Best temperature monitoring software

bazzabear · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:30

It's an Asus Prime Z730-P. Sorry, I don't know the BIOS version off hand, would have to check tonight.

bazzabear · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:31

I'm a bit late to thinking to do so, but a quick google of that motherboard and voltages shows a thread on Asus' own forum starting with:

Out of the box and no changes to the latest bios, I'm finding the voltages to be a bit too high for my comfort level. At all stock settings, I'm looking at 1.47 on CPUz on the vcore. Temps are also really high.

Which sounds very familiar!

Randomface74 · 1 Jul 2019 at 15:34

I'd take it out the cupboard. Give it a good blow with compressed air. Lower the voltage a little more. Then call it a day.

bazzabear · 1 Jul 2019 at 20:53

There's an interesting point. I checked the BIOS version now - it's 0405, from 2017.

Looking at the motherboard CPU support listing it states that this CPU was only supported from BIOS version 0408.

So I guess it might be worth a BIOS update.

bazzabear · 1 Jul 2019 at 21:10

BIOS updated to version 2001, with voltage control left at auto - which it re-defaulted to.

Immediately I see that VCORE is sitting at around 0.8V and temperatures are much lower. Max CPU temp is now 40C! (Still to stress it, but that's at least a 20C drop.)

Thanks again to everyone in this thread. Without the link from temp to voltage, and from there to BIOS versions, I wouldn't have got to this point!

bledd · 1 Jul 2019 at 22:37

Awesome.

Glad you got it sorted

Speccy is a good freeware tool that will tell you temps and voltages and bios version etc.

clown_abhi · 10 Jul 2019 at 13:45

I just use HWinfo and it works great for logging. Have also used GPU-Z to check for Graphics card temperatures and power use etc.