Hi ive just been given a new icute pc case it dosnt contain any documents and cant find model name number.My problem is there are 3 cables going to a monitor on the front they have probes on and are marked hd cpu and vga i know what they are but dont know how to attach them to the relevant things any help would be appreciated.

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Sounds like temperature probes. If you connect power to the display and affix the probes to the various components it should report the respective temperatures. When you buy products with temperature probes new, you usually get double sided tape to attach the probes. It will be someone difficult to attach them without it.

Ordinarily, HDD probes are affixed to the side of the HDD chassis, while CPU and Graphics probes are affixed to the fins of the heat sink.

Thanks for that SyphusÂÂ! ;D wouldnt the double sided tape melt though??

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Normal stuff probably would, or at least get horrible and sticky. The tape provided with thermal probes is similar to the kind that can be found under memory heatsinks; thermally conductive.

I was going to warn you against using regular tape or sellotape in my reply, but figured that was pretty obvious.

No probs have ordered some thermal tape to attach the probes have also been advised to cover any that are near fans with electrical tape so dont get falso readings is this correct??

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This is sort of a good idea, since the movement of air will cool the exposed side of the probe, reducing temperatures. Electrical tape is an insulator, so it should provide some level of protection against this. I'm not sure if I would advise it though, as electrical tape isn't a thermal conductor and will get pretty sticky.

The reality of the matter is that probes attaches to the heatsinks of devices are a false reading to start with, or should I say, a reading relative to nothing. Temperatures measures on the outside of HDDs and off heatsinks don't represent the temperature of the hardware as much as the represent the efficiency of cooling. What I mean by this is, if you attach a probe to a Thermalright XP120 HSF, your readings probably wont exceed 30 degrees (guessing here). This is of course, not relevant to the actual CPU temperature. You might measure 40 degrees off say, the XP90, while the CPU itself only has a temperature variance of 5 degrees.

The point is, the readings don't really mean anything to begin with, so you can't get "false readings", just possible more accurate ones. With this in mind, one has to ask one's self exactly why one bothers to take these temperatures, when all modern hardware has built-in thermal diodes to begin with.

When I had thermal probes (since done away with the useless things), I attached one right by the front intake fan and another at the rear exhaust so I could measure in and out air temperatures. This was educational if nothing else. For measuring hardware temps, you can't go wrong with SpeedFan.

Thanks for the insight i was just going to use it as its there sort of thing but yeah the mobo has inbuilt probe so guess thats more than enough. ;D

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