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To: steve harris who wrote (110778)	5/13/2000 11:18:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572158

steve, I don't know about Athlon, but Slot based Pentium has a place on the side of the Slot where you attach this sensor. Asus sells one already made: necxdirect.necx.com Joe

To: steve harris who wrote (110778)	5/13/2000 11:19:00 PM
From: Bruce Beverly	Respond to of 1572158

Steve, Ragarding the CPU temp - if I may interject. Pentium CPUs have a built-in diode die temp sensor; Maybe AMD CPUs do as well. Modern BIOS such as Award will show you the temperature. On bootup, go into the BIOS (hit delete key or whatever for your system). Usually it's in the power management section, under hardware monitor. The die temperature is much more telling than heat sink temp. For example, the Pentium III-500 is rated for 90 deg. C. I found that my CPU ran right at the limit, so I added an extra heat sink/fan that lowered the temp to 80 deg. C. The die temperature also depends on the amount of processing the CPU is doing the previous few minutes. Good luck. Bruce

To: steve harris who wrote (110778)	5/14/2000 10:04:00 AM
From: crazyoldman	Respond to of 1572158

Hello Steve, Re: The motherboard temperature after an hour is 31C. The cpu temperature (measured on the heatsink) is 37C. Thanks. I haven't bought a commercial thermistor but have been intending to get some. I do have a hand held unit with a remote thermistor on the end of a 8 ft cable. I was curious so I did a quick check a while back with that unit. My processor temperature was similar to yours, and like you, I just attached the thermistor to the heatsink/fan unit. Thanks for your earlier posting about making one's own temp probe. I had recently seen an article about "Rolling Your Temp Probe". k7v.com It gives the part # of a Radio Shack 10K thermistor...it costs about $2.00 but you provide your own connector and cable. Seems like we used to buy thermistors for a few cents from places like Jameco but that was many years ago <hehe>. BTW, the 0.18 micron 700 MHz processors are running about 10 degrees F cooler than the 0.25 micron 700 MHz processor(the 0.25's were really tampered/overclocked Athlon 500 MHz processors as per earlier post). Kindest regards, CrazyMan