P5W64 Professional cpu temp readings are way too high!

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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. :( .





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.
 
That's scary. I could understand one sensor being faulty. Have you got the latest BIOS?
 
Very bizarre.

I saw similar temps to you in the BIOS (43) but on an average air cooler, and overclocked to 3.6Ghz.

Ordinarily I would say that you just haven't got proper contact on the CPU, but I know you're not an idiot :)

It could theoretically be a bad board, but it would be a very anomolous error - especially if its showing the same kind of temps in CoreTemp (i.e. not just a sensor failure on the motherboard)

Here's what I'm getting at the moment at stock settings on my Vapo LS, only set it up last night so haven't tested load temps.

vapols_bios.jpg
 
Renember tho bios hardware monitor arent idle temps, its light stress, real idle temp is in a clean windows install when doing nothing ( temps in windows lower as in bios) , although 90 when stressed is offcourse way too much, try measuring it manually with some sensor.
 
Durzel said:
Very bizarre.

I saw similar temps to you in the BIOS (43) but on an average air cooler, and overclocked to 3.6Ghz.

Ordinarily I would say that you just haven't got proper contact on the CPU, but I know you're not an idiot :)

It could theoretically be a bad board, but it would be a very anomolous error - especially if its showing the same kind of temps in CoreTemp (i.e. not just a sensor failure on the motherboard)

Here's what I'm getting at the moment at stock settings on my Vapo LS, only set it up last night so haven't tested load temps.

vapols_bios.jpg
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i'd say your board has dubious sensors also ...-51.5 in bios on a single stage?? not really possible even if youre still using the vapo sensor which is usually about 7c generous.

they look like evap temps ;)
 
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Durzel said:
Modded single stage, temp on LCD is about -69. :)
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i know about modded LS's i have one too :D

i dont have a conroe board yet so i cant compare temps to my amd boards, it just seems unusual to see -50 in bios when boards usually report temps about 20-30 above evap temps.....the intel probe on die maybe but not in bios with motherboard sensors.

btw you know the vapochill sensor is crap??? your real evap temp is more like -60 unloaded ;)
 
iam sure it will be sorted by a bios update

i had the same problem with ASUS A8N-VM CSM
temps were 10 > 15 c higher than normal new bios sorted that

i have the board but no built it up yet, waiting on cpu and graphics card
 
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.
 
iam sure this board will still be supported 2 years down line
as its the wall street quarlet :D

you may have a dodgy sensor though

seems if a board is made in china, sensor's never seem to work correctly
but if the board is made in tawain, sensor's always are correct straight from
factory.
 
I'm thinking of getting this mobo,

But these issues are putting me off.

Why can't there be a mobo released that allows me 4ghz 1:1 24/7 without issue.

FFS is this to much to ask? :mad:
 
easyrider said:
I'm thinking of getting this mobo,

But these issues are putting me off.

Why can't there be a mobo released that allows me 4ghz 1:1 24/7 without issue.

FFS is this to much to ask? :mad:
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To be fair, you've already got well over 1Ghz overclock on your CPU. Perhaps the question is not "is this too much to ask" but "am I asking too much" ? :)
 
Installed new board today and temps are fine,waiting for AS5 to bed in, btw so far so good i like this motherboard :D
 
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