Hello dear Gurus, I have an interesting question I cant seem to figure out myself! I have Q8200, it is not even OCed and it lies on a P5Q-E mobo. Kinnda oldschool The thing is, when in BIOS I get CPU temperatures ranging from 28-32 celsius but when in Windows (8 for that matter) every single temperature program reports temperatures at about 65 degrees while in idle. When I game or render something in a modelling software that even reaches 100 degress but It never goes beyond. Of course now I am not sure if my PC is actually overheating or is it just some sensor probes not doing the math right? Oh and right now I am rendering a semi complex animation. The degrees are at 100 for the first core and my guess was that after 1 hour of this the CPU would start to throttle itself... But it doesnt! Cpu-Z reports the core speed at 2.3ghz and it drops to 1.9ghz every 20 seconds or so but only for a fraction of a second... So I guess no throttling is going ? Any ideas?
Try different software. HW monitor, OpenHardware monitor, Afterburner, Aida64, etc. Does the bios read the same ~30* idle temps when the system has been running for a while or only on cold boot? Also, while not great advice, fingers are great for detecting relative temperature.
Sounds to me like one is Celcius and the other Fahrenheit maybe? That would explain it not been throttled.
Well heres the thing... - I tried three different Temp programs and all provide the same results - Every programs shows degrees - I tried booting into BIOS after the PC was stress tested for about 7 hours (rendering) and all the reading are about 20 degrees lower than what I get in windows. So in Windows idle temps are 60, in BIOS they are 40 (not after cold boot). - The heatsink is superb cold Still no idea what to think :nerd:
