What heat sink are you using?

[Ben Pope]

But what I'd *really* like to know is what temp my 120-gig 7200 RPM SeaGate
Barracuda SATA HD is running at....

Everest (and MBM5) show the temperatures of my WD drives (WD360GD,
WD2500JD), and I'm fairly sure that of an IBM Deathstar GXP60 I had.

Ben

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

Per signmeuptoo:

What heat sink are *you* using with your system? What CPU fan? What is
your motherboard and CPU?

The one that came with the P4 Prescott CPU.
P4P800E-Deluxe.
Antec Sonata case.

Why did you choose what you did?

I read various opinions, seemed like Athlon was the logical choice for my needs,
but had some memory that I put in a PC at a client site that I wanted to be able
to use in my home PC when the job was over...and Athalon boards only have 3 mem
slots... so I went w/Pentium. The board was recommended by a couple of people
on the NGs I read. The case was recommended by http://www.buildsilentpc.com/
and it works as advertised: elegant and quiet.

What kind of temps are you getting, and what are you using to monitor those

Asus Probe says:

48 CPU
28 MB
CPU fan turning at 2,537.


But what I'd *really* like to know is what temp my 120-gig 7200 RPM SeaGate
Barracuda SATA HD is running at....

 

[Ben Pope]

Per Ben Pope:



Are they hardware/software bundles?

No, they are both software that read the SMBus, IBM and WD drives must
have a temperature sensor, and stick that info on that bus.

I might be completely wrong about the SMBus, it might be done a
different way, but they are capable of reading the drive temp, nonetheless.

http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en (home edition is fine)

When installed, it's under Computer->Sensor.

Everst gives you loads of info, generally very useful.

MBM5 has been discontinued due to a complete lack of information from
the motherboard manufacturers, resulting in a practically insurmountable
problem for the poor author trying to do us all a favour. It was an
excellent bit of software.

http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
If your drive is older and listed here:
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/mobolist.html

You might be in luck. Or it might work, anyway... if you know which
sensors you have and they are supported.

Ben

 

[Ben Pope]

Per Ben Pope:



Downloaded it (now *that* was a User Acceptance Agreement), fired it up, and it
seems tb working a-ok.

Thanks!

Glad you now know your drive temps... bet you weren't expecting to get
that fixed with your comment in this thread

Ben

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

Per Ben Pope:

Everest (and MBM5)

Are they hardware/software bundles?

 

[Ben Pope]

Per Ben Pope:



This might be the quickest, easiest fix in my experience....

I just noticed... there's something wrong with your clock... perhps
you're not at GMT -7?

Ben

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

Per Ben Pope:

I might be completely wrong about the SMBus, it might be done a
different way, but they are capable of reading the drive temp, nonetheless.

http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?lang=en (home edition is fine)

When installed, it's under Computer->Sensor.

Downloaded it (now *that* was a User Acceptance Agreement), fired it up, and it
seems tb working a-ok.

Thanks!

 

[(Pete Cresswell)]

Per Ben Pope:

Glad you now know your drive temps... bet you weren't expecting to get
that fixed with your comment in this thread

This might be the quickest, easiest fix in my experience....