E8400 High Temp

[andressergio]

Hey guys

This is to help a friend of mine that's very dissapointed with it's new E8400

He's runing:

ASUS P5K DELUXE LATEST BIOS
E8400 BATCH Q745A423
TT BIG TYPOON VX + AS5
MSI 9600GT
ANTEC 900 case
TT Toughpower 750W modular

He called me very anoyed cause he noticed that at stock speed and all settigs on AUTO it has 47/48 the cores... :confused: So i checked with him on bios and the vcore was 1,13Volts...very bad temp for such a low vcore, using my experience with re sear again, changed all to manual, did a normal OC an temps go higher and higher, is this a bad batch ?? i was thinkin going' a step back on bios...but i'm kinda lost
Just to add some info i checked the cores on bios, coretemp, everest, etc same thing same temp 47-48C


Any comments ?

Thank you very much to all
Sergio

[Leeghoofd]

Tried realtemp proggy mate ?

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/3/1794507/RealTemp.zip

[andressergio]

Hey leg !

You think it'll change something ? I mean i see that lots of ppl have really good temps and are monitoring with normal software

I will give a try

Thanks
Sergio

[Leeghoofd]

well on my 45nm it gives 10 °C lower as it calculates the correct Tjmax or whatever

[sofarfrome]

Those temps may be the lowest your proggy will reconize. My E8400 would see 44/45C and the temps wouldn't change until I increased the vcore and ran P95 then they would go up to 56/57 (or so) and fluctuate as one would anticipate. Try another temp monitoring program.

What does BIOS say the CPU temp is?

[WoZZeR999]

It may just be the stuck temp sensor problem. Open a window or something to see if you can get the cores down below that temp. If you can get yourself a really gold room and they still say 47-48, it's probably just the stuck sensor. Otherwise, could be a bad mount.

[andressergio]

It may just be the stuck temp sensor problem. Open a window or something to see if you can get the cores down below that temp. If you can get yourself a really gold room and they still say 47-48, it's probably just the stuck sensor. Otherwise, could be a bad mount.

Hey wozz

well if i turn down the fans it goes up to 52C, i re seated 3 times no luck and same temps....

Cheers
Sergio

[WoZZeR999]

You want to to the opposite. Try to get the temps as low as possible. If you are standing in a 10 degree room, and it stills says 47-48, then the temp sensors are stuck and there isn't anything you can really do about it.

[andressergio]

You want to to the opposite. Try to get the temps as low as possible. If you are standing in a 10 degree room, and it stills says 47-48, then the temp sensors are stuck and there isn't anything you can really do about it.

So i will never now the exact temp of the CPU unless i drop a sensor or something ? i mean if the sensor is stucked...And what if I RMA ?

Cheers
Sergio

[WoZZeR999]

I would see if you can get it lower than 47-48. If you can't then you do have a stuck sensor. They only get stuck at low temps, because Intel only guarantees that the sensor will work at the upper limit, so they can't be RMA'd due to a 'stuck sensor'.

[andressergio]

Much thanks to all for the help I Will tell my friend this situation

Cheers
Sergio