Good CPU temp monitoring app

[wolfen69]

i've decided to overclock my new phenom quad core 9950. what's a good prog for monitoring temps? btw, it's freakin awesome.

[Polygon]

lm-sensors

follow this guide to set it up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

and then install sensors-applet to get a nice gnome applet for it and you can also install hddtemp if you want sensors-applet to show the temps for your hard drives. Once you have everything set up, you ahve to right click > preferences on sensors applet and get rid of the bogus entries, cause i know for me i have like 4 entries for 'cpu' and only one of them is correct

anyway, experiment with it =)

[binbash]

lm-sensors + conky

[rajeev1204]

[QUOTE=Polygon;6767610]lm-sensors

follow this guide to set it up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

Thats a very old lm-sensors how to.I didnt have to follow all that.Just installed lm sensors and ran sensor detect which seems to load all modules.Probably needs a restart.

But i cant get CPU to show correct temperature.Always stuck at 40 degrees C.Its a known bug.

[wolfen69]

thank you for your responses. however, i am not filled with confidence about these methods. i had a great temp applet on my taskbar a while ago, but don't remember the name or how i got it. anyone else?

[Polygon]

[QUOTE=Polygon;6767610]lm-sensors

follow this guide to set it up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

Thats a very old lm-sensors how to.I didnt have to follow all that.Just installed lm sensors and ran sensor detect which seems to load all modules.Probably needs a restart.

But i cant get CPU to show correct temperature.Always stuck at 40 degrees C.Its a known bug.

the program shows what the sensors on your motherboard report. on my old computer, i had like 5 entries for CPU, 2 of then were like -1 degrees and the other was a constant 30 degrees, while the real one was at like 50 degrees.

[wolfen69]

when i run sudo ./mkdev.sh, it says command not found.

[wolfen69]

also, what command can i run to see what frequency i'm running at?

[Polygon]

frequency? as cpu frequency? thats a seperate program, im not sure of a cli one that will do that

and you have to cd to the directory that the script is in.

[Twitch6000]

lm-sensors + conky

+1

[DMcA]

there's a native gnome-panel temperature sensor applet in the repositories. I forget the name I'm afraid but once installed you can just "add to panel". I think it just uses "acpi -t", so you could run "watch acpi -t " in a terminal too. Similarly, there's a panel applet for frequency monitoring (which also let's you adjust the frequency if your CPU supports it) but I thought that was installed by default.

[wolfen69]

and you have to cd to the directory that the script is in.

i did, but says command not found.

[Polygon]

did you "chmod +x mkdev.sh" first?