Temperature of Pentium 3

[Zenskas]

Not sure if this should be in hardware or software hangout, but I have a 1000Mhz Pentium 3 EB socket 370 model on dell motherboard from an optiplex GX 150. Is there any program out there that can monitor my temps? Realtemp and hardware monitor don't work And the BIOS does not tell me anything at all.

I wanna know the temps so I can see if it is actually running cool enough in the small desktop factor optiplex GX 150 with no GPU or CPU fan.

Any help would be great, as I cannot find a program that tells me anything but the HDD temp. GPU temp would be good to know too

[Ponch]

No CPU fan on a PIII, I say no, no no.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

hwmonitor will tell you ONLY if the motherboard has a thermostat built in.

You can get a passive cooler that would work but they a really big. I wouldn't suggest going very far past boot without a fan\cooler these things get hot QUICK.

[Zenskas]

Haha I have been running with no CPU fan for a while. Got a heatsink from an old athlon XP 1700+ system (that died) which is twice the size as the stock intel one. Runs fine

I have made it as cool as possible...installed a northbridge heatsink even though it didn't really need one, cleaned out every spec of dust, lubed the one fan in the system, got a large heatsink on the graphics card, taken out floppy drive to allow more air to come in etc. Just wanted to know if there was a program to tell me the temps I'm running so that when the weather is hot I can see how hot the CPU is getting! The HDD idles at well under 20C because of the design of the case (the one fan in the system being right next to the HDD) so that is ok. The mobo does not have a temperature sensor as far as I know so it looks like I'm outta luck. Oh well thanks anyways!

[GrofLuigi]

With PCs of that era, I had great success with Motherboard monitor. (The original site of MBM seems to be down).

GL

Edited April 19, 2009 by GrofLuigi

[Zenskas]

Thanks for that will give it a try ASAP.

[Ponch]

An other software that shows T°: PCWizard.