Temperature sensor placement

[JakubOCD]

I picked up a fan controller (bitfenix recon) today and I was wondering where I should put the temperature sensors?

[MicroApple911]

Intake, exhaust, HDD cage, ram, near the CPU, near the Graphics Card and PSU? Thats two more options than there are sensors.. hope I helped

[Dragon_Cannon]

If your limited to the amount of sensor to choose from then pick the ones that are most important

in order of general importance

- CPU

- GPU

- PSU

- Intake

- HDD

- RAM

- Exhaust

[Money]

Definitely begin with the CPU and GPU. Those are the hottest components in your case and the ones that should be monitored the closest.

[LimeDk]

i would say start with CPU,GPU NB, SB

[Whaler_99]

Problem with Thermal sensors and new chip design - you cannot really get the sensor anywhere near the core component generating the heat, in the case of a CPU or GPU. I would say attach one to the exaust area of your CPU cooler. If it gets to hot, ramp up CPU and intake fans. Maybe one near exhaust on GPU cooler? If it gets to hot, ramp up intake and side intake fans?

[Metallurgico]

I use Aida64 to monitor CPU, GPU and HDDs, while NZXT Sentry LXE to monitor intake air, general case temps, power delivery, GPU air exhaust and HDDs air exhaust.

[JakubOCD]

I was also wondering if these tempertures are OK, when ever I play Far Cry 3, My CPU temperatures get up to 74*C and my GeForce GTS 250 gets up to 98*C. Are those too high? I'll be putting an intake right where the graphics card sits this weekend to help with the cooling.

[Ghost]

The only one you can measure well is the temp of air.

So

- Intake

- Intake 2 (from ground possible)

- CPU cooler (Check how hot the metal is)

- Exhaust (on GPU)

- Exhaust 2 (on top of the case)

- Exhaust 3 (back of case)

That should give you the most valuable data telling you what fan speeds need to be increased.

[LeeJC73]

I would place them back in the box within which your fan controller was delivered. They will provide you nothing meaningful.

Yeah you can manage the fan curves off them to some extent but getting them anywhere near your heat creating components is an impossible task.

Use something like HWMonitor to check the temps of your system then load the system Prime95/Memtest whatever and set your fans manually to a speed that your comfortable with on both noise and cooling function.

[dav1257]

I use a Kazemaster ace and my advice would be that the temp sensors are almost completely useless.

As Whaler sez u cannot place sensors near core components that actually generete the most heat ie. CPU, GPU. U can place sensors in certain areas in and around but the temps u are recording wont really tell u anythin particulary useful.

A sensor to tell u the ambient temp in the case may be ok but not really that important.

What type of MOBO do u have? I just use the software in that to monitor CPU and i use EVGA precision x for GPU.

All other temps r really not that important