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Old 08-22-2007, 09:04 PM   #1
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Using a Temperature Display?
I am doing my first build and i have everything ready to go hardware wise, but i dont know what to do with the LED temperature display. i saw somewhere on here to put the sensor by the cpu, but i have no idea what to do with it. how do i power it and where am i supposed to put the orange sensor?
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Old 08-22-2007, 10:52 PM   #2
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Welcome to PCMech. Is the display / sensor setup part of your case, or was it a separate purchase? What make / model?
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Old 08-22-2007, 10:54 PM   #3
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Hi TippyP8ntball and Welcome to pcmech. First off, what are your computer specs? It's really not necessary to have a cpu sensor but until I know what your specs are I don't want to give you the incorrect info.
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:37 PM   #4
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Welcome to PCMech. Is the display / sensor setup part of your case, or was it a separate purchase? What make / model?
it is part of the case, the case is a power up silver 5511 atx mid-tower with 450 watt power supply
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Old 08-29-2007, 02:58 PM   #5
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Are you using a PowerUp power supply? If you are seriously consider replacing it as soon as you can. It's a cheap low quality power supply that could damage your computer if it happens to die suddenly.

Could you post the complete system specs of this computer.

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Old 08-30-2007, 12:42 AM   #6
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yea, and yes i think it is a power up power supply.

specs:
-Power up silver 5511 atx mid tower case with 450 watt psu (probably power up since it came with the case)
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...=TC3J-4032%20P

-Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard - NVIDIA, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0 & Firewire, Serial ATA, RAID
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?Sku=A455-2322

-Intel Pentium E2160 Processor - 1.80GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz FSB, Allendale, Dual Core, OEM, Socket 775, HH80557PG0331M, Processor
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...u=CP2-PD-E2160

-Seagate / 320GB / 7200 / 16MB / SATA-300 / OEM / Hard Drive


-Lite-On Super-Multi LH20A1H Lightscribe DVD Burner - 20x DVD±R Burn, 16x DVD±R Read, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD±R DL, 12x DVD-RAM, Internal, Black-Beige
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...p?Sku=L12-1124

-Microsoft Windows XP Pro Edition OEM Version & Service Pack 2
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...5900&CatId=672

-PNY GeForce 7600 GS / 512MB DDR2 / SLI Ready / PCI Express / DVI / VGA / HDTV / Video Card
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...p?Sku=P56-7830

-Ultra 1024MB PC4200 DDR2 533MHz Memory
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...p?Sku=ULT31690

-Cooler Master / Hyper L3 / Socket 775 / Heat Pipe / Intel Core 2 Duo CPU Cooling Fan.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...455&CatId=1588

and then a couple extra fans. i think thats everything
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Old 08-30-2007, 10:47 PM   #7
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anybody know how to get it working?
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Old 09-05-2007, 01:11 PM   #8
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anybody know what to do with this?
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Old 09-05-2007, 01:20 PM   #9
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I don't know how your particular temperature display gets it's power from (does it have a 4 pin power connector coming from it?), but you don't want to put the orange sensor between the CPU and the heatsink. You want to put it on the side of the CPU (again, not between the CPU and the heatsink but on the side of it) or somewhere near the middle of the heatsink between the fins.

Personally, I wouldn't even use it.

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Old 09-05-2007, 02:39 PM   #10
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From the picture of the case it looks like there should be either a 4 pin molex connector or 3 pin mini power connector coming from it to power it. Place the sensor on or near the cpu heatsink.

Also that motherboard should have its own cpu sensor, i think you just need a program like speedfan to monitor it. Actually it should come with the Asus Probe program that should let you monitor the cpu temp
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Old 09-05-2007, 05:47 PM   #11
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ok, well i took off the front panel again, and i guess there was a 4 pin power connector in there, so i got it working now. lol. except now its in celcius, is there anyway to convert it to fareinheiht?
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