temp on 8IEXP

[tweakwtf]

I'm using a thermaltake volcano 7+ with p4 1.8a on gigabyte 8IEXP, used artic silver 3. I just booted and checked temp in bios, and it is steady at 47/48 on high and medium hsf speeds. I know this is high because i have seen reviews of this heatsink on athlons and the temp was under 40. I read that some other people thought the temps on this board were flakey. Should I wait till I run a program like motherboard monitor before I consider reapplying the AS3? I thought it was strange that the speed of the fan from 4500 to 6000 did not change temp in bios.

tweakwtf

 

[gsethi]

dont worry same thing here.....i have thermaltake Dragon 478 here........used stock before..temps were 47/48 idle.....now 43 idle (no matter what speed i choose).

i used to get 37/38 idle before using stock on a different board so i think that this board is reporting about 10c over in general. Yours should be around 37/38 actual. i was surprised to see a 5C drop when i used dragon 478.

The cool thing that i like about the dragon is that you can switch between 3 different fan speeds and is $10 cheaper than volcano 7+. I also kinda like the oval shape of the heatsink