PC Hardware question

[babysimon]

kingginger1, conflux, anyone?

I've got fed up with my PC sounding like an aircraft waiting to take off, so today I braved Tottenham Court Road and came back with a temperature controlled CPU fan. This comes with a tiny cpu sensor that you're meant to attach to the underneath of the CPU. This is, to put it politely, fiddly. I assume I'm supposed to use the thermal glue? The trouble is, while the glue is undoubtedly a great thermal conductor, it isn't very sticky, and I couldn't really get it to work. So I just splodged quite a bit of glue on the underneath of the cpu, stuck the sensor on top of the cpu ZIF socket, put the cpu on top, and hoped.

So: is this how everyone does it, or is my PC about to die of overheating? I haevn't yet heard the fan spin up from its minimum speed, but then neither has my PC done an emergency shutdown.


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Comments

[conflux.livejournal.com]

I would have recommended getting a Zalman fan and setting the speed manually, with the aid of the built in processor temperature monitoring, as I don’t trust these sensor based CPU fan systems. Given the ambient room temperature is about as hot as it gets right now, then you would know it was as good as it needs to be. Anyway, it sounds like you did the best you could with a tricky sensor. What’s the CPU temperature look like now?

[babysimon]

Zalman (if that's the one you showed me ages ago) == too big. Case is badly designed and quite pokey inside.

How do I see the processor temperature? (While running Linux, if possible)...

[conflux.livejournal.com]

They do a smaller heat pipe one as well I think. Anyway, most mother boards today have a sensor built into the CPU socket. The mother board CD usually has some kind of monitoring program to display this temp but this will most likely be for windows. You can often see the CPU temp in the BIOS, though.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I've never made this go, but I think that this is what you need:

http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/lm-sensors.html

Heya

[kingginger.livejournal.com]

Not quite sure how I missed this post first time around (just looking back over your journal) - apologies for not replying sooner.

Errm - Firstly - With regards to current CPU temp -
Check the BIOS of your machine - it may have a temperature reporter somewhere around the CPU settings.

For instance, my Mobo (Asus TUCSL-2) has full reporting of CPU temperature, case temperature, fan speed of PSU / CPU & case fan all accessible via either the BIOS, the ASUSProbe or the iPanel on the front of my machine... (Also displays loads of other useful stuff, got a pic of it somewhere!)

If it has the equipment on MOBO - it may be able to tell you -
That depends on your current system & processor / mobo (what is it? - if you know).

Do you have the brand of the new fan / heat sink that you got?

My own processor - a Thermaltake Volcano 9 CoolMod is pretty much like that - And mine does just fine for fan speed - its not blown up on me yet - and it uses the same method -
By glue, BTW, did you mean thermal paste / silver paste? Or did you get a special "stick sensor to mobo glue"?

But that main thing is that as long as the thermal paste is applied okay to the top of the heat sink, you are going to be more or less okay...

If you run Intel I know that the CPU slows down if it over heats, (you can notice it in games etc).

Laterz

Jules

(apologies if this thread is now so old its irrelevant).