My Phenom X4 95 running way too hot?

crispy345

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Hello again. I recently got a free CM690 case, along with an 970a-g45 motherboard from a friend, however, he asked me if I wanted to buy his Phenom X4 along with a GTS450 for 80 bucks. I thought that was quite a good deal, so he said I could try the parts before I bought them :) So I got all the parts home, and built it temporarily in the case. I mounted the cooler with the stock thermal compund and turned the system on. To my suprise, the CPU, according to the BIOS was at 57 degrees celsius :confused: I thought that was way too high, so I doublechecked the cooler, but without seeing anything wrong.. I changed the thermalcompund, even tried toothpaste, but without going any further. I also tried another heatsink, but well, still 52 degrees in the BIOS. I just went ahead and intalled Windows, and thought I could check the temps there. Amazingly, both SpeedFan and HWMonitor said the processor was at 29 degrees. How, I don't know, but to say it right, I would rather trust the BIOS reading rather than the programs. I tried to run Prime95, the fan turned all the way up, and the readings from the programs got up in the 50's. One thing I have noticed is that the fan ramps up and down, when i'm just doing basic things like browsing the web (i have not tried any games) It is very annoying, but well, no big problem to me (since I already have my rockstable 2400-rig) So, have any of you guys had problems like this? I bought two TX3 heatsinks on sale yesterday, and I will see if that will improve the temps. Anyhow, I would very much appreciate help.

crispy345
 
I would say both are wrong. Phenom II series processors have a phenomenally common problem with WAY out of wack Temperature sensors. I would be more inclined to believe your motherboard sensor in this case. still add 10-15 Degrees just to be safe. that puts you to 40-45 degreesish. and If you don't overclock it thermal threshold is 70. so you should be right.
 
i know on my old x4 955 that the temperature on a rebuild was always between 49 and 55 degrees according to the asus ai probe2, yet bios showed it as much lower yet everything was fine under the hood
 
I wouldnt worry too much about it, as long as speedfan and hwmonitor are reading sensible temps, your ok, remember the bios reads the package temperature where as speedfan reads the individual core temp.

My gigabyte a75 board reads a one of three system temps as around 130'C for some reason, there isnt anything that hot its just a dodgy sensor as the other two system temps read around 50'c
 
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