Laughing, Yes, you should be able to hear a fan! But the fan that most people hear on their machines is the main air intake fan. The fan on the CPU itself normally is silent or pretty quiet. Usually, any motherboard with an AMD chip in it has a temperature sensor for that chip. Part of the AMD socket setup. So, in your BIOS, there should be a "page" with temperature settings and the current CPU temperature should be showing there. Unfortunately, you probably must bug out of your operating system, and just boot up into your BIOS to see that temperature. AMD provides this temperature sensor because they are trying very hard to become the industry leader in reducing CPU temps, and also in reducing overall power consumption. Because your CPU is covered completely by the fan (or watercooling device), there is no other good way to access the CPU to monitor its temperature. Most motherboard manufacturers publish a Windows utility program to show this temperature within Windows. ASUS and MCI motherboards in particular. So, you might find such a utility program on your distribution disk(s) that came with your computer. Or, you might be able to open your case and identify the maker of your motherboard. If you can identify the motherboard, almost all the manufacturers post these little utility programs on their websites for free download. Some of us geeks go the extra mile and arrange to install temperature monitors within our cases. For example, I have a unit fitting within my hard disk drive bay that has four temperature probes on it that I've laid out into various areas of my case (including near my AMD CPU). The unit has a digital temp display on the front. (Well, it also provides extra USB connectors, and a full range of card readers.) If you have a spare hard disk drive slot, you can find these online at ThinkGeek or almost any online store that sells computer parts for us do-it-yourselfer's.