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Originally Posted by phiphen I took 14 from the probe that's underneith my chip. (that came on the mobo) |
Well you realise of course that I'm going to dispute your result then
I have argued repeatedly against reporting the results fed by motherboard monitor. Whether the board's using an in-socket thermistor or on-chip diode, the temperature monitoring hardware has not been calibrated, has not been tested and is not proven accurate.
To give you an idea, I had MBM reporting a temperature of only 55ºC for a rather poor heatsink using an in-socket thermistor bonded to the bottom of the (then ceramic) CPU base substrate. A properly calibrated thermocouple
mounted to exactly the same point on the ceramic base read a true value of 62ºC (That's an error of about 13%mv). That was on a board using the relatively popular WinBond monitoring chips for hardware diagnostic.
I'm not especially familiar with the Barton core, having not had the time to pay a lot of attention to hardware in the last few months. Could also be that it generates less heat output than earlier cores. Anyone have a link to the spec on these?
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Originally Posted by phiphen I put one at the back of my case, one on my hd, and one right next to the di casing on my heatsink.... THAT probe reads less than 14 degree difference.. |
As it should! Fin surface temperature should be between 8 and 10ºC for fins in the middle, directly above the die, and probably only a degree celsius or two for fins at the very edges, which are largely wasted.
Unfortunately, reading fin surface temperatures only tells you that your heatsink hasn't broken the laws of thermodynamics...