I’m looking for a program to monitor the temperatures of my pc and adjust the cooler speed and stuff. anyone know any good ones?
The thing is that I just got a new pc and the pc speaker starts beeping sounds when I play a game (oddly it does that a lot when I play GeneRally and not so much when I play doom3)
And lately I’ve been wondering around in BIOS and I enabled the pc-shut-down thingy when the cpu temperature gets to a certain point… (the alert-thingy was already on)
And today I was playing Generally :P, I heard a beep and shortly after that shut down :x
I turned it back on and checked the CPU temp in BIOS but it wasn’t enough to even alert me but I dunno… anyway… I need a program to monitor/adjust stuff!
**edit: Oh yes! It’s definitely overheating and the beeping sound is the alarm thingy… I was juts playing GeneRally when this thing started beeping like hell, I immediately rebooted and saw that the CPU temp was 70 (alarm state = 75)
GeneRally must be badly-made or something… that doesn’t happen when I play doom3 **
75C is really bad temperature. Check your intake and outtake of your computer. For monitoring software, consult your motherboard manufacture. Of the mobo’s site doesn’t have a monitor, Goggle the board for monitoring sofware and I guarentee you’ll find one. You might have to consider cleaning out your computer and especially the fan and heatsink your processor lays under. What’s the spec of your system?
This only happens when I play GeneRally … mostly … I think
I’ve got an AMD Athlon 2.2Ghz processor and Club 3d 9800Pro video card
Themotherboard is NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400
The cpu temp is usually at 60 I think (which is also kinda high but I think there’s no way I can cool it any more without buying a whole coooler system)
The whole thing should be clean cuz the pc is brand new … I dunno
Check out the program called ‘Mother Board Monitor’ at http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ . It has various monitoring things available, as well as some charts for average temps with certain motherboard/processor combinations.
It may be that one of your fans is sticking, or not up to speed and thus high temps which will cause all sorts of weird failures, with possible damage across hardware. Processor or North-Bridge fans can seem working, but not deliver enough cooling at high processor requirements. This is more often true with additional hardware components being installed without more cooling added, or just a really hot day bumping up ambient temperature inside your case beyond it’s cooling capacity. Processor overheat and reboot or stall can appear as hard drive/CD drive or video card errors as well.
You can change the speed of you fans (if it gets its power from the motherboard) and i have seen this program work on 3 different motherboard.
You can see what gets hot, and if it’s just your cpu then i would buy a better cpu cooler and if your case gets hot just add an other fan to your case. If both of then get hot…I wound bring it back the you guy who sold it a make him fix it
Yeah your mother board has to support speed ajustments, My one can’t do it too but my brothers motherboard one can
And standard cpu cooler suck most of the time
and not so much when I play doom3)
