Quote Originally Posted by seban View Post
Just quick question - what are acceptable temperatures for SB NB and Power. In stress I am heating around 46 on all (all VOLT settings on lowest possible in bios ATM)- and I got this damn MB sensor which shows 55 - 60 for most of time even in BIOS right after the start first boot of PC. I wrote to ASUS support but they do not know where MB is ... but they are checking it for me with engineers. I got few days left to return MF2 and get refund hope that ASUS will make it before that day because otherwise I will return in just in case.

And also what are acceptable temperatures for q9550 (e0) in stress for 24/7.

I am currently at 3.8 but hitting 61C in P95 at 1.21vcore ... it looks to me like there is something wrong with my temps .

I lapped CPU and HSF and no changes. I will reseat HSF today but it does not look good.

Your temps are great man. Mine are about the same running prime 95 with a Vcore of 1.35. I dont think anything is wrong, it seems to me that anything above 3 ghz is going to give rise to 60-70 c on the CPU. I have tried many vcores and with this cpu it seems that the temperature doesn't increase as much from the voltage as 65nm CPUs.

Also we have to remember there is no way we are going to run our computer with 100% stress all the time. So doing that just tells us that chances are if it is under heavy load for a long time, it will be fine.

I encode video play games download and listen to music at the same time and my temp never breaks 50 c.

--Rocks