[olug] Case Temp Sensors

[Joe Catanzaro]

So I took your advice and moved the sensor off the CPU, for the most part. 
Now, it's taped to the heat sink and the sensor is barely touching the edge 
of the CPU. And I taped the hard drive sensor to a chip on the bottom of 
the drive that was warmer than the rest of the drive. Without much of a 
workload on the PC, the CPU was at 113 F, AGP at 89 F, and HDD at 98 F. The 
CPU is an AMD 64 3000 and so far everything appears to be working fine.

Thanks for the help.



At 1/11/2005 08:38 AM Tuesday, Jay Swackhamer wrote:
>If the sensors are directly inbetween the CPU and heatsink, DONT power it
>on........ It will be lifting the heatsink and greatly decreasing the
>cooling potential.....
>
>If it is an AMD AthlonXP system, then the sensor could be placed on the
>top of the CPU card, with the tip touching the CPU core. Others may be
>better off placing the sensor in the open area underneath the cpu,
>carefully placing the wires(if they are the thin type) through the pins
>before seating the CPU.
>
>You need to have the sensor as close to touching the CPU/GPU cores,
>without being inbetween the core and heatsink. If you are inbetween the
>core and heatsink, thermal damage will happen.
>
>For the hard drive, you would just need to feel it for the warmest area,
>and tape the sensor down on a metal surface in that area.
>
>
> > I'm building a new PC and the case has temperature sensors for the CPU,
> > video card, and hard drive. I've never built a case with these. Where's
> > the
> > best place to attach these?
> >
> > Here's what I've done so far. I applied thermal grease to the CPU, stuck
> > the sensor on the top (on top, but towards the edge) of the CPU, and
> > affixed the heat sink/fan on top. For the video card, I removed the fan,
> > used the special scotch tape like stuff and taped the sensor on the heat
> > sink under the fan, and put the fan back on. And I really don't know where
> > to start with the hard drive. Any advice would be great. I probably won't
> > hit the power switch until I hear from you guys.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Catanzaro
> > joecatanzaro at cox.net
> >
> >
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Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net