• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

GA-MA790GP-UD4H + Temp Differences

K

Kastang

n00b
Joined
May 29, 2007
Messages
27
I recently purchased a GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-UD4H with a Phenom II x4 940 processor. I applied AS5 thermal paste (properly removing the existing thermal grease from the stock heat sync.. yes I have appllied AS5 before, I know how to do it correctly). This issue I am having is determining the correct temperature of the CPU. BIOS and Easy Tuner 6 (The temperature monitoring software that came on the Gigabyte disk) show the CPU temp @ around 30-31C on Idle. Other software I am more accustom to using such as Speedfan, HWMonitor, and AMD OverDrive are all showing my CPU @ between 43-46 IDLE. There is a 13-16C difference between what BIOS is telling me and what Speedfan is telling me.

Has anyone else had this issue, which piece of software did you find to be accurate? I would like to believe that my CPU is hovering at 30ishC... I already removed the heatsync once to make sure the thermal paste was applied correctly, and it was perfectly so I removed everything and cleaned everything again and reapplied. Since I am receiving the same temperatures each time, I can rule out an issue with the application of the thermal paste.

Thanks!
 
30C sounds corrent.. the 43-46C sounds like its reading the motherboard sensor and not the die sensor.. my 940 sits at about 29C idle with a big typhoon VX heatsink.. look on speedfan for the Core sensor reading.. thats the one you want to go off of.. also another easy way with all of the temp programs.. load up the cpu and see how they change.. if you have a decent heatsink the temp on the 940 should only go up about 10-12C and see how the software reacts to it and see which ones change drasticly and which ones dont..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top