It should *not* run that hot when just idling. Is this after a cold boot?
I have a FX53, too. My BIOS reads about the same as yours after a cold boot, but if I restart my system the temperature reading drops by over 20 degrees celsius. I've hjad my mobo beep like crazy warning me the chip is...
It could be the mobo.
I have an Abit AV8 and it seems to determine the temperature by rolling dice. BIOS says that the cPU, after a cold boot, was running at close to 60 degrees C and rising, then in windows it was stable at 32 degrees C.
After a session of doom 3 (aborted, as the mobo...
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I think this is responsible for most of generic criticism, especially the FPS n00bs that think Doom3 'stole' Half-life's story by having some sort of army invading a remote military/scientific base using teleportation technology and plotting to eventually conquer the world unless the...
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