Am I Doing Something Wrong

[DeChache]

I had to replace the mobo on my main machine and now my CPU is running hotter than normal. I'm using the stock heatsink on my Opty 170(at stock) and the thermal paste is AS5.The AS5 was applied following the instructions from the AS website. The AS5 is probably about 3 years old but from a little looking that shouldn't be an issue. Do temps really drop that much after AS5 cures. I'm idling at about 40C on core1 and 33 on core2 with a 20C ambient temp. With the old mobo and stock thermal gunk I was getting 33 on core1 and 28 on core2.

I'm sorry if my post is poorly written I'm typing this up real fast in between classes. If you need to know anything else just let me know.

Opty 170 at stock
Abit AT8

Edit. Old mobo was a Giga-byte K8N-SLI and the temps are being taken with Core Temp .96.1

 

[Dan_D]

How are you measuring the temperatures? Is the board you replaced the same as the new one?

 

[commodore]

Your new mobo is reporting the correct temps as compared to your older one.

I had a Gigabyte board that began reporting higher temps after a bios flash..turns out the higher temps are more accurate.

 

[cuog]

Also how long has the AS5 been on there? you might want to wait around a week before panic over high temperatures. Also might want to double check just in case that the heatsink was set on properly.

 

[Dan_D]

abit boards have always read higher temperatures than other manufactuers. As long as you aren't experiencing problems you are likely ok.

 

[DeChache]

I'm taking the temperatures with Core Temp .96. I went from a Giga-Byte K8N-Pro SLi to the Abit AT8. The heat sink has been on for 2 days. I've reseated the heat sink a few times. The first time I applied the paste and installed the heat sink and pulled it off to check the contact patch. Cleaned everything up and repeated the process.

Load temps seems to be ok. I guess I'll just wait it out and see what happens for a little bit unless one of you guys seems to think I did something wrong somewhere. Idling at 40C is just making me edgy. It seems to be toping out at 50 with orthos so.

I think a lot of it is I get overly paranoid every time I make a major change to my system.