It's beginning to trouble me that although there was capacity for plenty of upgrades when I bought it, like 256MB of 2GB possible RAM, and empty AGP slot and 4 empty PCI slots, the basic doesn't seem to designed for for much of that. I'm probabably not helping things a lot by running the PC on its side (motherboard lowest) for easier access to the motherboard, not that I'm doing much inside. Idling CPU seems to to 33C, about 10-13C above ambient.
In fact runnimng with side panel of doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to the temperature. I apologise for waffling on, but here it is: Go tell the designers at Compaq that :-D I'm sure they'd appreciate your advice.hold on, maybe you're one of them ? (it's obvious if can find a pic of MS-6577 motherboard) I doubt my PC has good airflow over the northdridge chip, it's right next to one side of the exhaust from the CPU heatsink (if the CPU h/s fan, the only one in the case, airflow perpendicular to the plane of the m/b, blows air down through the h/s and doesn,t suck it in through two sides of the h/s), and the airflow at that point is in the centre of the case in a direction perpendicular to the main external vent (hole) in the back of the case. I was thinkng I'd have to dangle a temperature sensing diode over whatever it was I wanted to get an idea of the temperature, or go to the trouble of modifying a heatsink (drilling a hole) to mount the same kind of device close to to chip ! Still, I imagine emissivity compensation is a bit tricky though. That is exactly the kind of device I was thinking of, I hadn't dreamed they were so cheap, and with laser sighting and adjustable emissivity compensation ! That's the technology used in thermal imaging devices. Nvidia GeForce 6200 graphics card in AGP slot. PSU - Octigen 300W model 10270PSOTG #'upgraded' from original Bestec 250W PSU ) Is there some program which might tell you, as there are other programs which can tell you the temperatures of other parts of your system ? Or would it need some kind of more direct thermometry.Ĭompaq Presario S5160UK DT261A under XP/SP3 What's the easiest way of estimating i's temperature ? This is I beleive two dies that are co-packaged into a single chip I'd like to determine the temperature of my Northbrdge Chipset.
Moderators - please move this thread to to the hardware or other forum if you think it would be more appropriate, at any future time (like if there are no useful responses after having been in Software for a week# I don't know the best sub-forum to put this in, but I'll start in software, as if software is relevant, it will provide the easiest solution.
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