Hard drives, like other electronic devices, have temperature thresholds that they need to run in. Manufacturers like Western Digital or Seagate inform their customers about those thresholds. But how can the customers make sure that the temperature does not jump over those limits? And what are the possible consequences if a drive operates outside of [...]

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Hard drives, like many other PC components perform best when they run in a specific temperature limits. To high temps can cause crashes, data loss and other technical problems that should be avoided at all costs. There are a few causes for temperature related problems, from insufficient cooling to the “hottest day of the year”. [...]

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I have had a few PCs in my time where keeping track of the temperature was critical to knowing the health of my system. In fact, I had one system that I knew would shut down if the temp reached anywhere near 44 degrees Celsius. So knowing the exact temperature can sometimes really be a [...]

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Windows users who want to monitor the temperature of their system have an assortment of tools at hand. From the well acclaimed Speedfan over Real Temp to other PC temp monitoring applications. But barely any of those offer in depth statistics about, most display minimum, maximum and current temperatures with no option to check temperature [...]

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Some computer hardware parameters change regularly while the computer is running. This includes the hardware temperature, clock speeds and voltages which should be monitored regularly to ensure that they are running in their allowed limits. It becomes even more important after building a pc and running it for the first time or when errors are [...]

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Keeping an eye on the computer temperature, especially the most relevant components like the processor (cpu), hard drives and video cards is essential to ensure data integrity and reliability of the computer system. Temperatures that reach critical levels can lead to all kinds of computer hardware related problems like crashes, blue screens, data loss and [...]

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Real Temp is a lightweight computer software program for the Windows operating system that has been designed to provide the user with information about the temperature of Intel cpus. The software program supports Intel single Core, dual Core and quad Core processors and will display the processor temperature in real time in the application interface. [...]

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