Generally there are two ways to go about this. The first way is entering the BIOS and finding the hardware monitor page. On this page you will commonly find things like CPU temperature and voltage, case temperatures, power supply voltages as well as other various motherboard related things. The only pitfall of this method is that in most cases the CPU is not under stress. This means the CPU temperature you see is equal only to what we would seen in the OS when the computer is idle. Heat related problems occur almost always when the computer is under load (thus producing more heat).

So our second option is to use software to monitor temperatures. The most commonly used program for this is Motherboard monitor 5. This program can not only read voltage levels but also fan speeds and System/CPU temperatures. Most motherboards are now automatically detected during setup so there is no configuration needed.

If however you can't find your motherboard in the list of boards during setup look at this page to find which sensors on your motherboard correspond to which sensor in MBM.

You can download MBM 5 here.

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