Althon 4 Thermal Diode Temperature

[thermite88]

(1) Which motherboard supports the Althon 4 Thermal Diode Temperature measurement?

(2) Are there any Althon 4 review that includes Thermal Diode Temperature measurement?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

1) I believe the Tyan Dual and Abit Dual do... I should be able to find that out this week

2) Not that I know of.



Mike

 

[Insane3D]

Mike, do you think a BIOS updat ecould support this, or does the board actually need different hardware to read the temp?

 

[Boonesmi]

from what ive read a bios update won't give current socketA boards the ability to read the diode

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Insane3d,

From both what i've read and actual MP testing, no. The problem is that the boards reading the internal diode are not using the VIA686-B to handle the temp reading, and that a separate chip(be it winbond as it is now, or whatever they use in hte future) is used to read the diode and monitor temps, rpms, voltages, etc.

Current socket-a boards are already hard-wired between Via686-B to the socket-thermistor, so I don't think any current socket-a board will read the internal diode.

Unfortunately, it looks like the MSI dual board will still be using socket-thermistors, though.



Mike

 

[thermite88]

Mike,

Thanks for the reply. Is it amazing that there is so little interest in the AMD CPU on important issues!

 

[richleader]

<< Thanks for the reply. Is it amazing that there is so little interest in the AMD CPU on important issues! >>



That's because they're all too busy chipping their cores! Seriously though, I gotta hand it to you guys who are testing the MP CPUs for us and are messing with the beta bioses--I appreciate hearing the news.

 

[thermite88]

bump

 

[MCS]

Most people are not interested in MP.

You will see PLENTY of interest when the Desktop Athlon 4s hit the streets.

 

[thermite88]

Anyone?

 

[dew042]

judging from the nforce board expected release date (read: close to the a4 release) i wonder if they will be designed for the thermal diode? anyone?