Which is the best program to check the temperature in OS 9?
OS 9? No idea. One of the reasons I also maintain a small, separate drive for an OS X boot. With that in mind… short answer to your question: “I don’t know”.
I use Marcel Bresink’s Temperature Monitor
https://www.bresink.com/osx/LegacyProducts.html (Free) and two different versions (4.7 and 4.98… the first for Panther 10.3.8 and the second, recommended up to and including 10.6 Snow Leopard). I’ve never tried ThermographX:
http://www.kezer.net/shareware/thermographx/ but may do so, eventually.
May be that OS 9 alone, does run an MDD that much cooler?
23˚ to 26˚C seems rather “cool” as I normally get higher (upper end) running operating temps on MDDs under OS X here, right around 57˚C (134˚ F) with Bresink’s Temperature Monitor. And, as all readings from any such software based temperature apps may vary somewhat… I also place a simple HVAC thermometer into an MDD exhaust and check that temp too, just for comparison.
Right now, I’ve a Mac mini -1.83GHz - Core 2 Duo running Snow Leopard that’s showing 108˚F (42.2˚C) at the exhaust with an HVAC thermometer and these Intel-based minis normally run
very hot.
Hotter than an MDD usually in my experience… so this reading is surprising to me.
*All MDDs here are downstairs and I’m working upstairs today, or I’d provide an HVAC exhaust temp from one of those too.
I’ve yet to try the laser temperature devices for checking temps of heatsinks.
Give Bresink’s a try (with an OS X boot) and report back please with your readings. Thanks.
Anyone else care to comment? Shirley?
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