Um... temperature sensors/probes...?

[Jedicake]

I got an LCD CPU temp and fan controller bay drive and it has 5 temperature probe/sensors, I'm assuming one of them is for the CPU... So where do I put it, what do I use to stick/hold it there, and where should I put the other probes

[Tea1337]

You could place it in the thermal paste between the cooler and CPU to get the most accurate temps

 

 

Don't put it there, I wasn't thinking

[Jedicake]

You could place it in the thermal paste between the cooler and CPU to get the most accurate temps

Wouldn't that screw with the direct contact of the heatsink?

[Tea1337]

Wouldn't that screw with the direct contact of the heatsink?

As long as the wire is small, and you just place in the metal, it should make a very very little difference

[xox]

Wouldn't that screw with the direct contact of the heatsink?

Yes, don't put it there. Like really. Put them in places to test things like case temperatures (somewhere inside your case), chipset heatsink temperatures (on the chipset heatsink) and ambient (on the intake fan grill).

[Jobobee]

I put my CPU one in the fins on my heatsink, same for GPU.

[Leonard]

You could place it in the thermal paste between the cooler and CPU to get the most accurate temps

You can't be serious.

 

Wouldn't that screw with the direct contact of the heatsink?

Yes it would.

[Tea1337]

You can't be serious.

 

It can be done without having a giant increase in temps, but it's probably best to put it off to the side

[HandsomeChow]

Well, the pressure from the mount would destroy the thermistor inside the probe itself. Literally squishing it. 

I recommend you use the DTS inside the CPU to monitor core temps and put one on the heatsink. Then calibrate it with offset to get the realtemp of the CPU. 

For the rest, you should monitor case ambient, air in, VRM temperature, chipset temperature. Those are the important components. 

Not sure how advance your fan controller is. But the Aquaero 5 and 6 series have an offset mode for you to calibrate your sensors which is convenient.