rstlne said:
Guess you cant view earlier threads?
I can, and did. Your use of 'it' was ambiguous and could have referred
to two different things. I just needed clarification.
FYI ..
my cpu core was running in the 80c+ range often..
asusprobe saying 60c told me it was good..
The heatsink was on correctly too, it was just WAY WAY WAY less than what I
needed.. I was running my fan speeds all the way down too..
Asus probe saying 60c is telling me BAD.
Obviously the core temp is greater than the socket, but if you are
experiencing a heatwave, and the inside of the house has become
unbearable, it doesn't need a brain surgeon to know that the outside is
also way too hot for comfort even though the temp doesn't match your
inside wall mounted thermometer!
The cooling capacity of the HSF is a combination of the heatsink design,
fan speed and efficiency, and case air temp. If you had the fan running
too slow, asusprobe would have shown that up by giving a CPU value >50c
or so.
This is where I say asus probe can be misleading.. the numbers it provides
are "usually" correct (should be same values that mbm5 pulls). It's just
that probe doesnt allow you to monitor the most important temp in the
system.
While I agree that the most accurate sensor should be the CPU one
itself, I'd argue that for most people, the socket sensor can give a
good enough indication of the state of the CPU temp. You just don't use
the absolute core temp specs given by the manufacturer as the reference.
the Op's problem was verry simple however
he was running his chip @ 200fsb instead of 166 (or some would say 400
instead of 333)
Well I've obviously missed that one!
But its wrong whatever, because increasing the clock speed by that much
wouldn't cause a 'normal' temp to jump to the one quoted.
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