Monitor heat

Hi everyone,

WOW I wish I had found this place before I purchased my new Dell, I had an old dell xps laptop maxed out and never had an issue with it and after 4 years sold it on ebay for 800.00. bad decision.

What to do what's done is done, my question is, On my old dell xps i use to use a program to monitor the temp and was able to bring it down 3 degrees by changing the thermal compound. Before I do anything with this beautiful looking studio xps. I would like to know if and what people are using to monitor the temperature. I have installed speedfan and it seems ok but as we all know with dell systems they like to make it difficult for us to monitor the temps.

I checked the logs on speedfan and did not see anyone else posting settings for the studio xps.

If you guy's are using software to monitor the temp can you all let me know what you are using and what you like about it?

Thanks

SPECS;
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STUDIOXPS 1645
OBSIDIAN BLACK LTHR,INSP
i7 720QM 1.6GHz (2.8 GHz, 6MB Cache)
4X BLURAY DRIVE
15.6 1080P FULL HD WLED LCD, W/2.0 MP,IN
ATI Mobility RADEON HD 4670 1GB
128GB SOLID STATE DRIVE (should have upgraded to the 250) :-(
WIN 7 ULTIMATE,64,ENG,NB
Win7 Pro and Ultimate with XP Mode (not sure why this is listed 2 times)
Dell Wireless 1501 for Canada and Latin
DW 370 (USB module) (i have bluetooth and guess this is it, but the bluetooth is built in)?
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I like the CPUID HWMonitor program... it reports the temps of everything in the system (all 4 cores, GPU, Harddrive, and also motherboard.)

*Edit: Are you having any particular problems with your new laptop? I'm absolutely loving mine!

 

Not one issue what so ever, other than it's lightning fast. L0L

I should also mention that I'm looking for a program that will run in the tray so i can add a skin and use rain-meter, I have a skin made and just need the best piece of software to report the temps.

I'll post a screen shot of my desktop later.

 

I just remembered with my old dell xps, there was a key combination you could press to have a window pop up, looked like an old dos window and it would tell you the temps. This was done while in windows so the temp was real time straight from the bios.
Has anyone found a key combination for the new dells?
It was like shift, ctrl, O and T, something like that.

 

Just found it in an old text file.

press the combination keys, FN+SHIFT, keep pressing it while at the same time, press number 1, 5, 3, 2, 4 consecutively.

After that, you can release any key you have to keep, then, at any convenient time for you,

press another combination keys, FN+R.

I'm trying it now with my new studio xps, I'll let you know if it works.
Wish my luck.

 

Ok that key combination does not work.