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How do you mount temperature probes?

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freddiepm61

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Clearly there is no standard temperature probe. however, on the whole, how are temperature probes for cpu and gpu mounted?
thanks again for all your help
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i liek to put it between the HSF and the edge of the heat spreader for my A64, VPU and open core CPU's ( cough AMD cough ) i cant really help you.
 
There are really two ways you can get temperature: built in on silicon probes like the ones we see in most CPU's today and then those that some newer GPUs have. There are also external ones that are like a small diode thing connected to a wire that users add to their PCs.

I'm not sure which one you're referring to, but with the add in ones you can try to get it at close to the core as you can, like in between the heatsink and the silicon...
 
Please don't put anything between the core and the heatsink! Place external probes as close to the core as you can, beside them and touching works very well.
 
If your willing to sacrifice a teeny bit of thermal transfer for accurate temps, you can drill a small hole into your heatsink, cover the thermistor in thermal paste and epoxy it into the hole. The closer to the CPU you get the thermistor, the better the temp reading, but the bigger the thermal transfer hit.

Overclockers.com use this method for all their HS review testing.
 
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