Where do I put temp. sensors in my case? help please

[slightlyhuman]

I bought this HERE for a fan controller and to moonitor temps.

I has 4 sensors, one for PSU, case,HDD, and CPU.

Where do I put the cpu sensor, I put it on the bottom of the heatsink but on the outside of the cpu so it wont interfere with the HS and cpu. Is that good enough or what? It was showing 34C while my bios was shwoing 49c @ stock speesd, 2.4c

I put the HDD sensor on one of the chipsets on the HD(taped it on there) Is that a good enough spot for it?

I taped the psu sensor on the side of psu, any other better place for it?

The case sensor I was confused on where to put it for best readings?


Please help me and LMK if I need to put them in better areas especially my CPU sensnor


TIA

 

[Mday]

place them anywhere you want, make sure that tip is not touching anything. you want to measure air temp, not metal temp. and you definitely dont want to tape the tip itself.

 

[rocketbubba]

I bought a similar contoller panel recently (mine looks the same but with 2 fan controllers and 2 USB ports). It's useful and looks good - I love the way the fan control knobs light up. As for the temp sensors, I attached one sensor to the side of my heatsink and the other to the heatspreader on my stick of ram. The controller panel reports the heatsink temps at about ~6 degrees C less than the motherboard monitor (I use the ASUS Probe monitor) reports for the cpu core temp. Under full load my controller panel reports ~34 C and the ASUS Probe reads the cpu core temp at ~40 C. When the heatsink temp starts to climb I increase the speed of my case's side fan (I didn't attach my cpu fan to a controller) with the fan controller - works great! BTW, the fan controller really does help to quiet things down. When the machine idles I set all the fans on about half-speed (~1400 rpm).

 

[amcdonald]

I'd place the sensors on the NB, the gpu heatsink, the hard drive area, and the psu.
Right now I'm only monitoring my gpu heatsink... its the only component that has a chance of overheating if my fans aren't moving fast enough.