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Which to Believe?

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Limp Gawd
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So after losing my old mobo I decided it was time for an upgrade and went with a evga 780i and a Q9300. First thing I did was crank it up to 3ghz at stock voltage with my ram about stock. I have it water cooled by a Danger Den MC-TDX block with a single rad and 2 120mm fans pushing pulling on it. So now that you know all that, checking my temps with core temp and real temp, real temp is reporting 45c idle while core temp is reporting 55c idle. There is a 10c difference between them at all times...which do I believe?
 
tjmax are 95 on the realtemp and 105 on core temp...for Q9xxx, I have mine set to 72C tjmax for my Q9450

some findings that I found yesterday...
here
 
You still don't believe what other people are telling you? Try this: lower your multiplier to 6, drop your FSB to 266, then lower your voltage as low as it can go. Real temp will most likely report temps below ambient given your tjmax settings.
 
The TJmax is 95c on Q9450 so realtemp 2.6 is right the http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1312979 72.4c is the max core temperature it can go up too its Not a tjmax. Now someone might say the TJMax is 60c on 65nm cpus too. When in reality its the core temperature and on 65nm the TJmax was 85c for Dual core. Bye
 
Beleive THIS.

If you set both programs (look under options) to directly tell you the "delta to Tjmax" they will give the same number.

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1031827510&postcount=31
http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1031080147&postcount=5

Read the entire threads of the above posts to understand you cannot determine what your Tjmax is. Realtemps calibration instructions will let you assume some fairly valid things and adjust the program so it is probably more correct. However who gives a shit what idle temps are anyway once you are sure your HS/waterblock mount is good anyway. The amount of thermal headroom while under load is what is important, at least to me.

Or just pick whichever program gives you the number that makes you feel better and go with it.
 
Feelings seemed to be pretty mixed about this but 95c seems to be the right one after reading those posts.
 
Oh and my delta to tjmax is 50c...if I believe this is correct I have some very nice headroom for OC'ing, tempting.
 
coolchu001 said:
tjmax are 95 on the realtemp and 105 on core temp...for Q9xxx, I have mine set to 72C tjmax for my Q9450

some findings that I found yesterday...
here
Click to expand...

Do NOT listen to this guy, he doesn't know what he's talking about and will make you think your CPU is running a lot cooler than it really is. Tjmax on these chips is 95C NOT 72C for the 50th time, coolchu.
 
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