Higher than normal idle temps in 900

radar19 · 25 Jul 2010 at 13:31

I've just installed my system in a 900 and I noticed my idle system temp to be a tad higher than it was when it was in my 300. Is this normal?

Here is an old screen shot of the temps in a 300.

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And here is a screenshot of the temps in the 900 taken this afternoon.

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EsaT · 25 Jul 2010 at 15:34

That so called CPU temp is meaningless, it's measured from god knows where.
Core temperatures are the ones which mean something.

And chipset and GPU temperature might be higher because of different less controlled airflow.

C64 · 25 Jul 2010 at 15:42

because the weather is warmer ? i can tell you on the more humid days lately i have seen a 10c rise

radar19 · 25 Jul 2010 at 15:43

EsaT said:
That so called CPU temp is meaningless, it's measured from god knows where.
Core temperatures are the ones which mean something.

And chipset and GPU temperature might be higher because of different less controlled airflow.

I'm not too sure where my chipset is on my board. I know theres a big heatsink near the CPU and a smaller heatsink near the GPU. My GPU is at the temps I expected it to be but the "system" temps is slightly higher than it was in my 300. I'm wondering if its under the gold heatsink near the GPU.