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How do cpu temperature monitors work: is the sensor in the (amd) cpu, or
adjacent on the mobo?
If you switch to a new mother board, would you expect to see a
significant change?
I sold my athlon xp 1700 to a friend and we installed it. When I ran it,
it usually ran ~100 deg F. give or take a degree or two, or even a bit
colder in a chllly room (ecs k7s5a, 384mb, 40g hd cd &cdrom, mostly
surfing, with amd retail hs/fan.)
In his new machine, I was disturbed to see it go to 120 deg F. at first
start, however there are several things that may account for this: we
were in a warm room; perhaps in removing the cpu and amd thermal pad and
swtching to Radio Shack hs compound, maybe I worsened it; the case is
fan poor: cpu fan and antec 300 fan(s); high temperatures where noticed
in middle of W-XP load - maybe heavy work for the processor; also the
mobo monitor got much hotter than I'm used to seeing: 100 deg F. I
finally just removed the side panel, and after about an hour or so, both
the cpu and mobo had dropped to ~105.
Why all heat?
Pete
How do cpu temperature monitors work: is the sensor in the (amd) cpu, or
adjacent on the mobo?
If you switch to a new mother board, would you expect to see a
significant change?
I sold my athlon xp 1700 to a friend and we installed it. When I ran it,
it usually ran ~100 deg F. give or take a degree or two, or even a bit
colder in a chllly room (ecs k7s5a, 384mb, 40g hd cd &cdrom, mostly
surfing, with amd retail hs/fan.)
In his new machine, I was disturbed to see it go to 120 deg F. at first
start, however there are several things that may account for this: we
were in a warm room; perhaps in removing the cpu and amd thermal pad and
swtching to Radio Shack hs compound, maybe I worsened it; the case is
fan poor: cpu fan and antec 300 fan(s); high temperatures where noticed
in middle of W-XP load - maybe heavy work for the processor; also the
mobo monitor got much hotter than I'm used to seeing: 100 deg F. I
finally just removed the side panel, and after about an hour or so, both
the cpu and mobo had dropped to ~105.
Why all heat?
Pete