Monitoring Temperature

Take a look a RivaTuner to OC your video card (ATI or Nvidia). If you got the 6800 you can push it to a 6800GT. Careful on cooling as you do not want to be buying a new video card.

I am waiting for a better price on the 6600 as the 6800 is just too much $$$ for me.

Hi Dany.

I've got the same problem with my XPS Gen 3.
I can't see the CPU temperature.

I tried several software solutions but it can't see any temperatures ...
CPU Cool
Everest
Motherboard monitor
...


Nothing :(

Some help is welcome :)

Thanks.

I use MBM 5. Not sure it will work on your MB's though as it reads sensor chips on the MB. Worth a try though.

It would no work I have MBM5 and it doesent work, for some reason dell has it configure to a point that you can no acces the sensors. Let me know.

 

 Daniel B

You have no access to the sensors because there are no sensors.

No sensors.  So if the CPU, for example, reaches a critical temperature what happens?

It will throttle down and then shut off.  The CPU has internal censors.  You just can't access them.  Aftermarket motherboards have the sensors on the motherboard that reads the temps.  They don't get the data from the CPU.  That's one reason they are notoriously incorrect.

Thanks Daddyjaxx.  Well I guess that is what has happened to me twice in the last few days.  I was in both cases running a Simulator which is high in graphics and sound use.  The video just shut off and the sound card continued to produce garbled sound based on what it was previously playing.  A complete power off was necessary and then the system re-started with no apparent problems.