E8400 temps

[Breezy]

hi guys whats up with this core 1 is 20 degrees hotter than core 0 at idle :S its not clocked at 500x6 btw 333x9, everest says the same

 

[naudiz]

I would suggest looking at that that your thermal paste isn't applied properly?

Naud

 

[easyrider]

Re seat the heatsink.

 

[fornowagain]

You may also find that is always like that, some of the Penryn have weird core temperature values.

 

[Breezy]

reseated cooler and updated the bios to ensure compaablilty exacly the same as above core 1 20 degrees hotter what do i do? rma?

im using a gigabyte p35-ds4


edit: new vetrsion of coretemp still the same im so angry cause i went to such lenghts to get this processor

 

[colly]

i also have temp diff but mine is only about 10 diff with a e8400

 

[Breezy]

i find the system is very very laggy just ran super pi 1M to 18 seconds to do 1 loop somthing isnt right

 

[Breezy]

reseated it under a d-tek fusion waterblock still the same temps anyone have any ideas?

 

[Vertigo]

Regards the very slow speed, I had this when I first installed mine but, after a reboot it was fine. Never worked out why and has been faultless since.

 

[Breezy]

well im going to rma it, dont want a chip thats 20 degees hotter on one core, gives me no room for clocking

 

[Tom|Nbk]

LOL @ all the people RMA'ing because of bad diode readings.

NEWSFLASH:

Intel don't support external DTS readings and never have publically. You should not be allowed to RMA it because of that.

 

[Breezy]

what doi i do then just ignore it? everyone else i know with an E8 series temps are the same on both cores and dont rreally go over 50 overclocked

 

[Dwbreeze1982]

i agree with you breezy, if ure un happy rma it. The temps should not be that high even overclocked.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Personally I wouldn't RMA it. Loads of people have the same issue as you it's a problem with the DTS readings, but since Intel don't support it and us lot aren't even supposed to access the readings it seems wrong to rma a chip because of that. But hey it's up to you and whether the shop accepts the RMA.

 

[Dwbreeze1982]

so if were not allowed to access this information why does intel have TAT to check the temps of the diode

 

[Tom|Nbk]

so if were not allowed to access this information why does intel have TAT to check the temps of the diode

Because Intel TAT is under NDA and got leaked. Intel did not release it to the public.

 

[randal]

Yep, I've got the same thing as well. About 17 degrees different between cores, and previously had mental BIOS temps (127 deg C rising to 240 deg C) which were cured with a BIOS update.

According to the guy that created Coretemp, his software is working to the exact specifications Intel set out so we're to assume that's working fine. My uGuru s/w reads the socket temp reasonably (22 @ stock idle), but I've not found anything that will read the cores.

Like you I was adamant this was a chip problem, but the more I read into this the more it seems like vendors haven't got their 45nm support locked down like they thought they had. Point in question - the Abit IP35 Pro, which if you check the Abit site apparently doesn't support the e8*00s officially (despite having a BIOS update last year that enables it).

Rest assured though, there are problems across Asus, Abit, MSI, Gigabyte boards and chipsets with faulty readings both in BIOS and Windows. Nobody is accepting blame at the moment, so we're going to have to sit tight to find out whether it's Intel, Mobo vendor or software dev at fault.

 

[Dwbreeze1982]

a friend has the same chip and his bios is fine and temps are accurate to !! if i had those temps it would be RMA time

 

[badbob]

I'd like to see your reasons for RMA..

"err it's not faulty or crashing, but one core is hotter then the other"

 

[Dwbreeze1982]

bought wrong product, doa, many reasons, 7 day money back guarentee etc