Dell's don't have the sensors enabled. Only way is to purchase an add-in probe that attaches to CPU and is wired to an external display.
Closest you can come is to use something like SpeedFan (free) which displays temp of hard drive in the system tray near the clock (assuming hard drive is SMART enabled), but SpeedFan can't control fan speeds on Dell desktop PCs. Go to www.almico.com
Some video card drivers, eg nvidia, report temp of the GPU on the video card and temp of ambient air around the card.
Rijko,
Don't know what PC you're using but on my Dimension 8400, latest SpeedFan (v4.31) does not show CPU temp, only hard drive temp.
As far as I know, SpeedFan cannot read CPU temps on any Dell system, unless Dell changed something in models that came after the 8400. This issue has been on the Dell forums for years, but I've yet to see somebody find software that reports CPU temps on a Dell. And SpeedFan can only control fan speeds on Dell laptops.
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Closest you can come is to use something like SpeedFan (free) which displays temp of hard drive in the system tray near the clock (assuming hard drive is SMART enabled), but SpeedFan can't control fan speeds on Dell desktop PCs. Go to www.almico.com
Some video card drivers, eg nvidia, report temp of the GPU on the video card and temp of ambient air around the card.
Ron
Message Edited by RoHe on 12-01-200612:20 PM
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Don't know what PC you're using but on my Dimension 8400, latest SpeedFan (v4.31) does not show CPU temp, only hard drive temp.
As far as I know, SpeedFan cannot read CPU temps on any Dell system, unless Dell changed something in models that came after the 8400. This issue has been on the Dell forums for years, but I've yet to see somebody find software that reports CPU temps on a Dell. And SpeedFan can only control fan speeds on Dell laptops.
Ron
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