Install Temp Probe?

ion · 06-September-03, 08:50 PM

Where is the best place to stick a thermal probe to the CPu. I have a P4 2.53b. The CPU has a heats spreader so i cant stick it next to the core. Help?

ZENNZZO · 06-September-03, 09:07 PM

I put mine to the back side with a piece of foam sticky tape. It insulates it from the board temp and is about 1-2C difference from the top of the CPU cooler...You might have to replace the wiring with a piece of wire from an old EIDE ribbon wire if yours is too thick...

ion · 06-September-03, 09:15 PM

Thanks.

lAnonymousl · 06-September-03, 09:44 PM

Under the core would probably be best depending on what kind of chip you have. Here is a guide, but be warned it isn't for the faint of heart:
http://www.procooling.com/articles/h..._temp_prob.php

AntiM · 06-September-03, 10:25 PM

Ouch I remember that guide. Hurts just to look at it. Better to use Zennzzo's suggestion of small wire. I use a probe from a Hardcano. It has very thin wires on the probe. I just cut a couple of very shallow valleys on the zip socket and widened them a bit with a triangular jewellers file.

No worries about ripping up a pin socket that way.

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06-September-03, 09:07 PM		#2 (permalink)
ZENNZZO Direct Cool Hoe	I put mine to the back side with a piece of foam sticky tape. It insulates it from the board temp and is about 1-2C difference from the top of the CPU cooler...You might have to replace the wiring with a piece of wire from an old EIDE ribbon wire if yours is too thick...

06-September-03, 09:15 PM		#3 (permalink)
ion Apex Techie II	Thanks.

06-September-03, 09:44 PM		#4 (permalink)
lAnonymousl The Who? Hoe	Under the core would probably be best depending on what kind of chip you have. Here is a guide, but be warned it isn't for the faint of heart: http://www.procooling.com/articles/h..._temp_prob.php

06-September-03, 10:25 PM		#5 (permalink)
AntiM Aqua Pimp	Ouch I remember that guide. Hurts just to look at it. Better to use Zennzzo's suggestion of small wire. I use a probe from a Hardcano. It has very thin wires on the probe. I just cut a couple of very shallow valleys on the zip socket and widened them a bit with a triangular jewellers file. No worries about ripping up a pin socket that way.