Where to place Temp Sensors?

[sinticfury]

Well I recently purchased a Sentry LX and I am unsure how I should place my temp sensors. What I am trying to do is get them to show my CPU, GPU, NB, RAM, HDDs but I am unsure what to do. SHould I place the sensors between the waterblocks and the chip like in the TIM or should I place it around it

[WaterFlex]

Place one of them on the top of your CCD. Just for fun.

[Waterlogged]

Do not put them between anything that requires solid mounting for thermal transfer (such as CPU-block & GPU-block). If you do, the area I've circled will be crushed and render the probe worthless. Best place to put probes for chips is right at the very edge of the chips/blocks.

[rioja]

place one in res and another one to measure ambient
all other temps youll see from soft

[WaterFlex]

You can place one at the bottom of Pump also. Mine pump is 50-60 degrees always.

[astrodanco]

Okay, so what are the key areas that when monitored provide the most useful information? Perhaps we can rank them in priority order.

Most of us already have temperature probes built into our motherboards, CPU and GPU and hard drives so those are a given.

With the TMS-200 I have the capability to monitor up to ten temperatures. (I currently have two water temperature probes and ten air temperature probes, but only ten headers total in which to plug them). So where are the best locations in a typical case to deploy those probes?

So far (in this thread) I've heard that the bottom of the pump is useful to monitor. BTW, what does the temperature of the bottom on the pump tell us and why is that info useful?

Best locations for monitoring water temperatures? Before radiator and after radiator perhaps? (So as to see temperature drop across radiator?)

Best locations for monitoring air temperatures? Radiator fan input and radiator fan output? Front case fan input? Rear case fan exhaust? Power supply exhaust?

I guess I have a loss of imagination here as to what else might be useful to monitor...

[Navanod]

place one in res and another one to measure ambient
all other temps youll see from soft

The problem with soft is that its not always accurate...

Okay, so what are the key areas that when monitored provide the most useful information? Perhaps we can rank them in priority order.

Most of us already have temperature probes built into our motherboards, CPU and GPU and hard drives so those are a given.

For me in terms of decending priority:

1. CPU. But external temp probes would not show the actual core temps so thats kinda moot

2. RAMs. Especially between tightly packed ones where there's only 5mm from one stick to the next

3. Graphic card. Thing is, which part of the darn card? GPU temp can be seen in soft, but not sure if its accurate. And all those various RAMs?

4. NB

5. SB

So far (in this thread) I've heard that the bottom of the pump is useful to monitor. BTW, what does the temperature of the bottom on the pump tell us and why is that info useful?

I'm just as puzzled.I'm monitoring the pump water temp (using the spare port on the EK D5 top), but thats more of a "before rad" probe temp for me. I see no point in monitoring the exterior pump temp since most of the heat dump from the pump goes into the water.

Best locations for monitoring water temperatures? Before radiator and after radiator perhaps? (So as to see temperature drop across radiator?)

I'm doing that now. res-pump (with probe)-rad-probe-SB
To be honest, except during load testing, the temperatures are more or less the same. Even under load, there's only a brief period of 1 degree difference before it all equalizes again at equilibrium. Quite pointless IMHO.

Best locations for monitoring air temperatures? Radiator fan input and radiator fan output? Front case fan input? Rear case fan exhaust? Power supply exhaust?

That pretty much useful only to get an idea of the delta of either general case air vs ambient or rad exhaust vs ambient. All depends on what's of interest.
As for the PSU, I would rather stick a probe on the main heatsink inside and try to monitor the hottest component then simply measuring the exhaust air.

If I am given that many probes, I would also wanna monitor HDs and believe it or not, fan controllers (Kaze masters get really hot!) and CCFL inverters (just in case it gets really hot)

[AndreaBZ]

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