What is a good motherboard/cpu, maybe even northbridge chipset temperature monitoring program that's compatible with AMD X2 systems?
I used to use motherboard monitor 5 but that doesn't seem to work anymore for my new system.
ECS KN1 SLI Lite
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64
Zalman NB47J Northbridge heatsink
I'm a little paranoid about the temperature since having put together the system and turning it on for the first time, about 30-40 minutes after it was one I started smelling something burning... I don't know if that was something from outside or my computer, but as of yet nothing has blown up and the burning smell is gone.
I thought at first maybe it was the Zalman NB heatsink that wasn't doing it's job, since I had kind of a tough time putting it on (taking off the old one, cleaning off the old thermal tape as best I could with a razor blade, then wiping it down with some isopropyl alky...). One thing that concerned me was that...I could still slide the heatsink around very slightly after having pinned it down with some new thermal paste. Overall it was still pretty secure I tightened all the screws and everything and once booted up the heatsink does get hot (not scalding)....but still... Also, another thing about the NB heatsink is that it's touching the plastic cover over the heatsink of my X800GTO vid card. Actually the first row of pins from the Zalman heatsink is under the plastic cover, and saying hello to the heatsink on the vid card itself. I figure maybe that's not too bad since the exhaust from the vid card fan can cool down the NB heatsink slightly.
Second thing I'm concerned about was the heatsink for the CPU. Since the copper base for the heatsink was smaller than the ihs on the X2, I had a bit of trouble getting the copper base to sit completely in the center of the cpu. After everything was latched, the base is slightly off center, but the paste got smooshed out from underneath onto the untouched cpu area. I just hope everything is as secure as I think it is... CPU Temperatures seem good though from the mobo bios monitoring menu (holding a steady 41-42 C), so I think it should be good...
Third thing... are the fans in the PSU. On my original board there was a 3 pin fan connector specifically for the PSU. I don't know if all the fan connectors on the mobo are the same or if some are designated to spin slower or something i don't know. I'm still a noob. But I plugged in my PSU's fan into the connector where the old Northbridge heatsink fan plugged into. I hope that doesn't affect my power supply fans in any way. I feel almost nothing coming out from the back, but I hope that's just my PSU keeping power consumption low due to temperature control (I have the Antec TruePower First Generation 430watt PSU btw...)
ANYWAY...
So yea if anybody knows of a temperature monitoring program I could use to keep tabs on the temp from within windows, please let a guy know!
I used to use motherboard monitor 5 but that doesn't seem to work anymore for my new system.
ECS KN1 SLI Lite
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 64
Zalman NB47J Northbridge heatsink
I'm a little paranoid about the temperature since having put together the system and turning it on for the first time, about 30-40 minutes after it was one I started smelling something burning... I don't know if that was something from outside or my computer, but as of yet nothing has blown up and the burning smell is gone.
I thought at first maybe it was the Zalman NB heatsink that wasn't doing it's job, since I had kind of a tough time putting it on (taking off the old one, cleaning off the old thermal tape as best I could with a razor blade, then wiping it down with some isopropyl alky...). One thing that concerned me was that...I could still slide the heatsink around very slightly after having pinned it down with some new thermal paste. Overall it was still pretty secure I tightened all the screws and everything and once booted up the heatsink does get hot (not scalding)....but still... Also, another thing about the NB heatsink is that it's touching the plastic cover over the heatsink of my X800GTO vid card. Actually the first row of pins from the Zalman heatsink is under the plastic cover, and saying hello to the heatsink on the vid card itself. I figure maybe that's not too bad since the exhaust from the vid card fan can cool down the NB heatsink slightly.
Second thing I'm concerned about was the heatsink for the CPU. Since the copper base for the heatsink was smaller than the ihs on the X2, I had a bit of trouble getting the copper base to sit completely in the center of the cpu. After everything was latched, the base is slightly off center, but the paste got smooshed out from underneath onto the untouched cpu area. I just hope everything is as secure as I think it is... CPU Temperatures seem good though from the mobo bios monitoring menu (holding a steady 41-42 C), so I think it should be good...
Third thing... are the fans in the PSU. On my original board there was a 3 pin fan connector specifically for the PSU. I don't know if all the fan connectors on the mobo are the same or if some are designated to spin slower or something i don't know. I'm still a noob. But I plugged in my PSU's fan into the connector where the old Northbridge heatsink fan plugged into. I hope that doesn't affect my power supply fans in any way. I feel almost nothing coming out from the back, but I hope that's just my PSU keeping power consumption low due to temperature control (I have the Antec TruePower First Generation 430watt PSU btw...)
ANYWAY...
So yea if anybody knows of a temperature monitoring program I could use to keep tabs on the temp from within windows, please let a guy know!