Simple question about temp readings

[Justorq]

I have an Asus motherboard and it reads 66C for my CPU temp while MBM5 and Sandra both read around 30C which one should I trust the most.
I do have another question about Vcore. Is it safe to boost it a bit or can it damage my CPU ?
I just need reassurance !

 

[sohcrates]

what does your bios hardware monitoring report the temps at?

i'd probably trust MBM5 over asus probe....but would like to know what the bios says

as far as vcore, it is relatively safe to raise it a bit, but you should really only be doing so if you are overclocking..and you'll also want to make sure you have a good HSF on the cpu

 

[Justorq]

my bios and the Asus probe both read about 65C but I think MBM5 is a lot more accurate because I just touched the heatsink while playing a game and it wasn't hot at all

 

[Duvie]

post this in the case cooling section or pm mikewarrior...He is the resident genius on the asus probes and other soket a thermal readings...

What speed is cpu??? I would only expect 30c if you had less then a 800mhz athlon or a duron with a good aftermarket hsf....

I use to get 32c (as reported my sandra/ mbm5.0) with my tbird 750@825 with super cool HSF (6800rpms)
: with Biostar KT133 board

I use to get 38c (as reported by sandra/ mbm 5.0) with my tbird 1100@1200 with super cool HSF (60mm @5400rpm)
: with Biostar KT133 board


As of now sandra doesn't read my 1.4tbird on ecs board at all right...It says 25c for cpu while the hardware monitor says 42c...mbm 5.0 read it right though, at least matching hardware monitor...25c is obvios way wrong for air cooling on a 1.4 tbird with average at best hSF...

 

[AthlonMan]

My system does not go above 50 C, and system temp does not go above 27 C.

Goto 2cooltek.com

and order an ALPHA PAL8045. But goto Alpha's site off 2cooltek.com and check to make sure that PAL8045 can fit on your board. If it does not then get an ALPHA PEP66. You should not need to worry about damaging anything with an ALPHA heatsink.

 

[Justorq]

check my rig for more info ...
but I'm basically running a K6-3+ 450 at 550 MHz on an ASUS P5A.
The HSF I'm using is pretty decent.

 

[Duvie]

That being said I think sandra is right??? I can't believ those early chips could have handled or let alone produced that much heat...

It is not a soket a anyways so disregard my comparisons...


If it feels cool to warm and you are having no issues then don't worry about it...Like I said 66c would most likely be majorly hosing your system with a k63...

 

[Justorq]

Thx man !
Guess my bios is reading it wrong then ... the k6-3+ I have was made for laptops... it's a .18u and not a .25u like the normal k6-3 so it would be kinda weird to have a 65C temp when I have a huge heatsink on top of it.

 

[Justorq]

I have one more question, the standard Vcore for the K6-3+ is 2.0V but it's at 2.1V right now... I want to boost the CPU to 600MHz but to do that I have to up the Vcore to maybe 2.3V cuz 2.2V isn't enough... but I don't know if it might damage the CPU in the long run !

 

[Duvie]

Take that question over to the ocing forum...I can't help you there...

 

[Justorq]

Thx anyways for all ur help