Dell Dimension E510 Temp Monitoring?

[Boogityboo04]

I just got a Dimension E510 and have found it to be pretty un-moddable. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to check the temperature on one of these because it seems to have on sensor but no application seems to be able to access it.

 

[acoroian]

Well there is a way to check CPU temperature in the bios screen at bootup

Dell bios F2

But for real time monitoring i think maybe you should spend some money on a Phisical Temperature monitor

For example : http://www.xoxide.com/misccooling.html

Check out some other websites that have them maybe you can find one thats cheaper or it looks the way you want.

 

[Boogityboo04]

The Dell BIOS seems to be pretty severely restricted, there is no System Health information screen, or anything much else for that matter

 

[acoroian]

do you think a hardware monitor would be better than getting some software installed ?? (if its so restrictive its probbaly not going to let anything monitor it anyway)

Did you check the link i posted?

What do you think of that?

 

[LipsOfVenom]

http://www.stvsoft.com/ this is as good program to monitor temps from your desktop...it just reads from your BIOS, but hey, it saves u the trouble of restarting and hitting that hot key all the time

 

[Boogityboo04]

do you think a hardware monitor would be better than getting some software installed ?? (if its so restrictive its probbaly not going to let anything monitor it anyway)

Did you check the link i posted?

What do you think of that?

Yea, I like the hardware monitors, but at the moment I don't have the cash to buy one