Updating the motherboard BIOS cooled the CPU ???

[TresLunas]

I've been using a Gigabyte GA-8iex motherboard with my P4 2.0A (overclocked to a very modest 2.2) for about eight months now, and the temperature monitor program that comes with it has given CPU temperatures of about 53°C idle and 63°C load (room temp is 25°C).

Just a few hours ago I flashed the motherboard BIOS to the latest version and now I'm getting 35°C idle, 47°C load.

So what's going on here? Was there a bug in the older BIOS giving wrong temperatures, or has a BIOS update really cooled the CPU? I really hope these new temps are correct and the newer BIOS doesn't have a bug - these current temps are so much better than the old ones.

 

[Mikki]

Yeah, that's a bios quirk...tho whether it's the older bios or newer bios I don't know. But definitely a quirky bios...

 

[techfuzz]

More than likely the newer BIOS is reporting a temp much closer to actual temp than the older BIOS. If could be that Gigabyte realized they were way too high in calculating the temp and corrected for it in this new BIOS version. I'd keep an eye on it and their support site just to make sure it isn't a bug in the new BIOS. If nothing crops up in a couple weeks then you're probably good to go.

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