Hiya Every Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year 2005!, Ok I have a old AMD K6 300 MHz tower here i want to be able to get a cpu temp reading its a Scoket 7 cpu. I have tried Motherboard Monitor ect but it cannot pick up any sensors. is there any other way of getting a temp, Any anouther thing what is a OK running temp for my CPU?? Thanks Martyn.S

Temp sensing wasn't a big priority in the days of the socket 7 & few boards had it. The Pentium-1 & K6-2s are not big heat producers by today's standards. I regularly test socket 7 CPUs with just a heatsink w/o fan & usually don't bother to clip the heatsink in place. I only run them for a minute or two this way, but I wouldn't even consider doing that with an Athlon. Bottomline, if you have a working HSF installed, I really don't think you have anything to worry about. Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

To add to that, back then and prior, CPU's ran slow and there were far fewer transistors and special cooling was not that big of a concern. I recall running 386 CPU's with no auxiliary cooling other the draft from the PSU and it was OK. Try something like that on the much faster and hotter CPU's today excluding the Pentium IV and what you get is a scorched processor. -- Have a Happy Holiday --

Here are te critical temperatures for the K6 series processors: AMD K6/K6-2/K6-III(all except below) : 70*C AMD K6-2/K6-III(model number ending X) : 65*C AMD K6-2+/K6III+ : 85*C these are just the critical temperatures you will probably crash before these are reached. Merry Christmas! %00