Temperature measurements were made using selfadhesive
fast response T-type thermocouples with + I T
accuracy installed on the CPU heat sink, memory module and
hard disk (see Figure I). A fourth thermocouple was used to
measure the ambient room temperature. Figure 2 shows the
schematic diagram of the experimental set up. As seen in the
figure, the thermocouples are connected to an E-Series
National Instrument Data Acquisition (DAQ) board through a
terminal box (SCB 68). A LabVIEW [3] program was used to
monitor and record temperature measurements every minute.