What temp to trust?

[groo]

I've got coretemp, and it reads low. says 19/9 for the 2 cores at idle. the 2 number get closer together under load, 34/31.
my Bios sees more than 40 (what I set my fan kickup speed at) and hits 60 pretty quick under load (were I set the alarm).
when I set the fan speed kickup at 50 and alarm at 70, it would idle quiet and never alarm under load.

this is a Brisbane core 6000+ on an Abit NFM2 nView (an old 6150 board) with a Zalman 9700 cooler turned up all the way.

I'm inclined not to believe either reading. Its warmer than 9c in my room, probably about 16c (I'm cheap and its cold out).

Abit took forever to make an updated bios to see the correct Brisbane temps, and hasn't done a bios update since (and now never will), so I don't trust the Bios readings either.

what do you guys think?
am I safe?

 

[QuadPimp]

Hey there groo,

I would try and find out what the TJMax setting is for your CPU and then adjust in Core Temp.

You should get a more reliable reading then.

It's the distance to the TJMax setting that's most important as this is pretty much the shut off point for your CPU.

 

[Zorg]

Low temperature readings with 'Brisbane', 'Lima', 'Sparta'

 

[groo]

guess that answers it.