P5W64 Professional cpu temp readings are way too high!

Devious · 2 Oct 2006 at 12:44

Is nobody here having problems with the temp readings on this board ? I got one yesterday and the temps are scary compared to my previous board the P5WDH.

Bear in mind that Im on water cooling, at stock volts and cpu speed the cpu is at 44 idle in bios.??

It was 21 on my P5WDH.

For comparison was in the low 40's whilst running duel prime at 3.6Ghz with 1.45v on my Asus P5WDH board ??

This is it with 1.375 vcore set in bios and at 3.6GHz ,idle at 60 deg!!? I only just hit 55 deg duel priming at 3.94 GHz on my other board as in my sig.

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At 3.6 Ghz when playing oblivion its getting into the mid 80's which caused Asus probes alarm to go off and I guess the cpu will be throttled! wtf

i ram prime for about 5 seconds and it went into the 90's.

Ive reseated my water block many times, and tried the latest bios and its just the same.

I wanted to push 1.6v thorugh my chip and see how high i can go with the higher FSB capabilty of the P5W64 but I cant imagine the temp readings at that voltage. 120deg + ??

Ive put my other motherboard back in for the time being and the temps are back to normal. I dont know whether to get another one or try something else as ive seen a few other with high temps on air with this board.

Devious · 2 Oct 2006 at 12:52

Cob said:
What does Core Temp say? It reads a different sensor.

i was using core temp and TAT when in windows and saw the temps hit the 90's in prime for 5 seconds with 1.375v in bios , 3.6GHz.

Devious · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:22

Some people dont seem to have the same problem though, how would such a bios update affect them ? Would it make their temps too low ?

Its not something i can live with tbh, I want to push this chip now and not in maybe a month, and they may never fix it.

Devious · 3 Oct 2006 at 20:34

What cpu and speed ?

What are your temps with core temp or TAT?

I took mine back today.

Devious · 3 Oct 2006 at 20:47

That seems quite high like mine.

When i put a bit more vcore into it and load its just went nuts.

Devious · 3 Oct 2006 at 21:01

Durzel said:
My gut feeling is that you've got a faulty temperature sensor.

Had a faulty temperature sensor

Im well shut of it.

Im going to monitor others who buy this board to see if there all like that.

clone said:
May get sorted with a new bios, i had loads of false reading with my DS3 until a newer bios came out.

I wouldnt hold my breath though, they havent fixed anything useful on my P5W DH yet.

Devious · 3 Oct 2006 at 21:08

clone said:
Waiting for AS5 to bed in a bit .

I hope yours is good as I may buy another lol

Devious · 5 Oct 2006 at 16:11

Same as mine then

Mine came with bios 0116 and that was just the same for me.

Its a shame as its seemed like a really strong overclocking board.