Asus A7N8X - i want correct temperatures

[truffelsmoel]

Hi all,

I've been doing some mild overclocking of my XP2400+ cpu ( unlocked using a wire in the socket ) on a plain vanilla Asus A7N8X motherboard, but the temperatures Asus PC Probe are displaying are a bit too optimistic i think. When i hit reset onder full load and hurry to the bios to check the temps there, i see temperatures that are easily 10°C or 20F higher. In fact, the temperature doesn't even rise when i go from idle to full load. So i'm quite sure PC Probe is wrong.

What can i do? I would hate frying my cpu.

 

[Jeff7]

Was going to suggest Motherboard Monitor 5, but it's taking nVidia quite awhile to provide the data needed to add nForce2 support to MBM5.

 

[LordAccord]

I have never had success with PC - Probe providing accurate readings for me. From my Dual P-III, to my dad's Duron, to my friend's P4, and now on my non-deluxe A7n8x, it only seems to report a temp when I start the program and not update it like it does the fans. I don't know what's up. I've always used Mobo monitor, but as aforementioned, no nforce support.?

LoRdAccord

 

[mechBgon]

I have an Asus A7V333-RAID and the recent versions of MBM5 can access the on-core diode. The temperature takes only about five seconds to drop from full load to idle so you will not be able to use the shut-down-and-look-in-BIOS method to see the temperature there.

The flip side of that is, if you load and unload your CPU on your A7N8X-Deluxe, and the temperature WERE coming from the core, then you will see the temperature rise and fall in real time, such as within one to three seconds. Literally. For comparison, the socket thermistor underneath the CPU, on the mobo surface, takes about two minutes to ramp up, and two minutes to ramp down again. So you can judge whether you've got a real reading by whether it responds quickly to load/idle or not.