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My Asus motherboard (A7V133) reports a "motherboard" temperature via the BIOS. Right now I am choosing to believe that that represents case temp (it seems plausible.)
But what is it really? Northbridge temp? Southbridge temp? The temp of some randomly chosen location on the PCB?
By the way I know a Tbird doesn't report die temp, so the MB is reporting as "CPU temp" its estimate of CPU temp from the resistor-looking things laying around in the socket? There isn't anything sticking up to contact the under surface of the package ...
... I upgraded to the latest Asus Probe and my CPU temp dropped 10C -- that was easy!
the wesson
But what is it really? Northbridge temp? Southbridge temp? The temp of some randomly chosen location on the PCB?
By the way I know a Tbird doesn't report die temp, so the MB is reporting as "CPU temp" its estimate of CPU temp from the resistor-looking things laying around in the socket? There isn't anything sticking up to contact the under surface of the package ...
... I upgraded to the latest Asus Probe and my CPU temp dropped 10C -- that was easy!
the wesson
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