Quote Originally Posted by anewbie View Post
before I return the board is there a way for me to obtain the temperature (er software tool) ? Yes it feels very hot to me but I truely have no clue how warm it actually is - I would hate to return it; get a new board and discover that this is normal. If i rest my fingers on the v8 I would say they are uncomfortably warm but not on fire. I suspect if I leave them there for a few minutes they might become very uncomfortably warm. So definitely well over 35. 50c woudl be around 132 which shoudl be warm but not horribly uncomfortable so I have to guess it is higher than 50c.
The Southbridge heatsink gets real warm on all my Sandy Bridge mobos - be it Asrock, Asus or Gigabyte since the local ambient temps here are ~25-35C plus the Southbridge is located directly right under the hot new video cards. imo, probably no real cause for alarm unless it quickly burns your finger ie. >70C.