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Temperature Program w/Alarm shutdown function

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DarkenReaper57

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Hello all,

I've been out of the loop for a while when it comes to new w/c gear and up-to-date utility sofware. I'm still using MBM5 for my temperature monitor program. I know Core Temp is much more accurate, but to my knowledge Core Temp cannot be configured to shut down your system when your CPU hits a certain temperature. This safeguard is nice if your pump fails and you don't trust your motherboard sensor to trip.

What is everyone else using nowadays? MBM5 has been discontinued, last I checked, and technically my motherboard isn't supported (no wonder the temperatures are inaccurate by 5C).
 
just use SpeedFan's "event" function.

But it is a bit funky.... for example, configuring SpeedFan to run "shutdown -s -t 1" (to shutdown after 1 second of delay) directly won't work.... I need to make a batch fiile which contain this command line and then configuring SpeedFan to run this batch file instead.

as the author said in the readme, this function is new and still need a lot of work... but I use SpeedFan anyway so I give it a try and I am OK with it
 
why would a hardware trip not work where a software one would? They are all using the same temp probe.....
 
You could use an Aquero! to do that function via a relay that cuts power to the board. You can feed data into it for the event or use any of the onboard senors (six temp, two flow, two pumps, and water level).
 
My only concern is that if it is a Software shut-down, then what happens if Windows freezes? What happens if the CPU gets hot, starts wigging out, and Windoze freezes on you. Then the temperature shut-down program won't ever trip.

I would love to see a hardware solution to this, too.
 
mellojoe said:
My only concern is that if it is a Software shut-down, then what happens if Windows freezes? What happens if the CPU gets hot, starts wigging out, and Windoze freezes on you. Then the temperature shut-down program won't ever trip.

I would love to see a hardware solution to this, too.
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You bring up an excellent point mellojoe. I doubt this would happen if your overclock is reasonably stable to begin with; that is, your system can handle fluctuations of 5 or 10C and remain stable. This is a requirement for variation in room temperature imho (assuming you are using passive cooling of some sort). Anyway, when I disconnect the power off my pump and monitor the temperature via coretemp, it does go up, but there is plenty of time for windows to shut down before reaching unstable temperatures. This will vary from processor to processor, obviously, though, so YMMV.

I'd prefer to use a software trip to help eliminate HD failures and system errors from force powering the system off. The hardware trip is a nice cushion too, though. I guess I should set the cpu temperature auto shutdown in my BIOS and see if it actually works. If so, I'll probably just leave it.

So I'm guessing there isn't some super-good software that has replaced MBM5?
 
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