Extremely High E6400 temps ... Please Help!

[chased13]

gigabyte s3
e6400 at stock speed (8x266)
2gb gskill ddr2 800

my bios is giving me a cpu temp of over 60!

i have arctic silver 5 on my cpu, i put a thin layer on the top of the cpu

is this incorrectly read? or am i buring out my cpu!

any advice?

 

[peetul83]

I've heard these gigabyte boards have faulty sensors. If you touch the heatsink, does it feel hot or warm? I had my cpu running at 50 degrees before and it felt luke warm on my heatsink.

 

[chuckshissle]

Over 60c, that sound bad at idle. Well re-install that cooler. Clean surfaces. Apply uniform paper thin thermal paste and mount the cooler snuggly. Them measure temps again. If it's still at 60c then touch the HSF, at 60c the bottom part of the cooler it should be hot to your touch. If so then it's really at 60c if not then the sensors are crappy.

Yes, Gigabyte have that temp sensor problem as the same with my GA-8N SLI Royal board. It's not giving me accurate temps. So I use other softwares but still not good temps. I got a drive bay temp sensor to accurately monitor the temps of my cpu.

 

[djgandy]

Leave the system off for a while, long enough for it to cool to room temp.
Turn on, get in the bios, check the cpu temp.
If the cpu temperature goes up crazy quick, then it's most likely the hsf is not installed correctly.

 

[chased13]

im guessing its a faulty sensor,

when i first turn it on it will read mid 50s and then if i quick turn it off after a load session it will read about mid 60s.

when i touch the heatsink it feels about room temp, or atleast the sys temp of 40c, but nothing hotter than that.

im guessing it might be off like 20c? that would make sense because it isnt possible for the cpu to be 20c over room temp 2seconds after boot

speed fan is giving me temp1: 32c
temp 2: 52c and right now all im doing is web browsing!

coould it be that temp 2 is the north bridge? that is the one component that actually feels hot.

 

[evilr00t]

Try Intel TAT:
http://www.ati-power.fr/Intel-TAT,dl644.htm

 

[chased13]

tat gives me around 70c on each core!

grrrrrrr

but....if the sensor is screwy, it wouldnt matter whether it was read in bios or by some program, becuase they are both usign the same sensor

this is frustrating because i cant decide whether im frying my cpu or if its jsut a funky sensor.

 

[evilr00t]

TAT doesn't lie... that's what the chip uses to decide whether to throttle. Try rotating your heatsink 90 degrees.
BIOS sensors usually are onboard temp sensors, not on-chip die thermistors.

 

[chased13]

thanks alot evilroot,

after messing around with the heatsink, ive gotten the temps to drop about 15c

now on tat it seems to idle at 55 and on load it doesnt get past 69c

this still seems high though, would you guys say these are acceptable temps?

 

[chased13]

speed fan reads an idle of 40 while tat reads an idle of 55

which schould i believe?

bios also says around 40

 

[dasickninja]

Trust the TAT. The BIOS is testing without a full load on the processor.

 

[chased13]

well im talking idle heere, of if i just kill power and quick turn it on.

why should i trust tat over speed fan? i mean 15c is a big deal

and i was planning on ocing this, but i need to straighten out temps first

 

[peetul83]

Have you tried undervolting your cpu? Stock is about 1.35-1.325. My chip can run stable at 1.26v. It has dropped my temps about 5 degrees in doing so.