Questions tagged [temperature]

Temperature, in hardware, refers to the degree or intensity of heat present in the hardware. Generally, excess heat is damaging to hardware which makes it necessary to monitor the temperature of hardware and take steps to reduce it.

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CPU core temp MUCH higher than package temp

The CPU core temperature is MUCH higher than the package. The core sometime reaches 105 degrees Celsious and the package barely reaches 60 Celsious. Why is that? Will this damage my CPU? I got an AMD ...
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How can I make Speedfan run automatically when the PC starts?

I tweaked the fan curve on my case fan because it runs at 100% when I am gaming. So I made it run at a max of 80%, which is MUCH more quieter, and it doesn't seem to have any impact on the max ...
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How can I shut off my fans on low temperatures?

I want to have the best of both this worlds. Passive and active cooling. Preferably as low budget as it can go. My mainboard is only allowing me to spin down my CPU fan to 12.5%. I am looking for a ...
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Is it low power input to GPU or thermal throttling actually or something else?

I have Dell i7 8850U laptop with 4GB 940MX GPU. It was heating probably more than normal (CPU cores around 95+ °C, GPU 78°C) during playing games like GTA V. And my GPU core clock won't go above 405 ...
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My PC restart when playing games, not sure what happen

I have a problem with my PC and I can't figure out what can be wrong. If I am playing games, the PC will restart after 30-40 minutes of gaming. Here's a picture of the temperatures and the voltages ...
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USB drive gets hot/warm even when computer is turned off (but power supply is plugged in)

I noticed something weird today. I left my USB drive (SANDISK) on my desktop computer. When I unplug the USB after a few days, I noticed that the USB drive is warm. (I didn't turn the computer on at ...
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Toshiba Satellite L655 Fan Not Running

A friend of mine has a Toshiba Satellite L655 laptop with an Intel Pentium processor. After about an hour of use, or when a particularly resource-intensive program is being used, the machine will ...
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How to correctly get the temperature of any CPU in Linux?

What I need? I am creating a software and I need to obtain the temperature of any CPU (x86_64), either through reading files, executing some api written in C or executing some command with or without ...
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Components Damaged Due to CPU Overheating?

Recently, I have been having odd issues on my computer. Occasionally (maybe 40% of the time) when I start it up from being fully shut down, the right audio channel is completely silent (I have tested ...
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How to convert sensor SPI/I2C output to serial (RS-232)? [closed]

I have a home automation project which requires me to connect small, temperature/GPS sensor boards (normally used in Arduino/Pico project and output to SPI/I2C) to an industrial controller which uses ...
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Battery "connected but not charging" after temperature spike

My laptop (Avell B155 Fire V3) was accidentally transported while turned on. After noticing it was still on in the backpack it was immediately powered off (it was working "normally" from the battery ...
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What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?

Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually traced it to random ...
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Do MSI variants of RTX 3060Ti have especially bad temperatures

I recently bought an MSI RTX 3060Ti, it has 2 month warranty left. I am not sure how much is it used. I use 2K monitor 144Hz display. Max temperature on FurMark is 76 and when playing games, the ...
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Can I change thermal shutdown into sleep or disable altogether?

I am having some overheating problems with my DELL XPS 13 9310 up to the point that it shuts down (not so) gracefully (with the "Windows is shutting down" screen) - point is, it doesn't ...
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PC overheating at very low CPU usage

My PC has started overheating really quickly while seemingly maintaining low CPU usage. In idle it usually sits around 50-60°C and maintains a temperature around 70-80°C while doing simple things. ...
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Is it a good approximation to say that the CPU temperature increases linearly with the room temperature? (passive heatsink)

I need to use an embedded computer outdoors, and I don't know how the CPU temperature will change according to the outdoor temperature. What would be a good approximation? For example. If my CPU works ...
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How can I control my fans with SpeedFan? Doesn't show anything

I have a problem. My laptop gets really hot every time... Last time it was around 120 degrees. I need to control my fans with SpeedFan. But the problem is that my laptop doesn't see the fans. My ...
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CPU-core temperature rising quickly since switching to Linux

Ever since switching to Linux from windows my fans have been going faster overall, especially when using a lot of RAM. I changed fan-settings and now it seems like my CPU-core temperature rises ...
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Odd CPU Throttling Issue

Just got a Thinkpad P15s (Laptop), and I'm experiencing a very odd issuing with the CPU throttling under heavy load and low temperatures. This can last anywhere from 1 minute-10 minute, where ...
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Motherboard temperature reaches 124° C?

This is a brand new PC build (only a few days old.) There are plenty of fans in the case, but after a few hours of playing Skyrim, this is what Speccy reports: My usual motherboard idle temperature ...
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Constant temperature fluctuation for a particular core on an Intel i7-9750H CPU

I have a MSI GE75-9SG laptop with an Intel i7-9750H processor and RTX 2080 (non Max-Q) GPU. I just did a clean install of Windows 11 21H2 (Build: 22000.593) I have Nicehash QuickMiner running for a ...
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SSD temperature increment when switch IDE to AHCI

I have a notebook with a Kingston KC600 256GB SSD inside. I had it running in IDE mode, so it was limited to 400 MB/s, but it had 30 ºC when no usage, and 40 ºC at full usage. Now i switched it to ...
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Does wrong CPU heat sensor reading possible?

I've got Dell Inspiron 15 5593 Intel® Core™ i5-1035G1 Processor (6MB Cache, 1.0GHz up to 3.9 GHz), when i run two node applications and CPU usage got higher then fan runs full steam. Then i used CPU ...
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Cooling problems with my ASUS Zenbook pro 15 UX580 after fresh install

I recently reinstalled a fresh WIN10 installation on my Zenbook and caught some heating issues. I used the official drivers from the asus site. The only hardware mortification was an update to the M.2 ...
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Identify mechanism thats disconnecting monitor

I have a Dell Optiplex 7070 running Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, with 2 monitors connected via DisplayPort. Under normal operation (RDC, Firefox, Video Streaming), both monitors remain connected and the CPU ...
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CPU / GPU temperature incredibly high in idle mode on Windows, but not on Linux

I have a pretty old HP Pavilion 17-e026sg notebook (AMD A10-5750 APU with AMD Radeon 8670M + Radeon HD8650G, probably around 10-12 years old). Since the beginning, the temperature has always been way ...
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How to run a program with administrator privileges on user login under Windows 10 Pro?

I would like to run a task to monitor CPU temperature while I am logged into my regular working account, which does not have admin privileges. However, admin privileges are required to read the CPU ...
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AMD Ryzen 9 5950x Temperature too look out for

My specs are: AMD Ryzen 9 5950x Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080TI 64GB RAM (CORSAIR RGB) With this i have two Noctua NF-P12 fans and 1x Noctua NH-D15 fan for the processor Given these specs i want to look ...
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How to prevent OS override of thermal trip points in Bios

Motivation I noticed that my laptop is getting very hot in Linux (Ubuntu) but less so in Windows. (I have dual boot) I also noticed that my fan seems to run quite slowly in Linux, so the fan speed is ...
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"/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/" shows 5 core temps despite being on a quad-core

I am doing some bash scripting for custom polybar temperature monitoring, however when I run ls /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon2/, I get files for temp1 - temp5, even though I am using an ...
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Should the temperature spikes with my new 2020 MacBook Pro be a concern?

mac overview and temperature readings from opening xcode/android studio/launching app It only spikes for a short time when opening programs, is that okay? I'm using Intel Power Gadget to read the temp....
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Options for accessing DDR4 DRAM memory temperature sensors?

Are there linux console tools for accessing DDR4 DRAM temperature sensors on module?
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What are dangerous motherboard operating temperatures?

There are five motherboard temperature sensors for my PC, according to HW Monitor. Two of these, called TZ00 and TZ01, are always at 28C and 30C respectively, no matter what. I am inclined to believe ...
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Windows 10 PC crashes following Kernel-Power Event ID 125

Every now and then (perhaps once a day) my PC running Windows 10 randomly crashes to a black screen. When this happens, the CPU fan ramps up to full speed until I manually reboot. This doesn't seem to ...
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Using the 'Performance Mode' on my HP Envy 13t Laptop

I have an HP Envy 13t (2019 edition). My laptop has an Intel i7 chip with 8 GB of RAM. There are settings given in HP Command Center - a Recommended, Performance and Comfort mode. My temps run 50-60 ...
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Is my CPU overheating?

I was advised to use 'System Stability Test' to check up on My CPU. But I'm not sure I understand the results so far! The program says the CPU is overheating but the average temps seem to be okay? I ...
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Temp1 overheat SpeedFan - 97°C

I have HP Omen 17 inch, which I believe I bought 2 years ago. I cleaned it several times the last one was 2 weeks ago. The thermal paste haven't been changed since I bought it. I also have IETS GT300 ...
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SuperMicro GPU temperature-based fan control

After a search for the best GPU for my budget, I landed on the older K80 due to its attractive VRAM/$ ratio. However, the K80 is a bit quirky as it is a sort of a 2-in-1 card and is passively cooled - ...
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Nvidia Quadro 4000 at VERY high idle temperature

My Nvidia Quadro 4000 is running at ~70°C (idle, GPU have 0,1% load) in a very cold environment (server room with air conditioning). Is that normal? How can I fix this? The card is not covered by ...
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Running my laptop without CPU fan for i7 3630M for 24-hour period under mostly light use - what could go wrong? [closed]

My Lenovo laptop (Y500 I believe) has been bugging the living daylights out of me for months. The CPU fan kept going wild, spinning unpredictably, making a horrible noise, and actually slowing my PC ...
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How to find the source of a burning smell in my computer?

Recently I find small unpleasant smell (like burning smell) from my desktop computer, not always, but from time to time. I don't know where it is from, but as I turn off the computer and sniff closely ...
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GPU Troubleshooting BSOD on Windows10

Description I have a RTX 3090 SuprimX. I mine ETH with relative low temps, GPU max temp is 52 and HotSpot is 62-63. The problem is my backplate, now that the heatwave came and the summer is on I get ...
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CPU temperature too high but fan not running at max speed

My processor fan never runs on full speed event though my processor temperature is going so high. I am using HWMonitor (also speedfan) to record temperatures and my temperature readings in normal are ...
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Lenovo T430 temperature issues? Fan control for Linux?

> sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +63.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 0: +54.0°C (high = +87.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) Core 1: +64.0°C (high =...
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Can't find the shutdown temperature thresholds in my UEFI BIOS

For many years already, BIOS'es have had the feature of forcing a system shutdown if the temperature of certain components goes over some threshold. Well, I'm looking for this feature on my Asus Z170 ...
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Where is the Hard Drive Temperature Flow Sensor physically located?

I have two Seagate hard drives exactly the same model, same size and from the same batch. Both of them pass with flying colours using Seagate Tools, Smart Test OK DST Test OK Short Generic OK Long ...
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Is a "System Temperature" of 51 degC (123 degF) normal / OK?

My reported System Temperature (when idle) is considerably higher than all other reported temps on my (new) machine. When Sys Temp is 51C, other reported temps are: GPU is 36C CPU is 27C HD0(SSD) is ...
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Safe temperature for CPU under constant load

I have an AMD Ryzen 3600 and decided to run BOINC on my PC when I'm not using it, the thing is, I want to contribute to the science projects but I don't want to ruin my computer in the process and the ...
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CPU temperature reaches 100 degree on stress when plugged in

My laptop runs fine when using battery and plugged in while normal use. But whenever I try to load some heavy software like android studio or install a game or run a game. The temperature shoots up to ...
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Is there any issue to motherboard sensor if i always use temp sensor app like openhwminotor?

I always minimise openhwmonitor which gives temp sensor readings. Is there any problem to my motherboard or is it stress system if i do it????

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