Maybe you can enlighten me...

Hi all!
I know that asus mobos usually report low temps, abit reports higher temps than actually is...and what about gigabyte ? I'm considering to buy one for my old P4 to play a bit with overclock...can i trust the probes on a gigabyte ?
Thanks!

Regards,

Antonio

they are mostly reliable, as far as i know. i know that i get different temps in speedfan and in the bios. bios is about 6C higher than what speedfan reports.

im running a 8KNXP rev. 2

thats right.. i used to have 8knxp rev1 and now i have 8anxp-d both report about 6c higher than speed fan.. speed fan is the program to trust specially on gigabyte boards.

BIOS will show higher temps than in Windows. It puts a load on the CPU and makes it show higher than a Windows based utility. Gigabyte has a pretty monitoring program, I found it to be pretty accurate. You can't fiddle with the fans, you can sure play with just about everything else though.


Gigabyte has pretty good quality control. Each board is tested before it leaves the factory.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1722 Here is were I get this information.