Quote Originally Posted by BR_Impulse View Post
This is a variation of what I experienced. My Pro board came with BIOS 0408 and used to report CPU temp at 24C, and AI Suite II agreed. However, Realtemp reported 32C or so on my cores. When i updated to 1003, the BIOS and AI Suite then showed 32-33C. The latest BIOS also shows 32-33 so right now, I'm thinking this one is the right temperature. Odd how yours has your BIOS not agreeing with AI Suite.

Have you tried a CMOS clear? I actually also had an issue where after flashing, my CPU wasnt speedstepping or turboing correctly and it was messing up my voltage, frequency, and temp readings, but a CMOS clear fixed that.
No luck. I did a CMOS clear routine and BIOS still showed 48C idle. I did discover that I had accidentally downloaded and flashed 1003, rather than 1053 that I intended to flash. So, I flashed 1053. Did the CMOS clear cycle yet again, booted into Win7 and restarted. Still 48C in BIOS. I checked and the heatsink and fan air feel barely above room temperature, so I am guessing it is a BIOS reporting error.

I went back into Windows and started Prime95 again, this time I am running Core Temp 0.99.8 in addition to Asus Monitor. Right now, Asus reports 58C with fan on medium, Coretemp reports 55, 60, 59 and 57C with 100% load on all cores. The fan air is warm. At idle it reported 32, 32, 31, 30.

Anyway, so far no other issues. Prime95 ran all day yesterday and overnight with no problems. I benchmarked my C300 128GB with AS SSD. Sequential read was 330MB/s, write was 140MB/s. Overall score was 282 read, 171 write, 597 total. Much better than my X25-M G2 on the previous computer that resulted in scores of 178, 69 and 336 overall.