CPU Temps - On the Dashboard

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Hello,

I have a X7SPE-HF-D525 board with an Atom D525 cpu in place with a passive heatsink.

It's installed in a CSE-502L-200B 1U chassis.

I'm running pfSense-2.0.2-RELEASE-1g-amd64-nanobsd.img.gz on a USB stick.

I have read the various threads on the forum about how to see the temps from the command line, that works great.

I have an issue with overheating at the moment and was wondering if with this build there is a way of getting the temps to display on the dashboard?

Regards,

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kilthro

There are. I have them on mine. Let me grab em. You will have to edit things manually.

Here is the topic i followed and it works great.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,52301.0.html

Just be careful and back up the original pages first in case your editing is incorrect and you can get the dashboad back up and running fast.

In my system that is passively cooled too, I installed fans in the front of the supermicro case to blow air out over the board out the back and it lowered it by 20 degrees.

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Excellent, I will follow the info in the post and see if I can get it to work.

I have also been out and purchased some new Arctic Silver and a couple of 40mm fans, I'll reset the heatsink and add the fans tonight to see if that helps with the cooling.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

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All worked a treat.

I now have the temps from the four cores (HT'd) displayed on the dash.

The reapplication of thermal compound and the fan seem to have done the trick in terms of keeping the heat down.

My ear will be finally tuned for the sound over the overheat alarm overnight though!

Thank you for your help. Now just got to figure out how to use all the functions and packages for pfsense!

Regards,

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And for the next question…

Can CoreTemp be used to display the fan speed as well?

stephenw10

Nope!
The coretemp driver only reads values from the onboard diode in Intels 'core' series CPUs or newer. To read the fan speed you need to either read values being passed though ACPI or read the SuperIO chip directly. mbmon may or may not be able to do this for you. It's quite old now so it deppends on the design age of your superIO chip.

Steve