brokentilez
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- Jan 21, 2008
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I have an Intel DG33TL microATX motherboard and an Intel C2D E8400 3Ghz processor.
Problem:
1.) I think my motherboard temperature sensor is reversed.
2.) Getting on my processor heatsink felt like it was going to break my motherboard. If I look at the underside of the motherboard it looks like there is stress on it. I've NEVER seen this happen before on the 20+ computer builds I've done
I'm a firmware revision or two behind (I Think I'm Januarry), but BIOS release notes don't show a fix for temp.
When at Idle Intel Desktop Utility shows my CPU Temperature at 73 Celcius. When I'm encoding audio, video, or if I have 100% CPU usage it quickly drops to 32-35 Celcius. The longer it is at 100% the lower the temperature goes. This is CRAZY. I'm air cooling and there is no way the processor can be cooler than everything else in my case. My Chipset temperature shows it is around 40 C.
I've updated the latest software, I've reset to defaults as intel support says, but still reversed temps. I think there may have been a hardware manufacturing boo boo where they put the sensor on backwards or something. If my computer is off all day in a cool house, as soon as I boot up and go to the BIOS hardware monitoring section it says it's 73C . It says 73C all the time unless I do something processor intensive and then it shoots down so the software is correct in telling me. The BIOS is reading wrong and the software reads from the BIOS.
I've seen lots of these motherboards around and want to know if i'm the only person seeing this temp thing.
Also, I'd like to hear experiences about putting on heat sinks. Do you feel like your heat sink was that difficult to get on the motherboard?
Problem:
1.) I think my motherboard temperature sensor is reversed.
2.) Getting on my processor heatsink felt like it was going to break my motherboard. If I look at the underside of the motherboard it looks like there is stress on it. I've NEVER seen this happen before on the 20+ computer builds I've done
I'm a firmware revision or two behind (I Think I'm Januarry), but BIOS release notes don't show a fix for temp.
When at Idle Intel Desktop Utility shows my CPU Temperature at 73 Celcius. When I'm encoding audio, video, or if I have 100% CPU usage it quickly drops to 32-35 Celcius. The longer it is at 100% the lower the temperature goes. This is CRAZY. I'm air cooling and there is no way the processor can be cooler than everything else in my case. My Chipset temperature shows it is around 40 C.
I've updated the latest software, I've reset to defaults as intel support says, but still reversed temps. I think there may have been a hardware manufacturing boo boo where they put the sensor on backwards or something. If my computer is off all day in a cool house, as soon as I boot up and go to the BIOS hardware monitoring section it says it's 73C . It says 73C all the time unless I do something processor intensive and then it shoots down so the software is correct in telling me. The BIOS is reading wrong and the software reads from the BIOS.
I've seen lots of these motherboards around and want to know if i'm the only person seeing this temp thing.
Also, I'd like to hear experiences about putting on heat sinks. Do you feel like your heat sink was that difficult to get on the motherboard?