Placing CPU external sensor

[Optix]

Hi guys I just got some sort of Hardcano thingie with 3 temperature sensors and I wonder where is the best place to put the cpu sensor:

-under the cpu over those transistors (intel cpu)
-on the heatsink at the very bottom (volcano 7+)

Thanks

 

[I.M.O.G.]

A lot of people who actually use these sorts of things, place it so the trimmed tip of the sensor touches the side of the CPU die. Temp readings like this are notoriously bad though.

I would use the sensors to read inlet case temp, outlet case temp, and the air temp around your HDD's. The CPU temp readings from these sorts of sensors are just poor IMO, not to mention temps don't mean hardly squat.

 

[Optix]

So you say it's not advisable to place it anywhere on the cpu because of crap temp reading.
Well I got this stuff because my mobo (a MSI) reads completely crap temperatures for a celeron tualatin (like 65C load). There is no bios that fixes the thing so I figured out such thingie would solve the problem even if not 100% accurate but still somewhere there.

Thanks for your input

PS: can't place it near the cpu die because it's a tualatin

 

[archilochus]

You might try placing it on the back of the mobo, on the center of the socket, with thermal tape..I have my sensor from my Hardcano 9 on the center of the northbridge, attached with thermal tape..It reads about 1°C higher than my system temp reported by Speedfan..