Weird Temp

Surveyor · 26 Jun 2011 at 01:16

sadbuttrue said:
TMPIN1 on your board is the chipset. The heatsink on that motherboard is a rather poor design imo.

How do you work that one out?

The heatsink is essentially no different to the ones used by Gigabyte, ASUS or ASRock.

They must all have it wrong.

MSI P67A-C45:

Asus P8P67 LE:

Gigabyte GA-P67A-D3:

ASRock P67 Pro3:

sadbuttrue · 26 Jun 2011 at 03:02

And with some googling you'll find all of those run very hot too, as opposed to something like the Gigabyte UD series with fat heatsinks and a pipe connecting them.

I guess these companies are happy with such temps, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Quick Mustard · 26 Jun 2011 at 09:02

So, at the risk of sounding stupid, what part of the board is actually getting hot?

Is it where the Processor sits or the bloc with the blue streak and MSI wrote on it?

Surveyor · 26 Jun 2011 at 10:20

Quick Mustard said:
So, at the risk of sounding stupid, what part of the board is actually getting hot?

Is it where the Processor sits or the bloc with the blue streak and MSI wrote on it?

It's the chip under this heatsink (if it is actually getting that hot):

ScratchFive · 26 Jun 2011 at 10:32

If it is a design problem with the heat sink and not that it is not seated correctly or a bad reading from HWmonitor, you should be able to feel the heat sink getting very hot as it will be unable to dissipate the heat.

If it is not seated correctly, all of the heat may not be transferred correctly to the heat sink and therefore it may not feel that hot.

Quick Mustard · 26 Jun 2011 at 10:49

Hmm ok, so what should I do then?

I've registered it with MSI for the Warranty.

ScratchFive · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:02

sadbuttrue said:
The 127c reading is most likely due to the sensor being unable to report above a specific temperature. I'd suspect it's around 90-100c in reality.

you could contact your mobo supplier but the TjMax of your chipset is 108degs C so if sadbuttrue is right you don't really have a problem that would require them to RMA the board.

you could re-apply the heat sink with a new thermal pad and see if it changes, this may affect your warranty though so its probably worth dropping msi or whoever supplied your motherboard an email before you do this.

other than that you could just leave it, sadbuttrue suggests that there isn't really a problem.

ScratchFive · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:11

ScratchFive said:
you could contact your mobo supplier but the TjMax of your chipset is 108degs C so if sadbuttrue is right you don't really have a problem that would require them to RMA the board.

you could re-apply the heat sink with a new thermal pad and see if it changes, this may affect your warranty though so its probably worth dropping msi or whoever supplied your motherboard an email before you do this.

other than that you could just leave it, sadbuttrue suggests that there isn't really a problem.

there is a way you can test, if you see a jump in temps from say 90 to 127 on your readings when you start gaming then sadbuttrue is probably right but if you see a value above 108 and below 127 at any point then you may have a problem.

Quick Mustard · 26 Jun 2011 at 11:35

I dont see it rising unless i'm putting a heavy load on it.

ScratchFive · 26 Jun 2011 at 12:16

yer, as you put a heavy load on it it the temp will rise, and presumably will do so in steps (HW monitor updates every few seconds), if you see temp that's above 108 and below 127 then it probably means 2 things
1. your sensor can record temperatures high enough for you to see if your PCH has temperature issues and
2. you do have temperature issues

CyberCrow · 26 Jun 2011 at 13:14

Justintime said:
Coretemp wouldn't read that temp and cpuz dosen't read temps last i checked lol. Your DTS countdown was still likely still right, only your older version probably didn't know the tjmax of your cpu thus your temps read higher.

well if coretemp dosnt read the temp you or he is using an old verson, im using it now with my gd65.
An sorry about cpu-z not having a temp

Quick Mustard · 26 Jun 2011 at 16:22

Well, It's been like this since I built the system over 2 weeks ago now.

I've ordered an Akasa System Exhaust Blower and one of those Antec Spot Coolers.

I'll whack these in and see what happens.

Games seem to run very smoothly, no graphical problems or system shutting down. The CPU and GPU are well cooled.

It just appears to be this one erroneous temperature that is mucking around.