I'm cooling with water and I have Abit NF7-S 2.0. for temperature I go by the only temp sensor I have. I'm thinking that your socket maybe the room temperatuer, and the diode is the cpu. Because my room temp is about 30C and my cpu temp is about 44C and I'm running at 2.5Ghz @ 1.9v. Actually my motherboard undervolts by quite a bit. I have it set to 1.9v in the bios but according to mbm5, it's reading 1.81-1.82v, sometimes 1.84v and then sometime 1.87v. Could this be related to my psu? I have an Antec Truepower 430w, and the 12v rail reads 11.86 all the time, could I have gotten a bad antec true? Or is mbm5 just inaccurate? Right now I'm just priming, and still burning this chip in. Hopefully I can try upping the fsb tomorrow morning. Right now it's at 209x12. This chip is doing 200mhz more than my 2100+ at the same voltage, so I'm quite pleased.
Edit: Strange thing with the voltages. I was priming and the voltage got down to 1.79v in mbm5, and so I thought, that's too much of an undervolt. So I rebooted and upped the voltage from 1.9v to 1.93v, and mbm5 showed the voltage to be 1.89v, and I thought that's more like it. But when I tried to run prime95, it froze the computer right away. Weird, because at 1.9v when it was undervolting, prime95 ran for 30 minutes. So I'm thinking is it true what the say about the 1700+ DLT3C not able to except high voltages? Or is this a 1700+ DLT3C and NF7-S 2.0 problem? Anyone have any ideas? Right now I'm back to 1.9v in bios, and gonna run prime95 longer, and see if it'll error after a longer run.