[ryanmartini]

well right now i have a declocked celeron d because i starved my cpu of data from one stick of ram not in the dual channel. i have an abit is7-e and the newest bios revision. in the bios it sais 55, abit utility 52.5 and mobo monitor sais 40-41. this thing is open case with it about 72[F] degrees in my room. i am using the stock heatsync with the stock paste. if i buy silver thermal paste, would it make a descent difference? i also today baught a 120mm case fan to make a duct for the cpu.

so what i need to know is what temperature sounds right, which one do you think i should believe.


thank you,

ryan

[musawi]

They all used different sensors, so really all of them are right but I would believe what the BIOS says. Let the rest back me up on this.

[realtadiquantu]

52.5 sounds about right.

[@md0Cer]

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=329015

BTW, I recomend you use motherboard monitor 5. You can configure it to read your hard drive temp, your motherboard temp, your CPU core temp, and your CPU socket temp. Just about any temperature sensor your system reports, you should be able to read it. You just mess around with the different sensors and assign them to different things. Your CPU core typically is the highest, next is the socket or the motherboard temp, either of the two, and then the lowest should be your hard drive, if you have a typical cooling system.

In that link I will get around to posting a guide on how to set up MBM and I will give links to places to download it.

[ryanmartini]

heh i have motherboard monitor five, i set it to IS7-G and it reads 38-40 idle. that sounds more reasonable than 55 at idle, sry but i cant believe these cpu's are that hot.

[BatousaiRyu]

if you really want to look feel the heatsink 55 is much over your skin temp, even with the hsf on there you should be able to feel a great difference between skin and hsf temp... try to get as close to the middle bottom of the hsf to touch... nice way to tell if your really burning the poor thing :P