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Thanks for the reply, I will try this when I get home from work tonight. Sorry it took so long to get back, had to go out of town on short notice.

I have e-mailed MSI and all I got was the canned answer, check HS, is fan running, core voltage,clock speed, etc, etc,. And I am sure it is not Max temp in the BIOS. But if I disable the Core Center (the monitoring software) it runs fine, including gaming. I can run Doom 3 all night and it...

Ya that was the first thing I tried.

It measures both the MOBO is in the 40C. The CPU is the one I am concerned about it measures 72C idle in both the BIOS and the MSI Core Center software.

I bought this board because it got really good reviews and it does run great, this is the only problem. I dont really think it is running that hot, I just think that it is not reporting the temp right. I can put my hand on the heat sink and it does not even feel hot.

Thanks!

I recently put together a new system with an K8N Neo Platinum MOBO. System runs great except that it runs very hot. Idle it runs about 72C. I have reseated the fan, heatsink, added thermal compound, bought a new case, added 120mm input and output fans and nothing helps not even a few degrees. Is...

I recently put together a new system with an K8N Neo Platinum MOBO. System runs great except that it runs very hot. Idle it runs about 72C. I have reseated the fan, heatsink, added thermal compound, bought a new case, added 120mm input and output fans and nothing helps not even a few degrees. Is...

I recently put together a new system with an K8N Neo Platinum MOBO. System runs great except that it runs very hot. Idle it runs about 72C. I have reseated the fan, heatsink, added thermal compound, bought a new case, added 120mm input and output fans and nothing helps not even a few degrees...