Best program to moniter temperatures?

[johnnyr1]

I'm looking for a good program that can give me some accurate temps for my mobo, cpu, and case.

Thanks!

 

[Kwint Sommer]

I have half a dozen different answers depending on which motherboard and CPU you're using. Further, unless you have a special probe that came with your case you are going to need more than a program to check your case temps.

 

[johnnyr1]

I'm running an E6600 with a 965P DS3 motherboard.

 

[Gautama2]

Didn't your mobo come with software for such a thing? Anyways, use Speedfan.

 

[Kwint Sommer]

Try mother board monitor 5 MBM5 (I'm not sure it supports your motherboard) and Core Temp which has what seem to be the most reliable E6600 readings. My E6600 will give very low temps in Speedfan, so low that it occasionally runs below ambient temperature which makes me think that either the guys at Intel are Gods, I shouldn't have passed my thermodynamics exam here at MIT or Speedfan doesn't work with Core 2 Duo.

 

[Maximilian]

Try speedfan. It dosent work with my mobo but its better than MBM5. MBM5 isnt updated any longer so theres a good bet it wont support your board, and if it dosent it will probably read the temps wrong and come up with 9 million *C or somthing then shut your pc down, which it did to my old mobo.

 

[imported_Crusader]

I used to swear by MBM.. but after installing it a few months ago for the first time since 2001 it doenst appear to be supported anymore.


I would suggest Nvidia Ntune if you are using an Nforce board. I'm using it right now.. you can change bios options with it, its easy to understand, you can change fan speeds on the mobo/GPU/whatever.. setup warnings for temps ect

Otherwise, I'd look next to brand specific utilities like Asus Probe ect. depending on the brand.

Ntune is excellent and theres no setup at all since its clearly for NV hardware.
Check out the board manufacturers site or your boards software cds.

 

[Conky]

I still use good old MBM5 with my latest system(E6400@2.4GHz on ASRock mobo) and it seems to be the most consistent program.

It also reads the temps at about where I would expect them to be considering how much heat the system puts into my computer room versus my older systems.

 

[lopri]

Aren't all these software reading temps from the handful of same sensors? You'll end up with a couple of similar readings no matter how many different software you try.

 

[Kwint Sommer]

I think I need to write in all caps that way other people will read my posts before adding their own:

FOR THE E6600, SPEEDFAN REPORTS TEMPS 10+C BELOW THE ACTUAL VALUE. ASUS PROBE IS NEARLY AS BAD AS SPEEDFAN FOR THE E6600.

Speedfan is a great program unless you have an E6600. I put my P5W DH Deluxe with an E6600 system in a freezer at -7C and Speedfan read as low as -9C for my CPU and -2C under full load. Right now Speedfan is claiming my E6600 is at 27C when the room is at 21C and I'm running at 3.3 GHz with a program taking up 50% CPU usage and the heatsink feels like 45+C. If really like speedfan use it and add 20C just to be safe, otherwise use Core Temp for the CPU.

 

[johnnyr1]

^^^ Are you sure that this is true for all boards...or maybe its just yours?

 

[Kwint Sommer]

It is true for several Motherboards, I can't say for all but I suggest you take the 5 minutes required to download both and compare. If they are significantly different then use Core Temp or melt your CPU because Speedfan and Asus Proble say 60C and you're doing 80C.