best place for temp probe?

[MaRtIe]

i have bought a temp probe for my winchester and my DD RBX, i noticed placing the temp probe on the IHS causes bad contact, how do i get around this?

[saratoga]

Side of the IHS or on the back of the chip. That or get a diode reader and use the built in AMD probe.

[MaRtIe]

thanks, how acurate will it be on the side of the ihs?

[MaxxxRacer]

you cant put it on the back of the chip. its a socket 939 there is no room.. the only placey ou can put it is on the side of the ihs. which in all honest is a bad palce to put it as its horribly innacurate. Martie, in short ther is no good place to put the probe on 939 systems..

[nikhsub1]

you cant put it on the back of the chip. its a socket 939 there is no room.. the only placey ou can put it is on the side of the ihs. which in all honest is a bad palce to put it as its horribly innacurate. Martie, in short ther is no good place to put the probe on 939 systems..

There is no good place for an external probe on ANY CPU period. As Nevin from Arctic Silver would say; "Do you place a probe on the door of your oven or refrigerator to take it's internal temp?" Same applies to CPU's. Even if you got a probe on the core of the CPU it would not tell you the true temp of the internal core.

[MaRtIe]

aww.. i have a feeling my onboard msi temps are lieing to me. i set it to shut down at 60C and it went to 65 under load and didnt shut down, my water temp is 19C.. so i have no way of seing what the temp is

[MaxxxRacer]

oh. I didnt know u were running this board. Dont listen to the temps it gives. At stock speed it says with my cooling that im getting 55-58C on load temps. It just lies up the butt.

The Neo2's are natorious for being innacurate in reading temps.. Just go by whats stable and screw the temps... I gave up a while ago. I used to run mbm5 all the time.. Now with my neo2 it hasnt seen the light of day in about a month.

[Craig]

The great mystery of cooling.....how hot is that d#@*ed chip? The world wonders......but they aren't tell'n......LOL.

I doubt any chip maker is ever going to. They fear the reaction to the truth IMO.

Oven & frig doors indeed.....LOL! !

[MaxxxRacer]

craig, or you can dump the entire computer into a vat of ln2 and not care about temps.. lol.. no account for your computer completely breaking...

[MaRtIe]

well the water temp is. 19c tested with 4 mercury temp monitors. but i know msi;s sensors are bs. because it says my mobo is -5C

[MaxxxRacer]

ROFL. -5c... damn man u got some good air cooling on that nb... whatcha using, magic??

[MaRtIe]

hehehe i must be heh , maxx another thing. should i get my winni game stable for the games i play you think? i hate prime

[MaxxxRacer]

prime is pretty annoying... i say stable for what you do with the comp.. but for hells sake turn on prime before u got to bed and see what happens..

[JDizzle]

Yea I basically bought my fan controller so I could read temps back when I was still using Socket A. Now that I've upgraded I really have no use for this thing.

[MaRtIe]

i took maxxracers advice and pritty much egnored the bs temps and just touched the backplate and just used it till i saw instability, wich i didnt. and it cant be bad with water anyway. now the probe is on my 6600GT