Problems with stability of new build - I'm becoming very worried

joeconway

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I just made a new build with these specs:

Asus P5N32-E PLUS SLi nForce
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case
OcUK GeForce 7900 GS 256MB
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
OCZ GameXStream 600w
Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro

Given that I don't overclock;this is a good case and a good heatsink, I expected very good temperatures.

But I've noticed that on my motherboard the chipset is running REALLY hot. Speedfan was telling me that my southbridge(or nothbridge, I'm not sure which is which) was running at 86 degrees. Now its saying its running at -55(?!).
After downloading another monitoring program it is saying its running at 200 degrees!!that cannot be right surely?!


Furthermore, when I've run orthos on both cores just to see what the temperature on my cpu goes to when its fully loaded; it's failed within 5 minutes despite me not overclocking.

I have no idea what is going wrong.


Heres a screenshot of coretemp, speedfan, cpuz(to show lack of overclocking) and another monitoring program running.

If anyone could explain this to me I would be very grateful; I recently read a blog from someone with this motherboard who's southbridge became so hot because this same board of his was faulty that it burnt out and he had to get it replaced.

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I just ran Speedfan and apparently my AUX is 122C, which is bull really.

As you have an ASUS board, install ASUS PC Probe and run that. That'll give you your mobo temp and CPU temp, hopefully correct readings too.
 
Well I had to reinstall pc-probe to get it working in the first instance. But now it's working and it's saying that my motherboard id running at around 30 degrees which is reasonable, I'm still a worried that my whatever bridge is running hot because the heatsink is VERY hot to the touch and the board is a fanless design.



and I'm very worried as to why my processor keeps failing.

my system keeps randomly rebooting, as far as i can work out it's because of my processor.
 
Could be a dodgy board but see if you can rule everything else out by running memtest86 to see if its your memory, and checking all your voltage levels are ok (in PC Probe or BIOS). You may wanna go into the BIOS and look at the temperatures and voltages there as you'll get a pretty good reading from there to see if something is really overheating
 
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