Unlocked my 550BE - Core temp not reading?

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 09:09

Anyway I can get coretemp to read it now it's unlocked?

Thanks

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 13:43

The whole system is cold as ice anyway. I'd just like a better reading on core temps before I started OCing it again.

Any ideas?

twist3d0n3 · 1 Dec 2009 at 14:03

i vaguely remember reading something about the temp probes not working once you unlock one of these badboys... could be wrong but worth looking into

jms198 · 1 Dec 2009 at 15:02

Either TMNP1 or TMNP is the senosor for your CPU on the mobo; its the one that goes up rapidly when you stress your CPU. Locked you should get a reference between this and core temp at both load and idle; should then translate when unlocked.

I think everest ultimate may be able to read your core temps too.

Good luck!

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 17:30

jms198 said:
Locked you should get a reference between this and core temp at both load and idle; should then translate when unlocked.

So the temps I had locked will be roughly the same as what I'll be getting at the same frequency unlocked?

capriboy1978 · 1 Dec 2009 at 17:34

from a laymans standpoint I can't see why not, maybe a few extra degrees as the other core will now br running. Might try and disable a core in boios on my 920 i7 and see how it affects temps - idea for a ultra low temp and quiet profile for watching movies at night....

thanks!!

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 18:55

Got it up to 3.4ghz atm, stable in prime95. Needs some game testing time now

This thing is brilliant.

Big.Wayne · 1 Dec 2009 at 19:07

reiyushin said:
Unlocked my 550BE

Nice one reiyushin!

You lucked out there my son! . . . the AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 550 is good choice of High-End AMD chip based on the fact if you can unlock the extra cores you got a maximum bang for buck processor!

I was hesitant to purchase one as knowing my luck it wouldn't unlock, anyway you should be well chuffed with that and loosing the ability to monitor core temps is a very small price to pay!

If you doing some extreme clocking you can also put your hand on the CPU heatsink to see how the temps are doing, if you really need a confirmation I think you'll have to reset back to x2 cores and check what the temps are! :cool:

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 19:15

jms198 said:
I think everest ultimate may be able to read your core temps too.

Got this and it gives me a CPU temp but not the individual cores temps. They likely to be similar?

It's stable through prime and cod4. so far so good.

reiyushin · 1 Dec 2009 at 19:20

Big.Wayne said:
You lucked out there my son!

I really did. I was skeptical at first but I figured I'd give it a go. Really pleased with the performance of this little CPU, as a dual core it clocked happily to 4ghz and ran smooth as silk, now it's a quad and it's even better lol

I'll get a reading on the temps and try push it a little more. Vcore is 1.425 so there could still be a little bit still to be had