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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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Thermal sensor location and adhesive

I bought a DIY computer over Christmas (I bought all the parts and hooked it together myself). The mid-tower case I got (this one, in blue) has three thermal sensors that need to be attached at ...
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Is it bad to have a computer running at maximum temperature for a long period of time? [duplicate]

I'm having a Macbook pro 15" 2012 model here and I remember the past when I gamed on my Macbook- specifically World of Warcraft. When I played this game my Macbook went from a passive ~55 degrees C to ...
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Can ESXi read CPU temperatures (and report them to Observium)? (Poweredge 1950 Gen 3)

Currently running ESXi 5.5, Poweredge 1950 Gen 3 with dual Xeon E5410's at 2.33GHz. As far as I can tell, ESXi does not report CPU temperature anywhere. Here is the health page on ESXi vSphere: So ...
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Laptop shuts down because of heat though new fan, 50°C and not in Linux

I have a Dell Studio 1558 notebook that has worked for years. I have cleaned it up once or twice a year (you have to remove the motherboard to access the fan and remove the dust between the fan and ...
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Sudden massive system temperature spike

I was having a problem with my computer instantly shutting down while playing graphic intensive games with my new GPU. It was suggested that I use a temp monitor bc overheating was suspect. While ...
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Boot issues and choppy PC

Yesterday, when turning on my PC, it got stuck on a black screen while booting. So I pressed the reset button to restart it and then it gave me some error telling me to insert system drive and restart....
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Permissions - could not execute temp folder - dropbox and java applications

So I was having an issue with multiple application on my windows 8 machine. Dropbox would not start, or run on my admin user. I also run a Java application called "Five9" and it was having issues ...
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Sudden rise in temperature of new hard drive

I recently (about two weeks ago) got a new hard drive for backups. It's a 3TB WD Green drive and operates externally, in a separate enclosure, connected via eSATA to my Linux home server. What I'm ...
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Too High Computer Conditions?

CPU Intel Core i3 2330M @ 2.20GHz 73 °C Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology Storage 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10JPVX-22JC3T0 (SATA) 45 °C Should I be worried about this? Nothing is ...
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How to tell if gpu is overheating without sensor

I just took apart my dell xps m1210 to re-apply thermal paste. I used thermal PASTE instead of a thermal PAD on the gpu, but I think it should work fine. Even so, I worry about weather the gpu is ...
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Output of sensors on laptop

My Dell Laptop is suddenly running at around 70F according to sensors while previously it was at around 60. This is under a medium amount of load, both temps. Why? How would I cool it down?
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GPU is running at a high temperature even after cleaning it with a compressed air can?

So before cleaning my computer, my GPU ran at a temperature between 90 and 100 degrees Celsius. Now that I cleaned my computer with a compressed air can, my GPU is running at a temperature of 86 ...
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Can a hot PCI adapter slow down the computer?

Using the "watch sensors" command in Fedora, I see that while the temperature of the CPU's are normal (70 degrees at most), the PCI easily exceeds 90 degrees (celcius, of course.) Once the PCI gets ...
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Built a PC some months ago, facing automatic shutdown, temperature issue?

I built a PC some months ago, it worked fine, but now it's summer time and temperature is 45 °C here in Jaipur, India. When I start playing BF3 after 20-25 minutes my UPS starts beeping and system ...
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Excessive heat with Corsair H80i

I've recently purchased a Corsair H80i (liquid cooling), but the CPU temperatures are actually higher than with stock fan cooler. My build: CoolerMaster GX550W, AMD FX 6300, ECS GTX 560, Kingston 8GB ...
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Is a gradual increase in the reported GPU temperature a sign of impending hardware failure?

It's an uber old computer OS: Win 7 Pro M/B: P7P55 DE GPU: NVidia GEForce 8400 GS Cabinet: Antec with a single 120mm fan set at high-speed Security: MS Security Essentials Problem: ASUS ...
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CPU Cooling fan trouble on Notebook

I'm using lenovo IdeaPad Z370 I just cleaned my fan and replaced thermal paste but the temperature still heating. based on Psensors the temp very high: I checked the fan again, I keep the back ...
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Geforce 770 gtx reaching 95+ degrees

Hi guys! I've been playing Assassin's Creed IV a lot these days, I used nearly maximum video settings and my computer's temperature was looking good ( both CPU and GPU ). Yesterday I started playing ...
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How to check CPU temperature on BAMT (Debian)

How can I check CPU temperature on BAMT? BAMT is Debian based bitcoin/litecoin mining distribution (kernel is 2.6.32-41 32 bit version). I've tried with lm-sensors, every time I'm using, I'm ...
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why is my GPU temp a negative number?

when idling, the GPU (AMD Radeon HD 8570D) tends to list numbers around -3C. when it's running a 100% for a while it get up to 11C. is there some sort of math going on to get these numbers or does it ...
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Temperature sensors showing high CPU temps, CPU not super hot

(For monitoring heating I have used SpeedFan, Ai suite II (asus mobo software), RealTemp and my bios (on an Asus Gene IV Rampage)) SpeedFan says 100-120 C RealTemp says 30-80 C at idle (30 C ...
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how to send temperature DS9097 sensor data to apache and keep an archive of it

I want to show at my website this temperature readings data. USB DS18B20 with the prolific adaptor PL2303. instructions for Debian are: apt-get install digitemp digitemp_DS9097 -i -s /dev/ttyUSB0 ...
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Does the bios regulate temperature based on what cpu is installed?

I recently upgraded from an e8400 (intel dual 3.0) to a q9650 (quad 3.0). The original e8400 temperature at max load was 57 celcius. With the quad core it is now 71 C. I flashed a newer bios on and ...
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HP Mini 110 Pant Temp 4 Celcius (39 F)

Under the motherboard temperature, pant isnt returning a value that seems normal. Why is that? I am in a room that is about 75 F. On linux, with lm-sensors there is only a THRM reading and a core ...
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Average CPU core temperature of 60 °C is normal?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 running on an laptop with an Intel Core i5 and hybrid gpu. I set my OS to boot with the discrete GPU device turned off, so working with integrated GPU and both cores of my ...
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Macbook Pro - Removing Thermal Sensor, problems?

I'll try be brief. My macbook pro 2008 unibody, kept asking me to shut down, if you kept pressing cancel it would wait, and ask again... and repeat until it just turned it self off. After it would ...
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Intel Core i7-2670QM Overheating

Problem: I own an HP Pavilion dv7t-6b00 running the above processor. The TJ Max is set to 100°C, and it idles at around 66°C. I've tried applying two different types of thermal and have ...
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i5-2500K (3.3 GHz) processor with H80 water cooling on a P8Z68-V PRO overheating/CPU fan not found

I built my computer a while back, and I have had this type of issues on and off all the time. When my computer is actually loading Windows, it works like a charm. The idle temperature is 25-30 ...
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How to choose an upper CPU temperature limit?

I just wrote a script to throttle a heavy number-crunching program, to prevent the CPU from overheating. I can set any upper temperature limit, and successfully keep the CPU always below that limit. (...
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CPU Fan not working properly?

Recently I just built my own computer. However the temperature of my processor becomes very high and my CPU fan is not able to cool it off when I run multiple programs. MY CPU temperature can go as ...
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Central Processing System gets Hot

I have an Intel Desktop Board with an Intel Pentium D processor installed. My problem is that the processor stays warm when idle i.e. 55 degrees C . But under load the temperature rises drastically i....
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Nvidia GT 440 exceeds max temperature

I have an NVIDIA Geforce GT 440 installed on my system. A problem suddenly exists a few weeks ago whenever I play games such as C.O.D blackops, A. Creed 3 or even NBA 2k13 suddenly shutsdown my system ...
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MacBook Pro heat issue

I have a MacBook Pro 13" (exactly this one) and seems to me that it's heating pretty much. The temperature is usually 80°C, and sometimes goes up to 90°C while just taking back-up and some internet ...
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Can temperature change affect graphic card or monitor to change analog signal and cause blurry image?

My computer is located near the window, and I noticed that when I open my window, after a minute or two the picture on the screen often gets blurry and I have to press "auto" to make it sharp again. ...
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Laptop overclock

Is it usual to a laptop made by dell (inspiron N4050) with i5 processor have the processor running at 3.0 GHz without any overclock settings? The temperature surpass 80 ºC sometimes. Thank you.
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Asus MoBo Running At 90C

Today I built myself a low/mid range gaming rig, nothing complex just an i3 2100 with GTX 460. Everything went fine and I got Windows 7 installed. I installed Speccy (http://www.piriform.com/speccy) ...
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Asus Maximus IV CPU instant temperature reading 63+?

When I cold boot and check the CPU temperature in the BIOS it instantly says 63+ if I reset the CMOS and cold boot up again it will say 30-40+ but then when I restart again it will instantly say 63+ ...
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What log entries should I expect after an unexpected Mac Mini reboot?

My 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Mini suffers unexpected shut-downs from time to time. I suspect this is because it gets too hot - iStat Menu shows the CPU temperature reaching 98 C when it's working ...
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What is a good fan speed setting for an iMac8,1 with SL?

My computer is running warm, al sensor are around 30-50C at the end of the day. I installed smcFanControl, and set all three fans to max. At first a dust cloud came out of the top, and now it makes a ...
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Is there any evidence that running PC components at temperatures higher than +80c actually affect the lifespan of said components like CPU or GPU?

Many people say you should keep your computer hardware's temperature below 70-80c by claiming it increases longevity of hardware components. If that is really the case, then why hardware manufacturers ...
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GPU EVGA XC 2070 Super fans doesn't spin at idle

Just finished building my new PC, with a graphics card EVGA XC 2070 Super, and noticed that at idle, the GPU fans does not spin. With temperatures of about 47-50C. They do spin while booting, so I ...
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Extremely high motherboard temperature

Please see attached pictures of my current PC's temperature; especially the motherboard Temp #2 reading on the top line. A red blinking right appeared on its right side today for the first time, ...
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8700k Single Core Temperature Extremely High

I put together a PC yesterday, which went smoothly up until I loaded up Open Hardware Monitor to check the temperatures of each core on the CPU. The build used the following: i7-8700k CPU ASRock ...
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Critical temperature Asus n551jx

I got this asus n551jx machine, which comes with a pretty good setup of GPU (GTX950m), and CPU too (i7 4720hq). Therefore gaming is not a problem, and it's quite enjoyable! The only thing that scaries ...
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CPU temp is hitting 83 C (181 F) in BIOS: Normal?

My BIOS is reporting that my Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 on a Asus P5B Deluxe is hitting 83 C (181 F). No overclocking. I haven't done anything intensive at all. Just to check SpeedFan hits similar ...
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Heat sink Fan Operates At Full Speed Randomly

Normally the heat sink fan would run at full speed when I start the pc but only for few seconds and the sound is really audible at full speed then it would slow down and is silent from there on. But ...
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Why has my CPU suddenly started running hot?

I have an i7 920, zalman cnps9900 heatsink and fan, arctic silver thermal paste and gigabyte mb with no overclocking at the moment. I have three internal fans one push and 2 pull. but my cpu has ...
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Is 85C temperature normal for a threadripper CPU as shown in my bios screen? [closed]

My bios temp is showing me 85C for my cpu. Is this normal for an AMD threadripper?
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My Cpu Temperature shows higher temperature than normal. Why?

I built a AMD Ryzen 5 2400g. for first year it works fine. then it starts to create problem. My CPU fan stops working. instead of installing new CPU fan i install my old DC fan. so every time i boot ...
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At what temperature I should install another cooler for the processor?

I have a Intel dual core processor, code name Ivy Bridge, frequency ~3GHz, max TDP is 55.0W. I use Core Temp to monitor the temperature while all cores are at nearly 100% load. The temperature ...
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