Is my P4 idle temp high or is it just me?

[Chris B]

Well as it turns out I am far from the only person having temperature problems with this board. Logical explanation is that the temperature reading is screwed on some boards.

It's going back to the store tomorrow, and I'm getting a Gigabyte SINXP1394 instead.

[R.Carter]

P4 processors have an internal thermal diode on the die.

So if the motherboard reports that reading then you'll get a much higher (and more accurate) readings than if you have an external sensor that simply reports the surface temperature.

[SpiralDragon]

i have a P4 2ghz... on my old case ideal temp was around 37c with the new dragon case (and extra fans) my ideal temp is @ 21c and 34 on highloads... love this case.... even my HDs run cool... couldnt touch them befor but now they are as hot as they have never been on.. and i do a lot of HD intensive work


edit: there was this one time when the heatsink leaver broke in my hand and i thought it was secure.... well temp reached 50+c and the pc froze... this was around 4am... called my suplier at 9 and had him deliver a new sink at 10... for a moment i thought the CPU was fried... but it work just fine..

[Hunsow]

The high temp reading on the P4PE is a well known problem and should be fixed with the latest beta bios, which is 1003.11 I believe. It's somewhere on the german asus ftp site.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Tomasz
Yeah, different motherboards give different readings. It all depends on whether or not they use the internal sensor and which sort of sensing chip they use, etc. On some of the newer motherboards, I have seen that they report both the CPU temp and CPU kernel temp, which is usually quit high (60-90 deg C).

Saw this on a ASSUS mobo.....

A real HS and a bis of AS3 cured it
so that those two temps where within 5degrees of each other