The mystery of the absolute temperature of a Core 2 Duo has still not been solved.Originally Posted by Miwo
I had a look at your results on the first page of this thread and would have to disagree with you. I believe your processor has a TjMax of 100C and you really were running it at over 90C.
These are just numbers and nothing to get too worried about. I've found that as long as your Orthos stable your C2D will be fine. I ran Orthos for half an hour one day and adjusted the CPU fan to keep it at 3 degrees from TjMax. In my case that was likely 97C and my computer was rock solid stable.
Yours is one of the few processors that I've seen that TAT is reading properly as TjMax=100C. Would it be possible for you or anyone that has a processor that TAT shows numbers above 85C to do a RDMSR on location 0xEE and post your results.
Refer to this post to understand what I'm talking about:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=139
My C2D does not start to throttle until DTS=2. With a TjMax=100C that would be an absolute temperature of 98C. Your test showing your processor running at 94C and not throttling makes perfect sense. It wasn't hot enough yet.
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