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- Nov 30, 2002
- Location
- Arkansas
I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times here, but I need to know about CPU temps and what to fixate on. I have 4 temp monitors on my CPU and I need to know which is the best to rely on and what is the highest temp. I should accept on the best monitor. The monitors are as follows:
1) ASUS Utility 2.19.07 Temp Probe - 28 C
2) Areogate II probe shoved into the heatsink center - 41.5 C
3) Thermaltake Xaser III "Skull" case monitor taped directly onto the bottom of the CPU - 55 C
4) BIOS hardware monitor - 57 C
the CPU itself is a Barton 3000, 166 FSB OC'd to 200x11.5 (I know, ignore the specs below).
The main reason I ask is because the wife was b****ing about the fan noise (It was loud, admittedly, but it didn't bother me) so I put a low noise and lower cfm fan in the case and now I am concerned about temps since I don't have the 5500 rpm, 44 db. fan drawing air across the CPU
1) ASUS Utility 2.19.07 Temp Probe - 28 C
2) Areogate II probe shoved into the heatsink center - 41.5 C
3) Thermaltake Xaser III "Skull" case monitor taped directly onto the bottom of the CPU - 55 C
4) BIOS hardware monitor - 57 C
the CPU itself is a Barton 3000, 166 FSB OC'd to 200x11.5 (I know, ignore the specs below).
The main reason I ask is because the wife was b****ing about the fan noise (It was loud, admittedly, but it didn't bother me) so I put a low noise and lower cfm fan in the case and now I am concerned about temps since I don't have the 5500 rpm, 44 db. fan drawing air across the CPU