CPU Core Temp High

[bad87fiero]

Hello ladies and gents, A few months ago I built myself a rig using some old parts from my old computer. My old computer was a Gateway that had the AMD Phenom X4 9600 2.3GHz. The reason I bought the new rig was because we had a power outage and it zapped my ethernet capability(didn't even think about PCI slot for ethernet). I have a gut feeling that the outage may have also zapped something in the CPU.

Speedfan readings:

CPU Usage: 1.7%

System: 35C
CPU: 38C
AUX: 31C
Core: 101C

Specs

ASRock A785GXH/128M
Phenom 9600 x4 2.3GHz
ATI Radeon HD 3600 PCIe x2
6GB DDR2 1066
1TB
320GB x2
APEVIA ATX-JV650W


My Everest report can be found here

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=56096

 

[xaira]

that 101*C is unrealistic

 

[bad87fiero]

Yeah, thats something like 215*F, I am totally lost with this rig, I have built plenty of machines but this one has me totally confused. The thing is if I unplug the CPU fan the heatsink will get warm, if I plug it in the heatsink will be cool to the touch so one would think its being efficient. But, my fathers computer, which uses the same processor but a larger heatsink, the heatsink will just about burn your finger when you touch it but yet he can run forever without crashing doing just about anything.

 

[xaira]

ur dads fan seems not to be doing its job correctly, i had that cpu in the past, and even in the tropical climate im located in, the temp was very good withthe stock cooler, but i would advise you to change ur dads fan, a heatsink experiencing good airflow should never get hot enough to burn, its suppose to be the way urs is, the 101*C is just a misreading of the sensor, this happens, i wouldnt worry about it

 

[bad87fiero]

The thing is, the misreading is causing the computer to shut down when playing things as trivial as yoville on facebook, the reading jumps from 101* to 115*, still a 14*C rise in temp.

 

[toker509]

I have the same exact problem on the same exact motherboard but i have a Phenom 9850 Black Edition, I had undervolt and underclock the CPU manually in the bios to stop from overheating during regular use.

Doing some research i have figured out that the Phenom 1 processors have a problem with the 780G based chipsets which is similar to what is in this Motherboard the 785G Chipset.

http://www.slashgear.com/amd-blames-motherboards-for-overheating-phenom-x4-cpus-2911391/

I am going to get a Phenom II on monday so hopefully this will resolve the issue, i will post here if it doesnt fix anything.