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Posted by DrFrag on Fri Jun 17th at 9:31pm 2005

I feel nicely average after reading this thread (and I'm not talking about the goats and diapers, although I might as well be).

My Intel PC is set to alarm at 60C and shutdown at 70C. Every few months the alarm goes of during some heavy number crunching and I know it's time to clean the dust out of the CPU heatsink. My room seems to be particularly dusty. Big dust too, the kind you can pick up in one piece.

I've heard Athlons have a slightly lower temperature threshhold.





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Posted by satchmo on Fri Jun 17th at 11:09pm 2005

Hmm, I've peeked into my BIOS many times, but I don't think the ASUS A7N8X-E motherboard is internally equipped with an alarm. I could be wrong.

I can imagine the alarm feature can be quite handy.

But yes, the purpose of this thread is to make everyone feel good and secure about their own CPU temperatures. Oftentimes, the extreme techies from other forums can get fanatical about cooling. They aren't satisfied until their PC is water-cooled to 25 Celsius, so I know that's just not realistic or practical.




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Posted by $loth on Sat Jun 18th at 7:23am 2005

If you have an ASUS mobo, then with in you should get some drivers, one called asus probe, this can be used to monitor heat and you can set the alarm.




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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jun 18th at 3:25pm 2005

Thanks. I checked out ASUS Probe, but it's bloody 35MB. If it's not something I can set within the BIOS, I'd rather pass. I don't want to drain system resources to monitor temperature, especially when I never really had any problem with overheating.

I have SpeedFan, and I think I can set that to alarm too. But I'll live dangerously. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">



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Posted by Crono on Sat Jun 18th at 8:36pm 2005

Uh ... your computer already monitors the tempurature, so if there's some software thing it's just telling you what the values are. It's not as if it's purposfully checking all the time, if it's well written, it'll just sneak a peak at what the system already knows.

But, you can check your BIOS to see what the tempurature is, it's there, it has to be, take a nice long look.


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.



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Posted by satchmo on Sat Jun 18th at 11:02pm 2005

Oh yeah, the temperatures are in the BIOS. I knew that. But I was looking for an alarm feature from within the BIOS.

That's all right. I am pretty happy with the temperature my CPU is running anyways. I'll stop being so paranoid.




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Posted by $loth on Sun Jun 19th at 6:48am 2005

ASUS Probe show come on a disc with your motherboard with the drivers for the lan connector etc, it doesn't take up much system resources, you can leave it in the background whilst playing HL2 and set it to record temperatures.





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