If you're running a Raspberry Pi, you may occasionally see a flashing icon of a red, half-full thermometer in the upper right corner of the currently running application's screen. We noticed the red thermometer icon appear in Kodi for example. This is an indication that your Raspberry Pi CPU temperature may be running high or has surpassed the soft temperature limit as defined in config.txt. You can of course change the soft limit by editing config.txt to a higher or lower value as needed. With this said, you may also need to manually check the CPU temperature or monitor it if you have some high intensity processes running on your Raspberry Pi.
How to check CPU/GPU Temperature on Raspberry Pi
- Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TJMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU.
- Check CPU Temp with Core Temp I'll use Core Temp to check my processor's temperature. As you can see, I have an Intel Core i7-8700K processor, which is a six-core CPU.
When you login to your Raspberry Pi from the command line, the motd will show you a snapshot of your Pi's current CPU/GPU temperature. To check the temperature of your Raspberry Pi‘s CPU manually, you can use 'measure_temp' like this and it will display the current temperature:pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=39.2'C
Take this one step further and use the Linux command ‘watch' to monitor your CPU temperature in realtime, or every 2 seconds if you're just running command without options. For example:Every 2.0s: /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp retropie: Sat Aug 23 09:32:00 2020temp=38.6'C
Changing the default temperature limit in config.txt
Check your CPU temperature with monitoring software. Intel and AMD, two popular CPU manufacturers, both offer CPU monitoring software for their products. For an all-purpose solution, you can try Core Temp, a popular and free third-party option. Many people use it while stress-testing their CPU — a process in which you run your computer at.
You can of course change the default temperature limit by adding or changing the following config key in config.txt which can be found in /boot/config.txttemp_limit=85
Pc Fan And Cpu Temp Checker
This is a fairly simple solution for something that we rarely need to check, but when we do, we've often forgotten how to do it. Enjoy.
CPU Temperature in Windows 10
Windows 10 doesn't have a native way to check the CPU temperature, but there are many free third party programs that can show it to you
- Coretemp
- HWMonitor
- OpenHardwareMonitor
- Speedfan
- NZXTCAM
- Speccy
- Rainmeter
Check Cpu Temp Reddit
Applies To: Windows 10
Here's the links to each program's website:
If you're worried about your CPU overheating – the maximum CPU temperature really depends on the CPU. Look up what the ranges for your CPU are; CPUTemper have a good list here, or go to the manufacturer's specifications:
Intel refers to it as a Junction Temperature or TJunction – the maximum temperature allowed at the processor die.
- Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TJMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU.
- Check CPU Temp with Core Temp I'll use Core Temp to check my processor's temperature. As you can see, I have an Intel Core i7-8700K processor, which is a six-core CPU.
When you login to your Raspberry Pi from the command line, the motd will show you a snapshot of your Pi's current CPU/GPU temperature. To check the temperature of your Raspberry Pi‘s CPU manually, you can use 'measure_temp' like this and it will display the current temperature:pi@retropie:~ $ /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
temp=39.2'C
Take this one step further and use the Linux command ‘watch' to monitor your CPU temperature in realtime, or every 2 seconds if you're just running command without options. For example:Every 2.0s: /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp retropie: Sat Aug 23 09:32:00 2020temp=38.6'C
Changing the default temperature limit in config.txt
Check your CPU temperature with monitoring software. Intel and AMD, two popular CPU manufacturers, both offer CPU monitoring software for their products. For an all-purpose solution, you can try Core Temp, a popular and free third-party option. Many people use it while stress-testing their CPU — a process in which you run your computer at.
You can of course change the default temperature limit by adding or changing the following config key in config.txt which can be found in /boot/config.txttemp_limit=85
Pc Fan And Cpu Temp Checker
This is a fairly simple solution for something that we rarely need to check, but when we do, we've often forgotten how to do it. Enjoy.
CPU Temperature in Windows 10
Windows 10 doesn't have a native way to check the CPU temperature, but there are many free third party programs that can show it to you
- Coretemp
- HWMonitor
- OpenHardwareMonitor
- Speedfan
- NZXTCAM
- Speccy
- Rainmeter
Check Cpu Temp Reddit
Applies To: Windows 10
Here's the links to each program's website:
If you're worried about your CPU overheating – the maximum CPU temperature really depends on the CPU. Look up what the ranges for your CPU are; CPUTemper have a good list here, or go to the manufacturer's specifications:
Intel refers to it as a Junction Temperature or TJunction – the maximum temperature allowed at the processor die.
AMD will list the MAX TEMPS for each CPU.
Check Cpu Temp
Above 80°C or 176°F is generally not ideal.
