Looking for a...

temp reader for my comp to moniter it. Please and Thank You

There are many programs that will monitor the temperatures of specific components inside your computer, but only if those components support temperature monitoring. Not all motherboards, videocards, and hard drives have the necessary components, especially if they are older. Perhaps you can suggest what specific part of your computer you want to monitor?

video card and motherboard

For motherboard, Motherboard Monitor (http://mbm.livewiredev.com/) works really well for me. As for videocard, if it has temperature sensors, it usually ships with the card or is available for download from the manufacturer's website. If you do find a program but it doesn't work, it's more than likely that your card doesn't have the sensor. My videocard shipped with a temperature monitoring program, but it gives errors since no sensors are on the chip.

how could i find out if my vid card has sensors and/or a temp moniter porg

btw ty for all the help

I would suggest Googling for your card's manufacturer+temperature monitoring, as I'm not that familiar with the various video card utilities out there. Perhaps someone else can give you a more helpful solution.

how can i find out my motherboard type/name? :S im kinda new at comps and this thing has over 1k+ motherboards and it needs me to pick which one i got

Well, you could open up your computer to look at it. This program might be able to tell you though : http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php. Run that and click on the motherboard tab. It should tell you what you need to know.

It says my Model = AV8 (VIA K8T800P-8237)
Looked for AV8 - None
Looked for VIA - Yay! Found
Looked in Sub Categories for K8T800P-8237 - None
It has other Via's but not mine....

Your motherboard appears to be made by Abit. Have you tried looking under that category, then the model number?

there are a lot of K## under Abit, but not mine

Did your motherboard come with any disks? Sometimes those have the little utility programs for checking temperatures and whatnot.

Ok i got my video card temperature working (its not looking good considering damn Alienware screwed up its shipping and shattered all the fans (2 in total) on it!
its like 50c+

Still working on motherboard temp
And I'd have to ask my dad if he had any disks with it. Probably did.