COMP TEMP MONITOR HOW TO

Ok, I know the temperature now, Is my CPU too hot? However this isn’t a very good method to measure your computer temperature because when your computer is in the BIOS your computer is doing nothing and therefore not generating the heat that is caused during normal computer use. Once you are in BIOS setup there will be an option called “Hardware Monitor” or “PC Health” section (mine was found under “Power > Hardware Monitor”). To get into your computers BIOS on the first screen you see press “Del” to enter setup, on some machines this may be F1, F2 or F10. Motherboard Monitor is useful because not only you can make it constantly show you the temperature in real time on your system tray, but you can set it up so that if the maximum temperature is reached an alarm will go off.Īn example of Motherboard Monitors temperature monitoring in the systemtray.Another way of checking your CPU temperature is to look in your computers BIOS. If there isn’t one on the CD (or you have since lost it) I recommend Motherboard Monitor which is freeware and can be found HERE. There are many good processor monitoring applications out there and it is most likely that there is one on the CD which came with your motherboard.

COMP TEMP MONITOR HOW TO

This article will show you how to monitor your processors temperature and tell you the maximum CPU temperature your PC should be running at.įirst of all, you need a CPU temperature monitoring program in order to measure what your current CPU temperature is. A lot of users frequently ask if their computers are running too hot and want to know their maximum temperature for their CPU is.

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