Quote Originally Posted by 3oh6 View Post
hey guys, don't get too excited about temps just yet. CoreTemp is clearly not calculating temps correctly on the G0 rev chips. idling 10C below ambient isn't just impossible, its 10C past impossible. i think it is almost safe to say that 15~20C should be added to CoreTemp readings for actual temps...just an estimate based on the results users have posted in this thread.
Um, sure it is... At stock settings the cpu drops to 6x multiplier (6x333=2000) instead of 8x333 @ 2666MHz, and not only that - the Vcore drops from 1.35vcore to a bout 1.1v

On top of that, I have a laser temperature gun, I'm not using CoreTemp. I'm using Intel's Thermal Analysis Tool to report temperatures. At first I did not believe reporting 15celcius either... But first I touched the heatsink... It was COLD! Then I used the laser temperature gun to test the temperature of the heatsink, it was also below ambient.

If your bedroom is 25celcius, and you pickup say a metal screwdriver, it will be colder than ambient... Where maybe a spindle of cd's or a stack of paper will be the same warm as the rest of the room.

ANYWAYS... I have some early results with my new system, just started out very easy... Went to bios, disable C1E @ Speedstep (EIST) and then changed my VDIMM from stock 1.8v to 2.2v which is what my new Patriot memories claim to need. I left Vcore @ stock 1.35v (reports 1.32-1.33 in windows) and raised to FSB up to 400MHz.

Seems easily stable at this speed, and temperatures are still amazing me after HOURS of orthos, not even breaking a sweat.