MSI K7T Turbo temp reading

[iamthesystem]

I haven't seen this brought up on this board before, so here goes:

Directly from MSI's FAQ:



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Question
Why does my K7T Turbo temperature is higher compared to my K7T Pro2 or my boards from other manufacturer

Answer
This is because the temperature detected by K7T Turbo is more accurate. K7T Turbo temperature detected would be higher compared to K7T Pro2 or other boards because K7T turbo uses the TOP TECH. TOP TECH is the gold color plastic strip on the board to detect the CPU temperature. This plastic strip touches directly the CPU while K7T Pro2 or other boards uses the resistor method which detect the CPU temperature via the air flow in between the resistor & the CPU
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so....the K7T Turbo temp reading (using MBM5 or any other program) should provide a fairly accurrate temp reading???
...and no compensation is required for the K7T?

hmm...interesting....

 

[trmiv]

Yea, my temp readings with my K7T Turbo are a lot higher than they ever were on my Abit KT7-RAID, but the CPU is not overheating. So, I guess with my K7T Turbo I'm just getting a more accurate representation of the temp than I was on the KT7-RAID.