KK266 thermistor placement

[Fink]

Just got a KK266 for my 1.33GHz T-Bird and noticed the poor placement of the CPU thermistor. It sits 3.5 mm below the CPU; there is no way to get an accurate CPU temp with this!

Is this a common problem with these boards? Anyone else seen this?

 

[el]

nice picture I believe taht it works fine you may just have a lower placement then mine because mine didn't seem that low! btw what camera did you use?

 

[Fink]

I used a Cannon-C3000 (3.3 Mpixels). Bought the camera for a trip to alaska a few months ago, it works great and is a fantastic complement to a 35 mm.

the thermistor is very low, so a flat 10K thermistor taped to the topside of the CPU and hooked into a DigitalDoc will give me more accurate readings of core temps. Resoldering the thermistor is an option but my soldering gun has the wrong tip, besides, the leads on the thermistor look too small to reach to the bottom of the CPU..

 

[guppie]

I just received this mobo the other day and I noticed that too... Although I'm not a handy-man when it comes to soldering and stuff, can you please let me know what alternative there is and what some of you with the same mobo are doing for this? Was the mobo supposed to come with a wire or something that you attach to the CPU/HSF interface? I had a thermistor on my Asus P2B which had some tape on it which attached to the uderside of the HSF/CPU area which gave pretty accurate readings (for the most part). Think I can use that? Cuz my mobo didn't come with anything except for jumpers, cables, manual, CD

 

[FerrariF50]

be happy what you have because i don't have any temp rreading stuff on ym Acer v66Xa motherboard thats why i'm going to get a iwill KK66 motherboard.

 

[Fink]

OK - preliminary results show that the temp between the MB thermistor and the one on the core is ~1.5-3C; the MB thermistor reads low. Means that you can 'trust' the on-board thermistor for a general idea of the temp, just don't set your clock by it.

The good news is that with H2O cooling and 1.33GHz AHYAJ core, the temp is running about 32-33C at idle and 37-39C under load. Not too bad. the bad news is that I knocked a cap of my Adaptec 2940U2W during the upgrade and it will not run stable - guess I will have to go back to IDE for a week or two.

 

[Fink]

Also, a quick note on setting the board up. Make sure that you check the BIOS - my voltage was set at 1.9V from the factory; it was not on 'auto' as it should have been. Other than that, the system has been pretty bullet-proof.

Can't believe how fast this system is over my duron800@1000.