How many of you trust via Motherboard Monitor?

[zodder]

I was wondering how all you long time Via user feel about their motherboard monitor. It's all I have on my KK266 that tells me anything about temps and volts. I've never seen a CPU Current Temp on my machine above 39C using it. I run seti 24/7 on the KK266 with a 1.33@1.5 T-bird (1.89v). From what I've read, that doesn't seem like a very high temp at 100% usage. Make me kinda doubt the software.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

the software isn't a problem, its getting data from the motherboard hardware dedicated to monitoring temps,etc.... the problem lies in how hte kk266's socket-thermistor is placed, etc.



Mike

 

[Wind]

Each mobo read temp differently (as Mike said). MBM is just there to provide guide/estimate temp reading....u'll have to trust it caused there is not other ways to achieve accurate temp reading on mobo AMD mobo.

 

[panhead49]

i have the same board .........i would say the monitor is as acurate as any other moniter program out there..........mbm and the bios say about the same things for my specs......as Mike said its what all the programs use to get the temps from the board......if its in a bad place then its not to accurate
the kk266 from everyone ive heard from, is pretty close......good enough......if you were to hot .....you would have some heat related problems......
edit ....i run seti too and use a swiftech 462 hsf.........i get 40 max full load.......

 

[bkdraft]

I personally prefer Speed Fan 4.01. At least this will give you another program that you can check your temp with. I like the way you can pick which temp you want to show in the system tray, Celcius or Fahrenheit, so you can monitor the cpu temp easily. My Athlon 1.4 on a AK31 rev3 is running at 44C.