "genius". As seen from the easrlier post my cpu was hot enough to melt rock...54*c. So I opened the case again...and now my highest peak has been 44*c. Ten degrees lower...niiice!

Well i will eventually have to but that fan. Fortunately it should not cost so much either. Just have to drag me off this chair...but it's so comfortable so i dunno yet :P

Well, what are your highest temperatures?

Exxman · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject:

I never get above 35 but I have water cooling.

Exx

Commander Cool · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:33 pm Post subject:

I looked at that site which Rick posted up for us..and wow...liquid nitrogen...thats pretty crazy...if anyone knows of any other "mad" plans to overclock their system then I think we'd all like to hear them just so we can laugh at them as their computer begins to suck up the desk and turn into a massive blackhole/fan!

derek

p.s. I started looking at sites about absolute zero and I found this delightful site explained to us as if we were six years old :P
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/temperature.html[url]

Sandpiper-N121PP · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:39 am Post subject: Case Temp

Exxman wrote: I never get above 35 but I have water cooling.

Exx

Oh Yea... well I never get above 80 degrees... but then again I have 9 fans in my case and it sounds like a 747-400 starting up when I turn it on! So there Exxman!!! =;