NF7-S CPU temp run high?

[MichaelD]

I know that Arctic Silver has a bit of a "cure time"; it takes a little thermal cycling to get it to settle...but it's been two days now.

The only thing about my setup that changed is the motherboard; went from an Epox 8RDA+ to an Abit NF7-S v2.0. My HSF (SLK900) is on correctly.

Before, my idle temp was 37C. Now it's 47C. My case temps have not changed one bit. Any ideas?

One comforting thing; my stress temps (P95) are 49-51C, which shows the HS is doing a good job. Still, that idle temp concerns me.

I know that 47C idle is not bad at ALL for an overclocked XP2100 (running 200 x 10 right now) but it was so much lower before.

System is stable. 17+ hours of P95 torture test. 0 errors, 0 warnings.

 

[Megatomic]

Abit boards are famous for showing higher CPU temps. than the competitors' boards. What BIOS version are you running? If it's an older one try flashing to a newer version and see what happens.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Abit boards are famous for showing higher CPU temps. than the competitors' boards. What BIOS version are you running? If it's an older one try flashing to a newer version and see what happens.

Good question. Lemme look.

I swear, it says 12/24/2020. It's obviously not 2020...and it's not 2002. WTF?

 

[Megatomic]

Sounds like BIOS 21 or 22. I remember one of them doing that. If you have AIDA32 or EVEREST you can get the BIOS version there. With no rebooting.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Sounds like BIOS 21 or 22. I remember one of them doing that. If you have AIDA32 or EVEREST you can get the BIOS version there. With no rebooting.

I have no idea what those are...but I only flash BIOS' in a pure DOS environment, while connected to my UPS. No safer way that I know of. So, I guess I don't have the latest version, huh?

 

[Megatomic]

No you don't. The last 2 BIOS updates have the correct year in the datestamp.

And for the record, the Abit FlashMenu utility is perfectly safe for flashing your BIOS. I have done it many times with no problems. It's so much easier to do it this way.

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks, Megatomic. I'm DLing the latest now from Abit.

 

[Megatomic]

NP. Glad to help.