Asus Optional Thermal Sensor.

[Erick]

Hi,

I bought the pack of 3 of these thermal sensors.

Now where to put them exactly?

Are they thin enough to be placed BETWEEN a chip and its heatsink? eg NB chipset(990fx), SB and VRM?

Or they will be crushed by the pressure of the heatsink?

They seem VERT thin, but they have a small bump on the sensor end that worries me.

So far they are setting outside the case.

I have a Crosshair V Formula.

PS: I'm sorry i know its a double post from another part of the forum, but i thought i would get a quicker answer here. Since more people come here.

[oldbrave]

Do not place the temp thermistor between a chip and their heatsink, that will crush the thermistor and keep the heat from transferring from the chip to the heatsink.

[Erick]

Hmmm, maybe if place it underneath the heatsink but beside the chip?

Hey, mind if I ask, is your OC stable?

What setting did you use? Kinda hard to get past 4.5ghz here, not even 4.5ghz is totally stable, get occasionaly bsod 0x0D1 when playing anno 2070

[rrohbeck]

I use them to measure the the warmest drive in each of the two disk drive compartments of my case and the temperature at the CPU cooler exhaust. The latter changes very little though so I'm thinking of rigging another fan that blows at the VRM heatsinks and putting the sensor on one of them.
Yeah, you can't put them under a heatsink - that'll screw up the thermal contact and defeat the heatsink's purpose.

[Henkenator68NL]

I connected a sensor outside the case on the top of GPU exhaust. Just small peace of tape or tywrap to keep it in place
Other conector is going to sensor in O2 for fluid temp.
Third is placed on HDD sitting in middle of hdd rack.
Other option if you use 4 dimms of ram ; to carefully place it between mddle of ram modules

[RogDom]

Hi, just bought a set of 3 2 pin thermal sensors (not Asus brand), hooked them to the motherboard and placed the thermistors at hot spots like back of the video card.

-Thermistors are covered with thin plastic cellophane-like brownish wrap ( did not take it off)
- Couldn't figure which pin is ground (they seem to work any way you connect them to Asus motherboard with the same negative temps readings)

I was wondering if the sensors not being of Asus brand make them need some " calibration "?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated

Thanks

[HiVizMan]

Post what sensors you bought and if possible show us a image of the sensor with the plastic wrap on the tips. None of my sensors have any kind of plastic around the sensor itself.

[RogDom]

Post what sensors you bought and if possible show us a image of the sensor with the plastic wrap on the tips. None of my sensors have any kind of plastic around the sensor itself.

Thanks for the prompt reply
the senosors I bought from ebay are :
EverCool WC-Sensor 70cm Thermal Sensor Cables
here are pics of thermistor and 2 pin connector (doesn't carry any inscription about which pin is ground)
Thanks again

[HiVizMan]

OK I understand now. Let me pull out my board and see what this all means. I have a couple of those (look the same) laying about some place, they come from a water cooling kit if I recall. I am really not sure they are the correct kind of thermocouple and work with the ASUS boards but let me find out for you.

[RogDom]

OK I understand now. Let me pull out my board and see what this all means. I have a couple of those (look the same) laying about some place, they come from a water cooling kit if I recall. I am really not sure they are the correct kind of thermocouple and work with the ASUS boards but let me find out for you.

Yes they are from an Ever cool old water cooling device, I think they're off some 35 to 40 degrees Celsius for some reason, will try will WHinfo see how the readings look like, thanks