Broken temperature sensor?

woodsup · 2 Aug 2006 at 09:35

Hi, I finally got my 6300 and ds4 yesterday and have started overclocking it (and yes I did get the zalman 9500 to fit on it). Its up to 2.2 now and yet the cpu temp still shows as idling at 20-23 on the easytune software that comes with it. That cant be far off room temperature and doesnt seem at all right to me :confused:

Load temps are generally not much higher from what I can gather.

Any advice?

edit: after a couple of minutes on prime the temp goes up to low 30s

HicRic · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:44

Try some other software like CoreTemp, or seeing what it says in the BIOS perhaps? I get different temps depending on the software I use (SpeedFan, everest etc.) but I think CoreTemp and the BIOS are the most reliable as they match up - on my system anyway.

woodsup · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:46

I've tried speed fan but its difficult to tell which of the sensors is which on that. Bios seems to confirm what the Gigabyte software says, which is why I was wondering if its a broken sensor. I will have a try with Coretemp now thanks.

HicRic · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:50

If that also matches the BIOS/easytune then yeah, you've either got a borked sensor or the 6300 runs nice and cold! Not sure what the expected temps are.

woodsup · 2 Aug 2006 at 10:51

Ahh, thats much more like it. 35/36 on idle. Can't see why gigabyte couldnt make a proper piece of software for a board that was designed to carry conroes. At least they made a kick-ass board

Thanks again

HicRic · 2 Aug 2006 at 13:42

Happy to help.

As you can probably guess from it's name, coretemp measures the temperature directly from the cpu core, so as long as the chip is one of the ones it works on, coretemp is generally accurate. Very handy bit of software, learned about it on this very forum.