Thermal Sensor

[mojo1990]

I recently brought a Scythe fan controller and it arrived couple days back.

Fan controller

This controller comes with 2 thermal sensors (and one optional spare. You stick them on with transparent sticky tape

Thermal sensor

What are the ideal locations to place both of these sensors? I will be controlling two Scythe Gentle Typhoon AP-15 Fans mounted above my Rad.

Any help is much appreciated

 

[sheroo]

If you use something like HWMonitor (which is what Tom uses) it gives you most of the data that you need to monitor your system on screen. So seeing as though you have 2 sensors I would be tempted to measure the intake and exhaust temps. That would give you a reasonable idea on the heat exchange going on...

 

[mojo1990]

If you use something like HWMonitor (which is what Tom uses) it gives you most of the data that you need to monitor your system on screen. So seeing as though you have 2 sensors I would be tempted to measure the intake and exhaust temps. That would give you a reasonable idea on the heat exchange going on...

When you say intake and exhaust are you referring to any particular component? Such as the Radiator?

The thing is my two fans will be mounted on the radiator, in pull config. The rest of my fans will be stock fans from the Corsair 650D case.

Am guessing there is no point is sticking the thermal sensor on the Rad, or maybe I should?

 

[sheroo]

I've got the older version of this fan controller with the 4 fan / 4 thermal sensor option. I stuck one underneath my graphics card near the pci-e slot, one on my north bridge, one to the top of my cpu heatsink, one to the top of my raptor.

tbh after the initial wow look at my temps on the front of my case, 3 months later I never paid any attention to it at all, and could gain more accurate temps using speedfan or similar. Ended up just using the controller to adjust the noise.

I would use one controller for the 2 rad fans, and the other for say the intake fan (if you have one). You can stick the wire of the thermal sensor to the case, and have the sensor in "mid-air", then it will read the air temp. The only reason I suggested the intake and exhaust temps is that these are not readily available by other means, and so add value and give you info beyond what the motherboard sensors and smart hdd data can give you.

 

[mojo1990]

I've got the older version of this fan controller with the 4 fan / 4 thermal sensor option. I stuck one underneath my graphics card near the pci-e slot, one on my north bridge, one to the top of my cpu heatsink, one to the top of my raptor.

tbh after the initial wow look at my temps on the front of my case, 3 months later I never paid any attention to it at all, and could gain more accurate temps using speedfan or similar. Ended up just using the controller to adjust the noise.

I would use one controller for the 2 rad fans, and the other for say the intake fan (if you have one). You can stick the wire of the thermal sensor to the case, and have the sensor in "mid-air", then it will read the air temp. The only reason I suggested the intake and exhaust temps is that these are not readily available by other means, and so add value and give you info beyond what the motherboard sensors and smart hdd data can give you.

Interesting, I think it would be ideal If I place one sensor in the middle of the case, near to the main components such as the CPU and GPU. As you suggested, maybe sticking out to get a feel of the air inside. When you say intake are you referring to the front 140mm fan of the case? Just for reference I am using a corsair 650d case.

Can you recommend some good Temp software that can monitor my PC? Does Speedfan work with temp sensors or does it pick up info from the components without you having to do anything?

My stock fans from the case will me connected to the case fan controller so I can adjust the speed manually after knowing the temp.

 

[sheroo]

When you say intake are you referring to the front 140mm fan of the case?

Yes.

Can you recommend some good Temp software that can monitor my PC?

Tom uses a program called HWMonitor, it's written by CPUID the people also responsible for CPU-Z.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html