Temperature lead placement

[scotagne]

Where does everyone place their CPU and HD temperature leads exactly? I used a short piece of electrical tape t fasten the CPU lead to the heatsink's fan assembly so that it is touching the fins on the facng up side of the heatsink on my AMD 3000+.

 

[akira34]

For the cpu temp lead/probe, you want it as close to the processor as you can possible get without actually preventing the heatsink and fan from doing their jobs. AS for the hard drive probe, let the drive run for a while and feel around for it's warmest spot... Place the probe there so that you'll get the highest temp reading on the drive.

Personally, I've found those types of probes just shy of totally useless. For one thing, only extreme temps (for the innards of a computer case) will do harm to a hard drive. For another, the drives are made to shutdown if they hit the danger zone as far as temps go. As are most computer components/parts. Motherboards have probes that will give you a reading built into them. You can use software like Motherboard Monitor to display the temps in your system tray, so you don't need to look far for them.

 

[scotagne]

Right on. Thanks for the info.