I have a gigabyte 7N400 Pro that gives me CPU Core temps and CPU Socket Temps.. the socket temps are pretty low.. in the 30C range where the core temps are in the 60C range.. most motherboards Ive used only give me one temp for the cpu.. which one should I be going off of? I have an SI-97 thermalright heatsink on it but im getting these high temps on the CORE reading but good temps on the SOCKET reading. Thanks for any help on this.
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Question on Barton temps..
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What program are you using to read temps? I had that board and don't remember 2 CPU temps. However, it did read about 10c higher than actual on the CPU. I imagine the 30c is your ambient/motherboard temp and the 60c is your CPU, which is actually 50c but still high. Are you sure you applied your thermal compound correctly?
Most socket a boards have a thermal diode in the space in the middle of the socket. And All chips from T-Bred on up also have an internal thermister built into the die.
The should be taken with a grain of salt or two. I never once heard of the thermal diode being accurate becouse of where it is, there is no way for it to read the actual temp of the chip.As far as the internal thermister, the old socket a chips had a bug that prevented them from being read correctly, so ALOT of BIOSes had to try and compensate for the bug, which meant that no two boards would read the thermister the same.
Like I said it is a crap shoot. If it runs fine then you have nothing to worry about, but if you are worried then you can get a good after market cooler.
The should be taken with a grain of salt or two. I never once heard of the thermal diode being accurate becouse of where it is, there is no way for it to read the actual temp of the chip.As far as the internal thermister, the old socket a chips had a bug that prevented them from being read correctly, so ALOT of BIOSes had to try and compensate for the bug, which meant that no two boards would read the thermister the same.
Like I said it is a crap shoot. If it runs fine then you have nothing to worry about, but if you are worried then you can get a good after market cooler.
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Gigabyte boards read high, plenty of posts in the AMD corporate forum with the same question... One guy emailed Gigabyte, GA stated they read high... That was it...
If the heatsink is warm to the touch and not scorching you, then your CPU will be Okay...
As an aside, plenty of the GA boards were stuffed with absolute garbage capacitors... that may get your cpu before the heat does...
If the heatsink is warm to the touch and not scorching you, then your CPU will be Okay...
As an aside, plenty of the GA boards were stuffed with absolute garbage capacitors... that may get your cpu before the heat does...
I dont doubt the caps thing.. ive seen atleast one die becuase of this problem a while back and it was also a Socket A board. Atleast 4 or 5 caps were swollen and had stuff leaking out of the tops of them. The system has always been stable but I wanted to make sure. As for the guy who posted above saying I need a good cooler Im already using a nice thermalright cooler on this thing with a 92mm Panaflow Medium fan.