08-06-2007, 01:04
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: chavy Nottingham
Age: 24
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Re: Antivirus / anti spyware / Firewall, and computer health thread
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Originally Posted by danielf
There's some handy apps out there that monitor you Hard Disk temperature and health. I've been using one of these since my laptop HD packed in due to overheating (I suspect). Hard Disk Temperature is displayed in the task bar. Currently at 48 Celcius, tends to go up to 52 when downloading. 
I use an old freeware version of hard disk sentinel (which I can't find a link for at present) |
I have Everest Ultimate which sits nicely in the sidebar, for all the temps/voltages. It does CPU usage as well but I find another gadget is better refreshing that.
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