After a fair amount of poking around, I believe that I have effectively determined that my current motherboard does NOT have a health monitor chip on it, so I have no real way to monitor the CPU temp or fan speeds on it. I'm running a Celeron II 600@927 on it at the moment, with aspirations of pushing it up over 1Gig when my MSI Slocket gets here in a few days (the MoBo is has both a socket 370 and a slot 1, but no bios voltage adjustments- the CPU is currently in the socket). I'm using a FOP-32 with the 80mm fan hack, and I've felt all around the HSF after shutting the computer down, and it has always felt cool- almost cold. I lapped the HSF fairly well and the CPU core slightly (enough to get the blue coating off the metal), and am using Arctic Silver 2 between the two. Should I be looking into finding some way to monitor the temperatures, or should I be fairly safe as long as I make sure the case has good circulation? Thanks!
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No Healh Monitor
- Thread starter Ashyukun
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The best you could probably do is to get an external temp monitor (something from radio shack or a digital doc) and tape the thermal probe as close to the CPU core as you can (on the HeatSink base). And use this to get an estimated CPU temp.
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could one of those sensors be conected to the internal thermal monitor by attching the wires to the 2 pins on the chip which the reading is taken from (I have a datasheet somewhere with the pin numbers)
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Hmmm. The Digital Doc looks like it would be about what I'd be looking for, but it costs around $50... if I'm going to have to spend that much to get the temperature monitoring, it would almost be worth my simply getting another motherboard.
I'm also curious as to whether people think that I'll really -need- the temperature monitoring- I've felt the heatsink immediately after shutting the computer off, and it's never even felt warm. My current CPU (OEM cC0 Cel. II 600) is running at 927 at stock voltage (1.7v), so I'm hoping that i won't have to bump the voltage too far to get it up over a gig (112fsb). Is it likely to be generating enough heat that I'll have to be worrying about monitoring the temperature?
I'm also curious as to whether people think that I'll really -need- the temperature monitoring- I've felt the heatsink immediately after shutting the computer off, and it's never even felt warm. My current CPU (OEM cC0 Cel. II 600) is running at 927 at stock voltage (1.7v), so I'm hoping that i won't have to bump the voltage too far to get it up over a gig (112fsb). Is it likely to be generating enough heat that I'll have to be worrying about monitoring the temperature?
