Temps reading too high?

[The Donut]

Hey guys,

I installed the watercooling kit I won for the UT2004 tournament at a local LAN here, and on the display it says 26c which is excellent, 29c under full load.

However, on Motherboard monitor it says 38, and 43 under load, now I know the sensor for the cooling is built onto the waterblock, and I also know the IC7-MAX3 calculates temperatures very wierdly and is innacurate, I just want to know which one should I trust more?

Abit IC7 MAX3
Corsair Hydrocool 200

 

[Nazo]

Go with the lower one unless that's a very cheap watercooling kit. Otherwise you are running pretty darned near my range, and I'm using a plain old HSF with a hot room and an improperly cooled case...

 

[mordeki]

I was worried about my temps when I first got my Abit mobo. Just about every hardware forum I've read has said most Abit's tend to display about 10c too high.

 

[The Donut]

nice, thanks.

the hydrocool is about $300 to buy apparently

 

[Nazo]

I have an idea. Probably not necessary, but why not just take the two and average them. That way if you guess wrong, you can't be off by TOO much while still not overly under or overestimating.

Probably more work than necessary, just a thought. Definitely a $300 watercooling kits should more than outperform my current setup though, so it's obvious the high numbers are off unless something is very badly set up.

 

[The Donut]

I've also heard that Abit over-reads alot, especially the MAX3, it calculates something different, I dunno lol