Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
Based on Shanghai power consumption, typical problems of early new CPUs to have problems with temperature sensors, etc. But in the end, the idle temperature doesn't matter very much as compared to the load temperature and both are subject to error and therefore less important that actual power consumption.
First ES/steppings which dont hit retail are early CPU's as well

Since ambient should be around 20, I think 28 on idle does say a lot. Especially if you consider that both 9850BE and 6400+ idle with a TRUE where like ~30 on stock with ~20 ambient.