How accurate are my NF7-S temps?

[FlyingHamster]

First off, I wanna say Im sorry if there has already been a thread about this, because I did a search but coudlnt find anything.

Anyways, so right now Im running the 17 bios, and Winbond hardware monitor from abit is reading my cpu temp as 44 C (Im at 2.4ghz currently; 218x11). how close is this to the actual temp? is it 5 degrees too high? too low? 4 degrees? etc..

Thanks in advance..

[Major]

Unless its been corrected since I had my NF7's the temps are around 10-12c high. The last bios I used was 15 so there is a possiblity that it has been fixed.

[FlyingHamster]

so that mean its actually only like 34 C right now?

[Major]

If you really want a good indication of temps, you can buy a thermal probe for about $20 at CompUSA and stick it on the cpu.

I wouldn't really dwell on the temps being reported anyway ! Their always incorrect, regardless of the mb. Just use the reported temps as a refference. If your getting 44c right now and you change your hs and get 47c you know you went in the wrong direction ! hehe or I you turn in on tomorrow and it goes to 54c then you got a problem.

Seriously, don't worry about the temps, OC it until its not stable.;)

[FlyingHamster]

lol ok. thnx...

its 1.85vcore a safe vcore to run my cpu at 24/7 slaughter? what about 2.9vdimm (~3.0v actually because the NF7-S overvolts)?

I have an SK-7 heatsink and SF II.. thnx.

[Major]

IMO both are "safe" I've run alot higher without problems.

[Penti]

Becuse it's an in-socket termistor you shuldn't trust it.
I think the 10C high on the first bioses is rubbish and means that it was 10C higher then other boards that measures with in-sockets probes or termistors Not 10C higher then the Real temp.
People only complaining about high temps when they have applications that show a good Temperature.

An exact temperature is also hard to get, even if you have a probe that accualy tuches to core you won't have the exact temp anyway it will be even higher then that and people don't wan't motherboards that have applications to measure the on-die diode becuse then there only complaining.
Since they have remove the feature to read the on-die temp on newer motherboards and replaced that with overtemp protection that's reading the temperature on-die diode and that will interfer with an external on-die temp reader, so you wont be able to hook up your own device with example an maxim 6657 ic-chip for it.