Temp probe on uncovered CPU

[JZL]

I took off the case to get a GFD on. Should I still put the temp probe on the heatsink side of the heatplate? This is an Asus P2T cable on a K7V.

[Murphy]

JZL (Mar 11, 2001 12:24 p.m.):
I took off the case to get a GFD on. Should I still put the temp probe on the heatsink side of the heatplate? This is an Asus P2T cable on a K7V.

In the good old times I still had my heatsinkplate on the CPU, I put my thermistor beween the PCB and the heatsinkplate in contact with the heatsinkplate. Because I haven't got the cable with my K7V, I used a car thermometer with an outside probe, works fine. Does the original probe fit between the PCB and the heatsinkplate? Now that my heatsinkplated has also been removed for the watercooling, I use it pushed and insulated to the CPU backside.

On http://www.k7v.com I read how to make my own thermal probe. My big question to you is: where do you connect it to you mobo? I know it must be somewhere on the four pins under the slot-A connector, which two? I've searched the manual but it doesn't say which of the pins explicitly.

[JZL]

According to the manual, p.29, it goes between the heatplate and heatsink (which is where I have mine, w/ a VOS32). If the cover's on, I don't know where else you'd put it. I figure most CPU probes are made assuming the cover will still be on, and I figured I wanted a "standard" reading. Now that it's off, I wondered if I ought to put it somewhere else since I can.

The wire goes into JTCPU, which is the the connector on the left of the two that are together slightly to the right of the CPU-slot down above the AGP slot. The other one is the power-supply temp probe connector. (manual p.30)