Temperature monitor.

[QUOTH]

People Prefered Temperature monitor.

Post your favorite and why. Post bad experiences you have had.

I will add more as they are mentioned. If I miss yours PM me.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Take a look at SpeedFan and Everest.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

I still like Motherboard Monitor 5.

 

[Billb2]

Most motherboard manufacturers supply monitoring software for their boards. Check their website.

Coretemp. SpeedFan, Everest, SisoftSandra, there's a lot of them.

 

[Doclife]

I downloaded speedfan and I can see the temperature of my CPU (core 1, core 2), video card, hard drive, IT8718F and LM75 chips. Which temperature belongs to the North bridge chip ? My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R. Thanks in advance

 

[covert24]

everest ultimate for the win!

 

[aigomorla]

nothing beats coretemp

 

[Zepper]

No SpeedFan in the list? You need to run the mfr's Monitoring program first (I voted for this) as well as looking in your Health page in your BIOS setup to find out what those think things should be so you can set up the generic programs to match your mobo. A lot of the generic programs won't be setup for your mobo out of the box (unless it is an older one) - you'll have to configure it manually.

.bh.

 

[QUOTH]

My fault. *corrects*

So where do you get ideal/max temperurature stats from? manufacturer?


Q

 

[Zepper]

Ideal is always ambient temp as that's as good as you can get with air or unchilled water cooling. Max allowable comes from the component mfrs. I don't like to see anything above 60 C myself, but some vid cards will run above that all the time. Ask in the respective sections about safe maximums for your specific vid card, CPU, etc. or hit the mfr's site.

.bh.

 

[QUOTH]

OK, will do.

I'm looking at cable tidy mod's. Some really cool topics.

Something I'm not shure about. Can you run cables under the motherboard? My first instinct is that this is a bad idea...

 

[PCTC2]

HWMonitor (from CPUID)

 

[Billb2]

Depends. Blocking air flow from the dead space under a mobo can be problematic. On benchmarking rigs, I cut a hole in the mobo mounting plate and install a 40 x 10mm fan on the back of the plate just to ventilate the space.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

coretemp should give very accurate measurements, but i don't leave it running. i run speedfan on startup to monitor temps and stuff (checked against coretemp) and throttling fans.

attn: speedfan will report temps 15C low on a Q6600, so add +15C offset in settings.