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[tonschk]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Welcome to the forums tonschk. :wavey:
Software temperature (and voltage) monitoring is notorious for having errors and inaccuracies. On top of that, lots the 45nm Intel dual core processors have been cropping up with internal temperature diode problems, making accurate software temperature monitoring from these diodes about impossible. As screwballl suggested, try using another temperature monitoring program like CoreTemp or SpeedFan and see what happens.

Thank you for the answer, i check the temperature with the bios when switch on again the pc after been running for many hours, and bios give me about 35 celsius, when check with core temp give me 49 around , i want to check with another monitor , can you give advice please ? speed fan is helpful only for HDD , and video card temp , the CPU temp is a mess , dont missunderstood please , core temp are also in celsius

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by tonschk

Thank you for the answer, i check the temperature with the bios when switch on again the pc after been running for many hours, and bios give me about 35 celsius, when check with core temp give me 49 around , i want to check with another monitor , can you give advice please ? speed fan is helpful only for HDD , and video card temp , the CPU temp is a mess , dont missunderstood please , core temp are also in celsius

CoreTemp will give you the most accurate estimation of temps; you can read why here. The developers also keep CoreTemp updated.

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by One4yu2c

CoreTemp will give you the most accurate estimation of temps; you can read why here. The developers also keep CoreTemp updated.

Agreed, CoreTemp is probably your best bet for software temperature monitoring. Just keep in mind that CoreTemp is reading the temperature from the processor, not an external probe. So if the processor is giving inaccurate temps, then CoreTemp will do the same (garbage in = garbage out). There have been a handful of people complaining about messed up thermal sensors on their E8400 and similar processors.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by gvblake22

Agreed, CoreTemp is probably your best bet for software temperature monitoring. Just keep in mind that CoreTemp is reading the temperature from the processor, not an external probe. So if the processor is giving inaccurate temps, then CoreTemp will do the same (garbage in = garbage out). There have been a handful of people complaining about messed up thermal sensors on their E8400 and similar processors.

True about garbage in garbage out.
My E8400 gives the same temps stock or fully OC'ed out, idle and load got around 10C difference and load I reach 60C and +. The air surrounding the whole CPU is damned cold and so is the heatsink. Contact is good between the CPU and the heatsink, I'm using ICD7. I can't imagine what it would be with the stock heatsink if those temps were true, but everything points me to believe that those temps are rubbish or there's an offset that should be applied (-10 maybe? -15? Who knows) or that simply the sensor is down right whack. The only other thing I can think of is IHS not touching the cores properly, but I would have got problems by now I think, which I didn't so far.

[screwballl]

maybe thats one good reason for staying with the E6600 or Q6600s for now??
I know there is about a 10-15º difference between load and idle with my E6600.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by screwballl

maybe thats one good reason for staying with the E6600 or Q6600s for now??
I know there is about a 10-15º difference between load and idle with my E6600.

Well there's a big thing going with Core Temp right now and how it take DTS as a linear value, when it appears it's not linear. All in all, meaning that Core Temp isn't exactly the most reliable program in certain conditions. Intel doesn't quite leak enough information about their desktop line of processors and it's always very hard for developers to code accordingly.
For instance, there's many people with sub ambient temperatures with Core Temp on E6400/6600 CPU's if I remember and many people with way too high temperatures with E8000 series.

[theburan]

Not to mention core temp still doesn't work on vista64... which always makes me sad. :(

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by theburan

Not to mention core temp still doesn't work on vista64... which always makes me sad. :(

Nope that's not true. 0.97, updated on March 5th works under Vista 64. CoolIT bought a driver license for CoreTemp, props to them guys. :)

[theburan]

woot! Gonna have to go install that later tonight then. Thanks for that info.

[tonschk]

I build my first PC ,with this components and two exhaust 140mm Yate Loon fans 1400RPM at the top of the case , one enermax 120mm exhaust 1000rpm at the back plus another 100mm scythe fan 1500RPM exhaust at the back ,the CPU cooler coolermaster Hyper 212 with 120mm fan is properly seated with 80% silver thermal paste , dont understand why this 49 C degrees idle ,I think is too much , I dont overclock anything

CPU:Intel Core2Duo E8400 6Mb cache
Board: FOXCONN Mars
Memory: 3 gb Dont remembername(3 x 1 gb DDR2 800MHz)
Video Card: Sparkle Fanless Cool-pipe 8800GT 512MB
HDD: Hitachi sata Deskstar 320Gb 7200 RPM
Sound Card: on board
Case: Coolermaster CM690
Power Supply:Seasonic 650w Energy Plus
CPU cooler :Coolermaster Hyper 212
Operating System: Windows XP home
Optical DVD :Samsung lightScribe sata SH-S203