I'm still leaning twords the idea that winbond1 reads the internal sensor on the winbondchip and is not a reading of the northbridge as some have posted. This would explain why improved cooling of the northbridge did not show a decrease in case temp. I'm going to try and rig up a fan that blows directly on the Winbond chip and see if this lowers case temps. I tried to get the info directly from Albatron but was not succesful. They responded right away but did not really answer the question.
Dr Pro,
I am trying to get a better idea of where my system is at temperature wise, but I'm getting some conflicting answers from various sources and was hoping that you could clear things up. My understanding is that case temp is measured on Winbond 1, CPU temp on Winbond 3, and that Winbond 2 is not used, nor are any of the diode channels used. I should mention that I am using Motherboard Monitor 5 to monitor temps and these are the settings they recomend. These setting also most acurately match the readings in the bios. Another point of confusion is as to what is meant by "case temp", is this the internal sensor in the Winbond W83627HF-AW chip, a temp reading from the Intel northbridge, or another sensor. One last question. There was a rumor a while ago that Albatron was preparing a Windows based temp monitoring program for their boards, can we expect to see this any time soon.
Regards and thanks,
Dear Customer,
Thank you for using our product, and sorry for the inconvenience.
Actually,we haven't send our product for testing with hardware monitor utility,and it will detect some error information.We are developing our hardware monitor utility.We will release it soon.
Please check it.
If you have further questions,please do feel free to contact us.
Thanks!
Best Regards.