Oddly high temperatures but stable

[spanner]

Should I worry about high temperature readings (possibly innacurate) if my system is perfectly stable? I don't overclock. All I care about is stability.

 

[teqwiz]

Don't worry about it. Find out what the problem is and fix it.

 

[Sanityy]

What temps you getting ?

I remember getting 55c - 60c with my old mobo, yet my comp was completely stable, whcih lead me to believe the mobo was reading it wrong. So I switched mobos and wallah! temp was 34c

 

[Duvie]

Post your system specs....Stable is definitely the key though, but it is good to get handle on heat cause you don't know if you are on the cusp...

 

[spanner]

I have a 1.2 ghz athlon on a Abit NV7-133R (84 bios). I get case temperature 47-51C and CPU temps 64-76C. My previous mobo (Epox 8k7a) showed my case temps aroun 37C and CPU around 49-56C.

 

[spanner]

I have re-evaluated the temperatures and considering my heatsink (Taisol CEK 7470092) the temperatures seem somewhat normal. The case temperature is probably such because the thermocouple is right next to the socket and doesnt represent true case temperature

 

[Sanityy]

It';s obviously the mobo reading your cpu temp wrong

Get a new mobo or something

 

[spanner]

I decided not to bother with it. I don't overclock. The setup is the most stable I have had sinse my trusty Abit BH6 and I don't really care if the CPU dies on me, I can afford to replace it.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Sanityy,

Oh, how might you have come to that conclusion? especially since when the actual temps of AThlonXP's is in the 50-80C range, when measured with the internal diode properly?. Looks to me like the low-reading boards are just lying to you, and they should be returned.


Mike

 

[Sanityy]

Yeah at first I thought it was wrong, but tried several boards and yeh its right, get around the same temps with them..Running at 44c idle atm

Maybe it's cause I have 3 case fans plus a Volcano9 which pretty much cools it very well

 

[Mikewarrior2]

no, hte point is boards that read low are using socket-thermistors to report temps, and are completely inaccurate, and low reading.

Therefore, a board that read highs often isn't "faulty", but i usually configured to either read the internal diode, or the socket-thermistor is calibrated to better reflect die temperatures.


Mike

 

[Sanityy]

My board reads from the internal diode itself

Ive tried all the diff boards that read from the diode, MSI KT3 Ultra2, Gigabyte 7VRXP Rev2, Epox 8k3a+, Asus A7V333.

From all these boards I get tmpes range from 38c - 45c idle

Veery stable too

 

[Kosh69]

spanner...the nv7-133r had an issue with reporting the cpu temp at 10 degrees higher than actual.....this was supposed to have been fixed with BIOS rev 84 though............there is a newer rev 8M...maybe you could try it.............
NV7-133R BIOS Page