I have been playing arond for a few weeks with a mobile barton 2500+ and have been getting very high temp. from the diode and the socket and was curious if it was possible that there may be a problem with the thermal diode. I have underclocked the chip as low as 1200mhz and get a reading of almost 60C from the diode. When I clock up 2100mhz the temp goes to 69C. Both readings are using MBM at idle. As you would guess, under load the temp really gets hot.
I am using a barton CPU cooler and the copper is quite cool to the touch, also I have not had any stability problems when running very demanding games such as FarCry!
One other thing to note: MOBO is ASUS A7N8X-X and when I set the voltage in BIOS and look at the voltage to the CPU when in windows with ASUS probe it always reports 1.65V to the CPU regardles of how low I set the voltage in BIOS? Does this sound like a faulty MOBO?
I am using a barton CPU cooler and the copper is quite cool to the touch, also I have not had any stability problems when running very demanding games such as FarCry!
One other thing to note: MOBO is ASUS A7N8X-X and when I set the voltage in BIOS and look at the voltage to the CPU when in windows with ASUS probe it always reports 1.65V to the CPU regardles of how low I set the voltage in BIOS? Does this sound like a faulty MOBO?