How to Check CPU Temperature and Motherboard Temperature

Checking CPU temperature through BIOS

So the first way to check your cpu temperature and motherboard temperature (often reffered to as system temperature) you have to enter your systems bios / setup.

Sometimes it can be hard to enter the bios especially when you have a very fast loading computer, so here are the basic steps

1. Upon Startup press DEL to enter SETUP (another name for BIOS) it may differ from motherboard it may be F1 or sometimes F2, if you having trouble seeing what key to press it should tell you at the very bottom of the screen press the PAUSE BREAK key on your keyboard so you pause your screen to take a closer look.

2. Once in BIOS , navigate to your motherboards Power or PC health Menu

3. Here you will see CPU TEMP, SYSTEM TEMP

example of bios screen, yours may be setup differently

Checking CPU temperature while in Windows/Linux

So for this method you can check the CD that came with your Motherboard for any software that allows you to check your CPU temperature. For this example I am using an ASUS motherboard which uses the ASUS AI Suite program to monitor CPU temperature, System temp and Clock speeds.

So you can simply install the program from your Motherboard CD, and open the program up which looks like below using the cpu temperature monitoring software

Shows CPU temp, System Temp , clock speeds and fan RPM's , here I only have a CPU fan running