[jackdw]

I bought a new case. Pretty good (should be with it's hefty price tag of £65 ($130))

It has a HDD and CPU temperature sensor connected to the front screen. I have two hard drives so I just wedges the HDD sensor between the two hard drive, lovely job.

Where do I poke the CPU sensor to get a reading of CPU temp?

I'm confused

Thanks
-Jack

 

[jackdw]

Bumpity bump bump bump

 

[crjdriver]

Have you read the manual as to the placement of the sensor?

Most of these are very thin wafer like devices. You would attach it where the mfg tells you to attach it.

FWIW I would use the temp reading in the bios or perhaps something like speedfan to read temps. Speedfan will read hd temps as well. Think about it; you are reading only the temp from the outside of the hd case not the internal temp. One other thing; I never recommend installing hd one right on top of the other. You are not allowing any room for air to circulate around the drives.

My motherboard came with one of those type probes and I do not even use it.

 

[brite750]

I DON'T think you would want to stick it between heatsink and cpu, so what would be the point?

 

[jackdw]

The case didn't come with a manual.
I already have speedfan.
The case has only 2 places for hard drives, the two IDE ones have to be next to each other. for the SATA I bought some brackets so it fitted into a cd drive bay.

I just want it to give me the CPU temp when im on games etc or other full scren programs where I can't see speedfan in the taskbar.

 

[crjdriver]

It is not going to be all that accurate unless you attach the probe to the cpu die or heatspreader [NOT recommended]
I have seen some of these that actually went under the cpu [between the pins] again NOT recommended. You can insert the probe between the fins of the heatsink. You will not do any damage like that however the temp reading will not be all the accurate. It might give you some idea of heat problems.

FWIW I have never seen a high end case with only two internal 3.5" [hard disk] bays. Most have 4-6 places to install 3.5" drives.

 

[jackdw]

It's a small micro ATX case.

Not my image but you can see the hard drive. And I don't have water cooling...

 

[schusterjo]

Well I always have put them in between the heatsink and cpu, I personally never had an issue. again this would all depend on what sensor we are talking about here. that's the only place that your going to get somewhat an accurate reading. Sure you can put it on the heatink low to toward the bottom but then you will have air blowing on it from the cpu fan creating a non accurate reading. but still would get an approximate temp. another place I have put the sensor and is the best place to get the temp reading is under the cpu, but this takes knowledge and skills. very ea sly can burn up a chip doing this, I suggest you not doing this.

 

[jackdw]

The sensor itself looks like a small thermistor in between two plastic tape like things. I'd open it up if you need me too just it's all tightly packed in...

 

[jackdw]

With this smaller case, I thought some of those round IDE cables would help airflow so I ordered some and fitted them today. While I was inside, I popped the sensor in between the heatsink fins.
I was happily online, playing music etc when I casually glanced over at the screen and it said 52 degrees!
I hastily opened speedfan which confirmed the screen. I whipped off the case and while doing so noticed that all FAN1, FAN2 and FAN3 were all at 0rpm.

What happened is that I removed my SATA drive from it's mounts to reach the IDE's on the motherboard. When I plugged it back in, I must have re-routed the power cable, over the CPU fan which when it tried to spin up, couldn't.

I'm just glad I didn't go on a game or max out my CPU....

Anyway, I'll mark as solved.

 

[schusterjo]

Ah if you did probably would not been to serious. Motherboards nowadays do a good job at shutting down before you overheat one. Good to know you have it all working. Good luck and happy gaming.