Cpu and hard drive temperatures

Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 03:06:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:
Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

It depends on the programs you use to retrieve the hardware sensors' values.
How well it supports those various hardware sensor chips.

Although there's a case where the CPU temperature sensor chip on the
motherboard may be fried due to low durability. It happened on my now-gone
Iwill motherboard using the first model of Pentium 4 (IIRC, Willamette)
which is known for its high CPU temperature (at least 50C with stock fan, up
to 70C).

Judging from the values of your hardwares, I'd say that the program doesn't
do its job well, especially if your hardwares are old models.

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 03:06:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy wrote:
Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

It depends on the programs you use to retrieve the hardware sensors' values.
How well it supports those various hardware sensor chips.
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 03:06:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

It looks like your system board is really reporting in C, not F.
I am not sure about the hard drive. I did not know they had heat
sensors.

wrote:
On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 03:06:17 -0700 (PDT), Andy
wrote:

Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

It looks like your system board is really reporting in C, not F.
I am not sure about the hard drive. I did not know they had heat
sensors.

Hard drives are pretty amazing:

1) Temperature. They've had temperature sensors for some time.
Might be getting close to ten years. There were a few models
with a SMART temperature of "255", meaning the temperature
reading was garbage. But modern drives are pretty consistent on
having a working SMART-reported temperature value. As long as
you see the value "move", under appropriate stimulus, it's
likely to be a real sensor. If the room is "hot", and the room
is "cold", and the sensor reports the exact same temp all the
time, then it's a dud and not to be trusted.

Since the era of turning the PCB inwards, so you cannot see
the chips, there hasn't been an opportunity to hunt for
a "thermistor". I haven't had a drive failure recently,
so I could flip one of those boards over for a look.

2) Some recent drives, the press release reports the inclusion
of a humidity detector. I haven't seen details of whether this
is inside the HDA, or outside on the PCB. I would expect it's
outside, so staff can monitor environmental conditions (for
things like Google or RackSpace studies). Humidity was always
important to drive health, but it wasn't considered economical
to report it. I'm still waiting for a report of this seen in
the wild.

3) Drives have a shock sensor. There were some 2.5" drives which
detect "free-fall", but the overall response (park heads before
laptop hits the floor) required system board/OS help. The drive
did not park the heads on its own based on sensor input. So that
was a kind of G sensor I guess, mechanism unknown.

The 3.5" drives now, can also have a sensor. The purpose of the
sensor is to detect "warranty violating conditions". Not sure
of any details other than that. If you send a drive back for
"free warranty replacement", after dropping it on a concrete floor,
there is supposed to be some means for them to detect the
violation.

Of the three sensor types, temperature has an honored place in the
SMART table. The humidity one, it remains to be seen. We'll need an
up-to-date SMART readout utility, to even tell it is present. And
the shock one, not sure where that is pinned out or what form it takes.
It might only be accessible on some pads on the PCB, as it doesn't
need to be in SMART. And a warranty related shock sensor needs to work
when no power is present (so you can drop it on that concrete floor).
And those (non-electronic) sensors have been available for at least 25 years.

The bean counters will decide when and if to deploy stuff like that.
You'll notice hard drives, some have been arriving with desiccant
packs in the bag. And a recent purchase, there was no desiccant
present. So some features are "on a whim". I presume the
desiccant thing, was a warranty versus cost trade-off,
and the "study results are in". I'd prefer they left
the desiccant packs in there (I like a minty fresh product).

Paul

Andy wrote:
Anyone had any luck with programs that show CPU,HD temps,fan speeds ?

My graphics card is showing 37 F

AMD Cpu is 39 F

WD Drive at 93 F

Fan speeds of 1700 and 580 rpm

Andy

Speedfan.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan452.exe

The motherboard sensors used to be hand-calibrated by the
software developer. Now, I suspect there is an ACPI table
means to get some info for that purpose, reducing the
amount of messing about to get honest values.

Some sensor values arrive via SMART.

The GPU has a sensor, but I don't know what API
the value comes in through.

If you use a single utility, chances are the temperature
will be a consistent set of degrees_F or degrees_C on the
display.

You can get GPU temperature with GPU-Z.

You can get CPU temperature with CoreTemp.

You can get HDD temperature with the SMART display in HDTune.

So there are individual utilities if you want them.

Speedfan should give you a taste of lots of stuff. I never
use Speedfan for actually controlling fans, and just use
it for sensor readouts. You can select sensors and put them
in the graph, like this.

http://images.sftcdn.net/images/t_op...screenshot.png

Paul