Temperature monitoring; best method?

I am having reliability problems with my G5 2.7. I am planning to ask questions soon in the hope I can deal with that.
In order to give the fullest picture, I think I should at least know what the operating temperatures are in the computer.
Please tell me how should I record these, is there a "window" within OS 10.5 to temperatures, or do I need a utility to access and read them.
Is there a standard way to make the computer work hard to reveal any overheating issues which may not be present at idle?
Any other suggestions in this aspect would be welcome.

Thank you Hatter.
I have run tests overnight by doing 6 iterations with Rember on two 1 Gig sticks (tests all passed BTW). I tried Running Photoshop CS4, but even with only 2 Gig of memory on board the computer scarcely broke sweat, only mild temp increases, in comparison with Rember.
In fact the overall temperatures dropped from their overnight rest levels after it had finished the memory test. I think that may be because the fans spun up slightly as I performed tasks in PS like Gaussian blur, Re-sizing, and USM etc. no significant temp rises during any PS activity.
The most significant temperature fluctuation seems to be the Memory Controller Heatsink which peaks at about 106ºC at the start of each of the Rember tests. How significant that is I don't know. Can anybody comment on that figure please?
The Memory Controller Heatsink quickly returns to it's average temperature, fluctuating between roughly 60ºC and 80ºC apparently showing the heat sink is doing it's job. If the heat sink weren't doing it's job I would expect the temp to come down more slowly than it rose. The spikes are same angle up and down.
Currently the Temperatures are:
CPU A Die Temperature Min: 44.8 - Max: 84.3 - Current: 54
CPU B Die Temperature Min: 43.3 - Max: 79.0 - Current: 52
Drive bay Temperature Min: 21.5 - Max: 23.0 - Current: 22
Main Logic board Bacsd Min: 37.5 - Max: 45.2 - Current: 41
Memory Controll Htsnk Min: 62.2 - Max: 106.6 - Current: 65
ProcessorCard A Ambnt Min: 33.2 - Max: 43.2 - Current: 43
ProcessorCard A Ambnt Min: 31.5 - Max: 39.8 - Current: 39
Does anybody feel these temperatures are out of the ball park? They cover the last 11 hours, and include testing my RAM with Rember, which to date has the greatest effect on the temperatures. By comparison looking at the graph now using PS generally brought the temperatures down quite significantly.
I could post an image of the Temp Graph if it were any help. I am not sure how to do that on this board.
I plan to do more tests including with the full 5 Gig of memory installed.
Thank you for your interest and suggestions.

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