Well it seems my QC9650 is borked too, idles at aroudn 45-44-39-40 and goes up to 50-50-48-47 at stock speeds, if I up to 3.6ghz 1.25 volts it gives the same temps lol... I can hardly trust temp readouts and I think it's a general thing with all new 45nm... I was shocked to see those temps as I would have liked it to be 10°C cooler than my Q6600...bump