probe placement recomendations ( And up my **** is not an option :)

[Stryker]

I went to Radioshack and purchased a thermometer with a probe. I have 333mhz P2 processer and am not sure where the best place is to put the probe for the most accurate reading. Should I place it towards the top of the processor, or the side opposite the cpu fan or as close to the bottom of the processor as I can?

[Roy]

The ideal place would be embeded in the heat sink dead center, in contact with the CPU. Once you find a place, do some comparisons between the probe and the bios temp report. Then use the difference as the offset to add to its readings.

[Stryker]

Thanks for the tip Roy

Stryker

[Shiznickle]

Nothing constructive to say. I just had to say that the title made me laugh. That was good.

Ben

[drojman]

If you drilled a hole in your heatsink, wouldn't that give you a hotspot in the middle of your cpu? And those radio shack temp guages have huge (at least when trying to use with alpha cooler) sensor on the end. I spent all morning today trying to get the thermistor out of the case. Nearly killed it except for good soldering skills.
Anyone know of a place to buy thermistors?

[jimbo9]

put mine center on the bottom of the cpu
it was that or drill the center of my alpha
not 100% accuate but gives you a good gauge
if your trying cpu or case modds