Low CPU Temp

[LRguy]

I just bought a P4 2.4C computer with a Gigabyte 8IPE1000 board. I overclocked it to 3.0GHZ, but the CPU temperature seems unbelievely low. I use Easy Tune 4 to monitor my temp and it says currently my CPU is only 66 F (19 C). I know it's late at night and that might have help, but on warm days it never goes above 74 F. I normally use my computer for watching movie files, mp3s, and internet. The AMD T-bird 1400 I replace, I did pretty much the same things and the CPU temp would normally be around 130 F and I even had a very loud expensive all copper fan (It was top of the line a year ago) for it too (P4 has a stock fan). My new P4 case is bigger, has 3 case fans also and better circulation. While my old AMD had only that CPU fan.

The Bios for my Gigabyte 8IPE1000 is from 08-01-03, so it's pretty recent. I think that there must be some bugs with the board. The temp seems too good to be true. I hope it's true!

Is there a software that can give me more accurate temps of my 865PE board? I haven't had a Pentium since OG Pentium 200. I have heard of peeps getting there CPUs to very low temps, but I didn't do anything special to mine.

 

[LRguy]

Anyone have any experience like this? Is this usual?

 

[Peter D]

That sounds more like a case temperature to me.. Try getting a different monitoring program like Motherboard Monitor

 

[LRguy]

Thanks homes, I'll try that. That makes more sense, it is probably is telling me only the computer temp.

 

[LRguy]

I tried out Motherboard Monitor and it doesn't work with my GA-8IPE1000 board. But I search for other monitoring programs and found Speedfan and MBProbe. They both say my CPU is 77 F [25] currently. I think this might be about right. On my old AMD T-bird, when I touch the heatsink when the computer was on, it was very warm but on the P4 it's cool to the touch. So I guess that's about right.

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