Program to tell temperature of components?

[ProjectDan35]

Tomorrow.

 

[ProjectDan35]

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[Patonb]

Right nice looking.

A little tip. Uncase you 4/8 pin cpu power and run it under the front of your gpu, up to the plug.

You can see how I routed it under n thatr pic. It may even fit with the caseing.

 

[ProjectDan35]

Ah. Yes. I just went in there and did what you did.

I also spent some more time in there and moved every cable that comes out of the PSU, to behind the motherboard tray. So there is no cables in that whole corner - and no sleeving.

I also moved other cables and routed them behind the motherboard tray and to their ports.

I added a ****ty cellphone picture.

 

[townsbg]

How is that fan controller working out for you? I'm kind of interested in that.

 

[Xearo167]

Generally, the cooler the better. Without going through extreme measures it's unlikely you'll ever be able to get your CPU to be too cold. From my experience when I was monitoring my temps, 35 degrees C is a pretty low temp. For most processors, 95 ish degrees C is supposed to be the upper limit of functionality before you start getting problems. If you keep it below 85 C you should be fine, and I'd be really surprised if you ever have any issues running below 75 C. Of course, some processors might be different, but I'd guess those numbers are good for 99% or processors that aren't specifically built for higher temperature operation.

Those are for Intel CPU's.. Most amd processors, Especially the New Phenom II's melt at anything over 62C

 

[Xearo167]

Have you checked to see if your heat sink is seated properly on the processor? What about the thermal material? did you put enough/too much? Check in your bios to see if it has any fan speed management turned on. It could also be that it is not speeding the fan/s up until the temperature gets into the 50's

 

[ProjectDan35]

How is that fan controller working out for you? I'm kind of interested in that.

Works flawless. The brightness of the lights in the knobs adjusts to how fast the fan is spinning. The lights turn off when the knob is off.

 

[ProjectDan35]

Have you checked to see if your heat sink is seated properly on the processor? What about the thermal material? did you put enough/too much? Check in your bios to see if it has any fan speed management turned on. It could also be that it is not speeding the fan/s up until the temperature gets into the 50's

The heat sink is definitely seated right. And I used a rice size to a pea size amount of Tuniq TX 2.

I've reseated it, cleaned it, and added new TIM 3 times now, no change.


Hmmmm. Bios........ I don't see why the fan wouldn't adjust, It's a 4 pin fan header and a 4 pin fan.

 

[Xearo167]

I thought you said you were using a 3-pin fan on a 4-pin header.. Humm must have lost track somewhere.
None the less. A rice size drop 0.o I know you are only supposed to use a small amount but rice size? I used about the size of a thumb tack head. And I have no issues and nothing *Bleeds out* on the sides of the cpu. Putting too little won't provide sufficient enough thermal conductivity. Enlighten me as I am still learning things :D

 

[ProjectDan35]

Here's a picture I just took of the cable management I did yesterday. This is pretty much the best I can get it with the set up I have. I've seen others where there isn't one cable showing except the 20+4pin mobo connection. I don't know how they do that

There is absolutely no where for the wire going from the rear fan to hide, it won't fit behind the motherboard tray so It just has to hang across the case. -__-

 

[Xearo167]

They usually use the space behind the main board bracket, providing the power supply has long enough wires. and alot of times I have seen people make custom sleeving to match the color of the case to hide wires to :P
all in all looks better than mine right now :D at least you can see in your LMFAO

 

[ProjectDan35]

Doing the full on sleeving looks like a pain in the ass, between removing the ends, shrink tubing it, and then sleeving it. I just don't like the removing the connections part.

 

[Xearo167]

Haha Yeah I feel ya man.. it is a pain. I recently tried to do the same with mine.. Sadly I failed horrifically.

 

[Patonb]

I use rice all the time, and once i remove the hsf, i find complete coverage.

Actually, using as little as possible is best. Youre trying to fill in micro-scratches in the cpu and hsf. The paste provides an intermediate for heat, and is not as good as the metal f the cpu or hsf.

Its not the paste, but the metal additives in the goo, so to much goo slows heat.

 

[Xearo167]

then maybe I should lap mine because Rice size just don't cut it for me :P:eek:

 

[ProjectDan35]

Haha, subtract a half a grain of rice size from the pea size and that's what I put.

 

[Xearo167]

SO a dot
lol sorry half out of it at the moment.