Yes, I know about the bottom link, but there is precious little on this anywhere on the net it seems. I think I was more or less just illustrating that it's definitely not in the same place depending on whether the board is reference or not.
Regardless, nowadays(or at least in this generation) the mobo temp sensor seems invariably to be an embedded diode junction within the ITE chip which allows monitoring.
Now, to me this begs the question, "if it's embedded, how much internal electronics heat is it picking up in addition to ambient internal case temp".
btw. where's my damn CPU. Geeese it's taking a long time.
lol.