Pretty good OC and a ?

[Antisocial Virge]

CPUID At stock voltage, will go higher. The thing is that it shows between 60c and 78c in sandra. Now I touch the heatsink and its bairly warm to the touch. My friend who had it before me said it freeked him out to the point where he shut it off and pulled the HS to touch the core. He said it was not hot at all. We have used two different coolers and reset it multiple times and it never made a temp diff. Can the onboard cpu temp sensor be that far off?

 

[Yeti101]

Could just be sandra freaking out :\ may want to try MBM5, you can get it here

Yeti

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: Yeti101
Could just be sandra freaking out :\ may want to try MBM5, you can get it here

Yeti

Tried. It makes my computer beep CONSTANTLY and won't go away till I reboot, and it reports the same thing as Sandra and the bios.

 

[yodayoda]

P4s to my understanding don't use thermistors like AMDs that may have reporting errors (the old +10*C problem with some brands of boards)--they are using on-die thermal contacts and should be very accurate. if you can get a IR thermometer or an external thermistor, you should independently verify that result. what happens when you lower the clockspeed? does the temp go down? if it does, then the temp is correct.

also, check the thermal paste and contact area. you could be getting poor thermal transfer and thus the chip heats up and the heatsink does not heat up.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

Originally posted by: yodayoda
P4s to my understanding don't use thermistors like AMDs that may have reporting errors (the old +10*C problem with some brands of boards)--they are using on-die thermal contacts and should be very accurate. if you can get a IR thermometer or an external thermistor, you should independently verify that result. what happens when you lower the clockspeed? does the temp go down? if it does, then the temp is correct.

also, check the thermal paste and contact area. you could be getting poor thermal transfer and thus the chip heats up and the heatsink does not heat up.

I dropped it back to default and I still get the same temp range. From a very cold boot, till the time I can get into the PC health status section in the bios it already reads 56C. The fact that it can get to that temp in less than 5 seconds leads me to believe that there is a reporting error. I thought, as you stated, about bad heat transfer but we reset the cpu a total of what must have been 6 times, changed AS3 at least twice and used 2 different hs and fans. I think it must just plain be wrong.