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E6600 temps high after bios flash?

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manofmandango

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Hello everyone, new here so show me some love. Anyways, my problem is as such. I built a new rig a few weeks back and other than a few minor problems its been great.

Specs:

Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
Core 2 Duo E6600
2Gb OCZ DDR2-800
BFG Geforce 7950GT 512mb
36.7Gb Western Digital Raptor
160Gb Seagate Barracuda
ETC.

I had a small stability/lock up problem so I flashed the bios. Prior to flashing, my cpu temps were showing at around 35-37c idle. Now after they idle around 50-55c! Any ideas? Could it be that the previous bios were reading the temps incorrectly? Or are these the incorrect temps. Any help would be appreciated. (Using stock heatsink)
 
When i flashed the bios on my asus mb, the revision gave me a lot more cpu options and the ability to lower my multiplyer. Could be something got changed by the bios update, hit the "return to default" option and boot into windows and check the temps with coretemp beta. Let us now how that goes.

hmmm...could be a qfan issue too. Did the cpu fan spin faster or slower before the revision, if you remember anyway.
 
I've never had q-fan enabled. So it should be spinning at the same rpm as before the flash. I will get back to you guys on the coretemp beta results. I've got a Business Information Systems final tomorrow.

~manofmandango
 
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Temps have dropped a little bit. I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to need a probe to get an accurate reading, or if this is the average temp for a core 2 duo. Any thoughts?
 
manofmandango said:
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Temps have dropped a little bit. I'm starting to wonder if I'm going to need a probe to get an accurate reading, or if this is the average temp for a core 2 duo. Any thoughts?
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Stockcooling w/o clocking should not get higher than 50
 
That is pretty high for idle, I try reseating the cpu cooler. Very strange that the temps changed after the bios flash. Try reflashing back to old bios and use coretemp and see if they drop. I willing to bet that they don't.
Hows the airflow through the case?
 
I think it was inaccuracy in the bios temp gage.. not the bios changing the temp. And the case is the Antec P180B, so airflow is very good. No problems there. I may try resitting the heatsink. I was hoping I wouldn't have to until I bought a better one, but temps are what's important right now. Keep the comments coming and I'll keep updating to the best of my ability.
 
CoreTemp and TAT read high for me as well. At idle I read around 49C. This is with stock clock speeds.

I have already lapped the processor and heatsink... and have a small amount of AS5 in between. The heatsink doesn't even feel warm.... I don't understand it.

My Bios, hardware monitor and Speedfan all read the idle temperature at 38C... which is more realistic. I am running a Gigabyte DS3 board.
 
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