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e8400 + IP35 Pro, 127 deg in BIOS - 15-17 deg difference between cores

randal

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Duh... that ain't right:

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Neither is this:

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The CPU fan is ramped up and doing 10 to the dozen, it's all at stock 333x9 @ default volts. Bios is latest, rev 14 - 09/06/2007.

Anyone else seeing this, or anything like this? I know Coretemp is a bit glitchy, but this looks like a board/CPU specific epic fail to me...

edit - now CPU reads as 249 degrees C in BIOS after another CMOS reset.
 
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Yeah that seems to have done it, Coretemp is still way off though and Speedfan doesn't pick up the CPU. Oh and the Beta of that crashes so I've got no way to accurately gauge the temps anyway. Nuts.
 
Just reinstalled Speedfan 4.33 and it's picking up one value for CPU now which is around 28 degrees, there's no per core temp listing though. Is this what you're seeing?

Coretemp at least shows both cores, albeit one is mental. Ah well, have to wait for an update I guess.
 
Been playing around with this a bit more, and to say it's unstable on the latest beta BIOS release is an understatement. Seems if I'm running anything monitoring temp, I get blue screens.

The current BIOS (rev 16 beta 4) reports correct (afaik) temps in the BIOS and on uGuru but Coretemp still has a massive difference between cores.

There's loads of people on the Abit forums saying they're seeing the same thing too, think there will be another BIOS release pretty quickly for this as Abit have already acknowledged the problem.
 
dagwoood said:
That may not be BIOS related:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10972379#post10972379
Click to expand...

Interesting read, so it maybe faulty/badly calibrated Tdiodes causing this? I'm getting more and more tempted to RMA this on Monday, as some people are having success with IP35s and the e8400s and Core Temp also appears to be working which would indicate a batch of shady CPUs.

I thought it was Abit that were at fault, but 16B04 cured the iffy temps in BIOS and the Core Temp readings have stayed consistent so I'm leaning away from them now.

There's also the problem that this CPU is unstable, Firefox has crashed twice this morning and I had 4-5 blue screens in 15 minutes last night before I got cheesed off and hit the sack. This was on a system previously stable at 400x9 on an e6600 8 hours Orthos.

This smacks of the AMD Thoroughbred A/B fracas to me, compatible boards and re-releases of CPUs etc...
 
I'm thinking of RMAing a chip because it's showing mental temps, and keeps crashing. As other people here are experiencing too:

http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=133649&page=5

This chip hasn't been overclocked, I wanted to get it stable at stock before trying that and at present that's proving to be difficult not only for me but for a number of other people in the thread above too. Seems like a little more than a coincidence if it's affecting a whole load of people don't you think?

'd rather not RMA it but I'm also not about to RMA it under immoral circumstances. If it's not sold as fully functioning properly, then it's getting RMA'd. End of.

I'll try a Windows reinstall tomorrow when I've got some more time, but at the moment beer is more important :)
 
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