If your temps are confirmed by a DMM you'll know if you can trust what your sensors are showing or not. Some chips are so bad, miscalibrated or proprietary that they'll report temps that are off by dozens of degrees so it's a good idea to check your sensor calibration with a known good external sensor like a DMM with temp functions. If your board's got a decent sensor chip, it should be detected and it'll probably work, gpu sensors on the other hand can be really tricky.

Always use the official repos if you can, if you download something by hand, check the sums and sigs if they're available and scan for viruses.ĭebian and ubuntu and other distros sometimes modify the packages so they'll differ from the official source code.

Some boards have really cheapo or proprietary sensor chips on them that aren't supported.ĭon't run random code that you find on the internet without checking that it's safe and secure, there's a lot of idiots on the net. You'll have to apt-get install lm_sensors or apt-get install lm-sensors ( LM_SENSORS or LM-SENSORS all lower ) and run the detection script.

Ubuntu temperature monitor