Where's the second temp pickup on a DS3?

Northwind

Northwind

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Obviously, one is CPU. The other, i'd thought would be Northbridge but the numbers don't match- mine burns like the sun, but temp 1 stays resolutely at 33 degrees. Surface of the board at the RAM? If I could get it to heat up, I could spot cool the board till it turns up :D
 
Northwind said:
Obviously, one is CPU. The other, i'd thought would be Northbridge but the numbers don't match- mine burns like the sun, but temp 1 stays resolutely at 33 degrees. Surface of the board at the RAM? If I could get it to heat up, I could spot cool the board till it turns up :D
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Just ignore the temperatures - they're nonsense. The second temperature is indeed supposed to be the Northbridge. My DS4 reports my CPU (under load) at 32C and 18C at idle. TAT shows it to be 60C. :rolleyes:
 
WJA96 said:
Just ignore the temperatures - they're nonsense. The second temperature is indeed supposed to be the Northbridge. My DS4 reports my CPU (under load) at 32C and 18C at idle. TAT shows it to be 60C. :rolleyes:
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Aye, mine is said to be 23C :confused: yet when I touch it its probably closer to 50C!
 
The CPU one seems to be spot on... At least, it throttles at the right point, and powers iteself down at the right point. Don't ask me how I knows, I just knows :) But then, that made me wonder if maybe those events are reacting from the same figures. Hmm.

Sorry, TAT? New one by me... I've been using Speedfan and Gigabyte's own software...
 
TAT and coretemp both read the temperatures directly from the cores. TAT is the official Intel tool. They are the most accurate temperature indicators available.
 
Just did a spot of reading on this and it seems like neither TAT or Coretemp will work with a Pentium D, since they lack the hardware. Certainly the writer of Coretemp says it doesn't. Hmm. Wonder how the processor manages itself then, it's definately got a choke...
 
Northwind said:
neither TAT or Coretemp will work with a Pentium D, since they lack the hardware
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Indeed. I was guity of assuming that because you have a DS3, you were running a Core2Duo.

If you go into the BIOS, you can turn off the Thermal Protection. I wouldn't advise it though.
 
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