Kuma 7750 temps

[calyco]

Just finished building a new system with a ECS A780GM mobo and AMD Kuma 7750. I used HWMonitor, Core Temp and Speedfan to monitor the temps and they are all reading at 28C idle for the CPU. Are these temps accurate, seems kinda low for a stock heatsink? Btw I also have a Corsair 650w PSU, one 120mm case fan and the side panel of the case removed. Any info would be appreciated.

 

[calyco]

heres a screenshot of HWMonitor
http://i29.tinypic.com/2hek6jq.jpg

 

[LoneNinja]

Unless I'm mistaken it looks like you have cool n quiet on, so it's actually a believable temp.

 

[PM650]

Your CPU idles at a temp lower than my case. My 7750 idles at around 38C with a this & with cool n quiet enabled. This chip is a Phenom I part with two cores disabled, but it's still 95W TDP. Those other temps (TMPINx) are quite a bit higher than the cpu, I would be suspicious. Try running speedfan.

 

[calyco]

I do have the side panel on my case off, the case is pretty roomy since I only have one HD and a GTX 260. The heatsink is barely even warm to the touch and the case fan is venting out cool air. Oh and I also have AS5 applied. I havent built a system in a while and just wanted to make sure. I remember in the Athlon days the best I was able to achieve was 32C with say a Zalman cooler. 28C on a stock cooler.. maybe the newer AMD chips are really that good?!

Heres what I get with speedfan

http://i28.tinypic.com/24fiw77.jpg

 

[brblx]

speedfan is poop, open up HWmonitor.

that's saying your CPU core temp is lower than your ambient case temp. i would guess what's read as 'temp2' is actually your cpu temp and temp1 is core temp.

 

[calyco]

HWMonitor shows 4 readings

TMPIN0: 28C
TMPIN1: 51C

Core#0: 28C
Core#1: 28C

I rebooted and TMPIN0 is now in sync with the core temps. TMPIN1 hovers around 49-51C. So I open Call of Duty: WOW and played for 15 mins, alt tabbed back to the desktop and the TMP1N0 and core temps shot up from 28C to 47C. Then it slowly comes back down to finally 28C. TMPIN1 however barely even moves and is usually at 49C. So judging by the increase when gaming, Im guessing the core and TMPIN0 really are the correct temps for the CPU. How accurate they are is another story.

 

[PM650]

if you're worried about overheating -> instability, just run prime95 for a few hours.

Also, if using XP & have cool n quiet enabled in bios (may be called something else but should be in there): set your power scheme to 'Minimal Power Management' in control panel. My 7750 automatically downclocks to 1GHz @ idle, it just ran at 2.7 all the time w/o changing the scheme.