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Thermal Spike

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bozo1

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I recently put together a new system - Thunderbird 1.33Ghz (266MHZ) and Asus A7A266 board, Globalwin CAK38 heatsink/fan, 512M Crucial PC2100 RAM, etc.

The CPU shows to be running at about 41 degrees in normal use. Every few hours or so, the Asusprobe utility will go off and show the CPU temperature to spike off the scale for maybe a second and then go right back to normal.

Any ideas? I am planning on reseating the heatsink and applying some Artic Silver thermal goo tonight but don't know if I am seeing an actual problem or a glitch in the mobo monitor or what.

Thanks
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My guess would be a glitch in the software or sensor. You should try to load up to full temp and see what it levels at to be sure though. Try running a program like RC5 (where to find it is on the main page of anandtech as a sub category like forums) or CPUBurn 3 and really heat it up.
 
I'm going to try mobo monitor and see if I get different results. While not running RC5, I am searching for ET which runs it up just the same. Thanks.

 
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