Temp gauge must be wrong.. 64c underload?

[Fingers]

P3 800 coppermine 133mhz (yes i know it should be 100, but you live and learn)
MSI Intel 815e pro chipset mb
256 meg
Stock cooler !!! at 5300 rpm

Running at stock fbs 133 vcore 1.65 tick over is 46c full load 57c

Push it to 166 vcore 1.70 and tick over now 48c full load 62c

Chassis is 38c tick over and 42c loaded for both settings

These alarming temps cant be right ( he says hopefully ) as there is no locking up during prolonged high load and things seem to be working ok.

But the temps are a bit worrying I dont wish to burn out my new chip and mb

[Spode]

not the best of tests to do, but does the heatsink feel bloody hot? What does the bios report?

[Fingers]

The Bios is reporting chip 53c Chassis 39c

But the cooler is actually Cool to touch, even at the base near the chip.

Ether the chips not touching the cooler (which iam sure it is) or the temp gauge is not calibrated?

The cooler had a square of sticky glue type ****e (what ever it is) on the base where it sits on the chip? I thought it was to help heat transference? But I could be wrong, and its actualy stopping the heat transfer. I thought metal to metal would be better but all the coolers seam to have this stuff on the base now.

The plot thickens ....... dun dun.....daaaaaaaa...........

[Tachyon]

Fingers (Feb 04, 2001 07:19 p.m.):
The Bios is reporting chip 53c Chassis 39c

But the cooler is actually Cool to touch, even at the base near the chip.

Ether the chips not touching the cooler (which iam sure it is) or the temp gauge is not calibrated?

The cooler had a square of sticky glue type ****e (what ever it is) on the base where it sits on the chip? I thought it was to help heat transference? But I could be wrong, and its actualy stopping the heat transfer. I thought metal to metal would be better but all the coolers seam to have this stuff on the base now.

The plot thickens ....... dun dun.....daaaaaaaa...........

I believe that you'd do better with a different HSF, but you may want to try removing the stuff that came with the heat sink and try something like Arctic Silver.

[Tim-]

The thermal tape is better than no compound, but much worse than Arctic Silver or even generic thermal grease.

The stock coolers are marginal for maximum overclocking, so a better cooler would be a good investment.

[Fingers]

Thanks for the tip re a better cooler guys.

But do you think the temp gauge could be out?........I meen if the cooler is cool and the comps stable at 166 fbs, 62c cant be right. The thing would locking all the time wouldnt it? The temps at stock settings seem to be off the map too.
( can you sence the complete novice )

Thanks again

[Spode]

IMO it could be out - try measuring the cpu temperature with a probe if ya can get one.