CPU Temp a little too high?

[gamezfreak]

I've got an MSI board and some people have told me that its temperature reading's are rather farfetched. Using "Core Centre" I get: -

CPU - 48C
System - 38C

Seems a little toasty, But apparently MSI boards label their temp sensors wrong.

Apparently the so-called "CPU" temp is read from a sensor INSIDE/NEAR the core of the cpu, and the "system" is the ambient temperature on the cpu itself.

Dunno who to believe to be honest....

[floppybootstomp]

How likely is it that this is the right sensor?

Very likely.

When you swapped over HSF's, did you clean the CPU Core? Did you use any thermal compound? Or did the HSF have one of those thermal pad thingies on it?

If it did, they're pretty crap, and cleaning it off and remounting HSF using compound such as Arctic Silver 3 or 5 will likely shave another few degrees off your CPU temp.

[atifds9]

i have a msi board and the monitoring software that came with it is pants, saying cpu temp is 26 which i was extact about the checked in bios and it's 36, which is more realistic after 2 days continous use

[Angus]

I guess the moral of the story must be if it ain't broke - don't fix it.

If you're overclocking - get a motherboard with decent sensors!!