How To check the temperature of CPU, motherboard and video card from within Windows?
Computer from overheating can cause instability in the work, and if no deal with the overheating may occur serious damage.Danger of overheating is compounded if you are overclocking your processor, which is faster than its rated speed.You need special software to determine the temperature of the components of your computer, because not all motherboards and processors are able to display their level of temperature.
Instructions
1.Open an Internet browser, go to the sitehttp://almico.com/speedfan.phpTo download a program to monitor the system «Alfredo Milani Comparetti’s SpeedFan».The monitoring program determines the temperature of your CPU, motherboard and video card.
2.The left mouse button double-click the downloaded file from the Internet to start the installation program.Follow the instructions to install the software on your computer.Depending on how you configure the operating system «Windows Vista», you may need to confirm the installation in the window User Account Control.
3.Click on the “Start” menu in the lower left corner of the screen, then go to “Programs”, then «SpeedFan».In this folder, click on «SpeedFan» to launch the application.It will take several seconds to determine your temperature parameters of system components.
4.Look at the number next to the «CPU», on the tab «Readings» program to check the temperature of your CPU.If you have a processor with multiple cores, each of them will have a separate sign next to the number of the nucleus, starting with the «Core 0″, because as usual computers start counting from 0 rather than 1.