Overheating? Check with Speedfan
August 7, 2006
If you experience freezing, crashing, slowdown in PC performance this could be overheating of your CPU or video card. Temperatures between 40C-60C are acceptable depending ofcourse on what you’re doing and what PC you have.
SpeedFan is a program that will access the temperature monitoring chips inside your CPU and motherboard and give temp readouts. Temperatures, fan speeds, voltages are no longer hidden inside your PC. You can add events like sounds when you’re computer is getting too hot.
Available actions are:
Execute
Popup message
Send mail
Beep
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Download - Size: 1.4MB
Homepage - http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
