I have the lastest bios for the board. F8a. I think it's weird that overclocking it lowered the core temp, but it would still never change more than 1 degree under idle or load.
right now I have it back at stock settings, still idling and loading at 70-71 on both cores, but the "cpu...
this is so weird. I actually did a small OC on stock voltage to 3.2 and I was receiving lower core temperatures. instead of the usual constant ~70, it now stays at ~65C idle and under full load. (in coretemp and everest)
Hey,
I just built my new system Saturday.
E8400 stock
Big Typhoon Cooler
Antec 900 Case
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (with newest bios)
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 1066
BFG 880gt
I had the stock cooler on my e8400 until today. I removed the included heatpad and applied arctic silver 5...