C2D E6600 & ASUS P5B "vanilla" bad combo?

[fx9]

Hi guys,

I'm in need of some advice here. As you see, i bought this Conroe E6600 & Asus P5B regular 2 weeks ago.

The BIOS is showing d CPU's temp. at 56C & jumped to 64C after bout 3min. Not really sure whether it's d fault of the MOBO or d CPU.

So I returned both of them to d shop & have them checked. When my E6600 paired up wif Gigabyte MOBO, the CPU's temp. as shown in BIOS is only 38C.

That's why the ppl at the shop concluded that my MOBO is faulty & replaced a new P5B regular for me.

Still the new MOBO showing me the temp. of 48C & about 59C under full-load using PC Probe II monitor.................way above Gigabyte's 38C.

I heard frm a lot of ppl in the forum that it's abnormal for a C2D running above 40C.

Pls give me some pointers......btw my E6600 is running at stock speed with stock HSF
I doubt that I can OC my CPU with the crappy readings above.....

 

[cmdrdredd]

The P5B doesn't read correctly. Take about 8-10c off that temp and you've got the actual.

I have a P5B Deluxe and overclock my E6400 to 2.8Ghz and notice that it idles high too. Even with this, I can still run without any errors or other problems.

Also should mention that the stock HSF will give higher temps than a good aftermarket cooler will.

 

[fx9]

yeah.....have been hearing quite a lot of complaints surrounding the 'incorrect' temperature reading of P5B.

thx for the advice though.
I have dl'ed CoreTemp & Intel Thermal Analysis Tool just in case.
CoreTemp: idle 42C, load 58C
Intel TAT: idle 42C, load 57C

Wht's your opinion bout both temperature?? Do I seriously need 2 get a better HSF like Zalman o thermalright?? or I just RMA my E6600 for a new one?

Of course I do not hope to have a faulty processor...............thx

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: fx9
yeah.....have been hearing quite a lot of complaints surrounding the 'incorrect' temperature reading of P5B.

thx for the advice though.
I have dl'ed CoreTemp & Intel Thermal Analysis Tool just in case.
CoreTemp: idle 42C, load 58C
Intel TAT: idle 42C, load 57C

Wht's your opinion bout both temperature?? Do I seriously need 2 get a better HSF like Zalman o thermalright?? or I just RMA my E6600 for a new one?

Of course I do not hope to have a faulty processor...............thx

That seems good. as long as it's under 60 at load I'd not worry. Even though after my room heats up I idle at 50c and load is above 60c I leave it as it is.