ASUS Maximus Formula - temperatures

Hello

Ive read alot about the "crappy" bios releases for the recent asus boards, and one thing that seems to be affected are the temperatures on the motherboard. I have checked my own a few times and I am unsure what to make of the north- and southbridge temperatures.

CPU: e6850 @ stock 3GHz (Thermalright 120 extreme heatsink + Scythe 120mm Fan)
Ram: Corsair 4*1 GB
Powersupply: Corsair hx620

My CPU runs very cool, low 20s (Celcius) normally and if I stress the CPU I get to about 33-34 degrees. I have low ambient temperatures and the air is dry during winter.

The PSU gets fairly hot and heats up the inside of the case abit, but case temps are usually around 30 degrees ( I have high air circulation around the CPU, thus cpu temp can go below casetemp by quite alot sometimes)

Now the temps I have issues with: At stock voltage and no overclock the NB and SB are running in the 40s and if I touch the heatsinks that are connected by heatpipes, they feel hot. (readings are made with asus probe which apparently reports the wrong temps, but since the also feel hot, the reading is probably not off by to much)

When should I start to worry about NB/SB temps, how high is to high so to speak. On my old boards i havent had anything fancy like heatpipes for cooling and they stayed quite cool....

Thankful for any replies (even a friday joke would be nice)
/Torbjörn

Torbjorn, I've got the same motherboard for the past week now, with similar specs as you. CPU-E6850, RAM-2 gig corsair 6400C4, Video-8800GT Asus, Case-Antec 900 with 5 fans, PSU-850 Watt OCZ gamestream. My temps for CPU/MB are in the low 20 degrees celcius, and the NB and SB are between 27 to 34 degrees celcuis. I didn't touch the heatsinks on them, but will try sometime this week. I'm currently running bios version 0505 and system is running very good (just gotta disable chassis intruded in bios). I think if it's below 45 degree celcius, this is acceptable (not sure). How are your programs running? Are they running good? Also, for me I'm able to play games for hours and my temps move up by 2 to 4 degrees, how about you? Let me know and I'll check out my stuff too.

I have the SE and my NB never goes above 38. Also I never rely on the board for the CPU temp, I always use coretemp.

Also BIOS 907 works splendidly well, OC's well, temps are right on too.

Yeah I never understood the whole CPU temp thing with any asus boards. If they make a BIOS and it reports it a real temp(close to coretemp reading) people complain up the wing wang that the BIOS is making the CPU run too hot. I can attest to the fact that all of the other reading on the board are pretty accurate though. Anyway 907 is a good BIOS, just use coretemp to get real CPU temp results as always.

One thing you need to know up front.... Your CPU idle temperatures can NOT be lower than your ambient temperatures. You need to calibrate your thermal monitoring. It's physics man, impossible that you're idleing in the 20s and case temp is 30c....

Okay... as suggested by a previous user, I just ran Core Temp and it reports my CPU at idle at 45 degrees. If ASUS Probe is under-reporting the temps (Probe reports my CPU at 36 degrees), then are my reported NB/SB 51/47 temperatures running into the 60 degree range? Ambient room temp is 23 degrees, FYI.

Any idea if these temps also happen with P5E? (since both are practically identical).

Cheers.

i have, maximus extreme and ran it for a bit without water cooling on nb. temps always around 40-45 idle. got the watercooling going yesterday and it now runs at 41 idle. i have e6750 i tried overclocking to check if temps were right, put it to 3.6 and the temp dropped by half a degree on the nb and sb!?!? under load it doesnt go up ( i know its water cooling but i dont think its normal). should the nb be running a lot cooler than it used to without water cooling? cpu running fine, idle at 25, 28 under load at stok (with ai probe, gotta get coretemp) any ideas? i have 0905 bios

After reading everyone's posts in the thread I'm starting to get more concerned with my setup. A stock basic system with 6850 processor, 4 GB ram and 8800GT. Stock fan on cpu and nb/sb on stock fins

CoreTemp shows 77 (probe @60)
NB/SB based on probe is at 68/60!
Ambient room temp is 26 at present

At one time I read on another forum that the heatsinks on the NB/SB was assembled poorly with the thermal paste not applied well/correctly. I'm considering upgrading my CPU fan from stock or going all liquid with NB/SB while picking up a block to tie in the CPU as well.

I feel like in all measures I'm hitting the upper end of the tolerances (even though Probe is firing all the alarms -- for the CPU/NB/SB/ even MB at times) and the system isn't even stressed!

Does anybody else think I should re-think my install or would I be ok to continue operating at these fairly high temps?

If this is true, and not a false reading I would not turn the comp on! Those temps are way to high!