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So there are two basic ways to check the temperature of your system and this is either through the BIOS or using a software application that comes with your motherboard. Not all motherboards are able to monitor CPU and motherboard temperature's... keep reading →

Better to download a software application for Windows...Everest Free Edition. If your hardware has CPU Temp. Monitoring and reporting Everest will pull it and show it to you. As well as quite a few more important things.

While CPU is running, it produces heat. CPU is an electronic device. It is very urgent to remove heat from electronic devices as soon as possible. Otherwise the internal temperature will be increased. If the device is too hot (internally), then the... keep reading →

As anybody else has commented, ie via bios or a program (http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ or http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ or http://www.cputhermometer.com/ or a myriad of others) , assuming your motherboard/cpu setup has a monitor. Many older computers, especially laptops, don't have accessable system thermometers or ones at all.

I use a program called speedfan, it's easy to use and you can monitor your fans from it as well.

You can also check in your BIOS.

One thing you can do is identify the manufactures of the motherboard (Asus, Intel) then download from their website a utility which will give you this information

Many of the softwares i downloaded to check cpu temperature proved to be useless. If anyone can give the name of a software that allows free download and i do not want any trial version.