720 Be + Ga-ma790xt-ud4p

[Hemi345]

Either the temp sensors are off, or they really do run this cool. Last night it was idling with CnQ at 21C. Played that FEAR demo and left HWMonitor running and it never got above 37C. Ambient is 20C. That's with the OEM HSF that has no heatpipes on it.

I was able to sorta get an old version of Overdrive working but I don't think it supports the Phenom II X3s very well, I couldn't change the multi on the 1st core, but i could sort on the 2 and 3... if i set it to 16, it would drop back to 15.5 when I clicked Apply.

[DPGX]

Either the temp sensors are off, or they really do run this cool. Last night it was idling with CnQ at 21C. Played that FEAR demo and left HWMonitor running and it never got above 37C. Ambient is 20C. That's with the OEM HSF that has no heatpipes on it.

I was able to sorta get an old version of Overdrive working but I don't think it supports the Phenom II X3s very well, I couldn't change the multi on the 1st core, but i could sort on the 2 and 3... if i set it to 16, it would drop back to 15.5 when I clicked Apply.

Thanks for your updates the past 2 days I ended up doing the same board and chip, I think CoreTemp may be off, mines only listing 2 cores, CPU-Z see's 3 cores and Windows does too. This seems like the budget chip to buy right now, I absolutely love it. I cannot wait to throw water cooling in this case and push it more. My only disappointment was that OEM heatsink lol. Im use to as of late seeing the heatpipe coolers ship with BE chips from AMD, I had two that arent being used though and threw that on it until Saturday.

I couldnt be happier right now I just wish AOD 3.0 was out.

[Hemi345]

See if you have the latest version of CoreTemp. Mine shows the three cores and reports the same temps that HWmonitor does but I'm starting to think they're not reading the correct sensor. If I fire up Gigabyte's Easy Tune or whatever it's called, it says the CPU temp is the same as Sensor #2 in HWmonitor... which also is much closer to what the BIOS reports for CPU temp. Idling around 35C.

Last night Overdrive wouldn't work at all on my system...it would lock up the machine while the msg indicated Overdrive was reading the information from my PC. I really only want to use it to play with the multipliers in the OS.

I was able to boot and run a few games at 3.4ghz no problem at stock voltage (17x200).

[msimax]

See if you have the latest version of CoreTemp. Mine shows the three cores and reports the same temps that HWmonitor does but I'm starting to think they're not reading the correct sensor. If I fire up Gigabyte's Easy Tune or whatever it's called, it says the CPU temp is the same as Sensor #2 in HWmonitor... which also is much closer to what the BIOS reports for CPU temp. Idling around 35C.

Last night Overdrive wouldn't work at all on my system...it would lock up the machine while the msg indicated Overdrive was reading the information from my PC. I really only want to use it to play with the multipliers in the OS.

I was able to boot and run a few games at 3.4ghz no problem at stock voltage (17x200).

turn off any other hwmonitor before you run aod

[DPGX]

Are you running the 64-bit version of Core Temp? I grabbed it last night off the coretemp site and its showing 2 cores idk why.

CPU-Z indiciates 3 cores as does task manager.

[DPGX]

Just found this over at AMDzone may explain temps a bit:

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/e...rge_phenom.jpg

Check out the AM3 listing for thermal monitor.

[Hemi345]

Are you running the 64-bit version of Core Temp? I grabbed it last night off the coretemp site and its showing 2 cores idk why.

CPU-Z indiciates 3 cores as does task manager.

No, i was using probably 32bit of Core Temp... I wanna say version 1.55? It showed three cores, but the same extremely low temps that HWmonitor is reporting as the "core" temps. TMPIN1 seems much more realistic.