Speedfan Question

[Zambini]

So I was lookin at Speedfan and I was wondering what these temperatures actually mean and where in my PC they are.

I only know what HD0 and HD1 are. I think that "Core" (no numbers, just "core") is the chipset thing that's got a big ol' heatsink on it, just below the CPU but above my video card.

anyway, this is a screenshot of the speedfan temperature readout. I was wondering if you guys could fill me in on what some of them mean.
(Same machine that my sig is)

[screwballl]

In your case:
temp1 is usually a chipset
temp2 is usually the real ambient
temp3 any temp that shows anything less than 15ºC is usually a misreading
HD0 and 1 are hard drives
Core 0 and 1 are the CPU cores
Core: is likely the chipset or another sensor that is not working right
Ambient is also likely a misread sensor, is it 136ºF in your room or even inside the case? Not if you have at least one case fan working right.
I suspect either the "Core" or "Ambient" may be the GPU but it is hard to say. I suggest a few other programs to see what they say for the CPU temp and go from there.

[Reloadron]

This may help a little:

SpeedFan monitors temperatures, through available hardware monitor chips which expose their temperature sensors connected to different places inside your [COLOR=orange! important][COLOR=orange! important]computer[/color][/color], and, according to your setup, does its best to keep them at your desired value. You can even change a fan speed according to the temperature of your hard disk. When choosing parameters for the minimum and maximum fan speed, try to set them by hand (disable all the VARIATE FANs checkboxes) and listen to the noise. When you hear no noise from the fan then you can set that value as the minimum fan speed for that fan. I suggest using 100 as the maximum value, unless you hear a lot of noise from it, in which case you might reduce the maximum speed to 95 or 90. Obviously, nothing says that you can't set 60 as your maximum value and, sometimes, I myself set it that way. Consider that when the WARNING temperature is reached, the program sets the fan speed to 100, whichever maximum speed you set. One last word should be said regarding the USE FAN x listbox. In my pc, more than one temperature changes when a fan runs faster. You can say on which fan every temperature should rely. On my [COLOR=orange! important][COLOR=orange! important]system[/color][/color], TEMP1 and TEMP3 are both influenced by FAN1.

Taken From: SpeedFan - Access temperature sensor in your computer

Next you can set things up and label them accordingly:

SpeedFan Screenshots Page

With the F2 key you can rename any reading found by SpeedFan. On the configuration dialog you can see the hardware monitor chips that were found, where they are located and sample readings. SpeedFan knows about a lot of different digital sensors and system bus. If you happen to see an unusually high temperature on this dialog, perhaps it is simply a disconnected sensor: something that the hardware monitor chip can monitor, but that the motherboard manufacturer didn't use.

Ron