How to check CPU temp without exiting to BIOS?
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How to check CPU temp without exiting to BIOS?
I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9-RH socket 939 board. No tool such as ASUS probe came with the box. Searched SPCR but caught no fish. Anybody, please?
If your motherboard has the appropiate sensors then you can access them with several freeware utilities. I would suggest speedfan from www.almico.com. It also provides the possibility to control your fans
On the Gigabyte site you can find EasyTune5. I'm not sure if it works on all Gigabyte mobos, but on my GA-965P-DQ6 it does show CPU and system temps.
However, the displayed system temps are 5C lower than real ones, measured with a thermal probe touching the base of the chipset heatsink.
EasyTune5 eats an outrageous ~100MB of memory and it looks toyish.
However, the displayed system temps are 5C lower than real ones, measured with a thermal probe touching the base of the chipset heatsink.
EasyTune5 eats an outrageous ~100MB of memory and it looks toyish.
If you don't want to use speedfan, nor the gigabyte utility, you have other interesting alternative, motherboard monitor:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
However it could be a little old and newer motherboards could not be supported.
You can use coretemp too, and other option that comes to my mind is RMClock which have other uses too.
Probably coretemp is the smaller utility to do the job. And it gives the core temp of the CPU which is the most accurate reading.
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
However it could be a little old and newer motherboards could not be supported.
You can use coretemp too, and other option that comes to my mind is RMClock which have other uses too.
Probably coretemp is the smaller utility to do the job. And it gives the core temp of the CPU which is the most accurate reading.