well my asus board has the old fasioned thermal sensor mounted in the cpu socket to read the ambient tempreture of the air under the CPU itself. it's a crap reading as theres a gap between the 2.
in the past year (ish) cpu makers are including a sensor build into the CPU Die (the core bit on top of the substrate holding all the pins) and motherboard makers are including a reading for this in the BIOS. but even though there are 2 ways of reading the temps, the BIOS will default to the guarenteed probe thats included on the board. once in windows, 3rd party sorfware such as MBM5 will pick up on both sensors and give 2 readings. by rights the more accurate of the 2 is the Die temp, built in the chip, as its reading from inside, with no air to alter the readings.
the internel sensor, (Die) is about 50 times faster at picking up a change in tempreture, mine jumps up 5 degrees in about a second, the socket probe takes a good minute or 2 to build up to the new temp as the ambient air is insulating the reading.
thats why i thought when you said 70 degrees, that you were reading the die temp, and the BIOS reading was of the socket temps. (it made sence to me as i've seen it all before )
hope my crappy english makes sence happy new year :beer:
in the past year (ish) cpu makers are including a sensor build into the CPU Die (the core bit on top of the substrate holding all the pins) and motherboard makers are including a reading for this in the BIOS. but even though there are 2 ways of reading the temps, the BIOS will default to the guarenteed probe thats included on the board. once in windows, 3rd party sorfware such as MBM5 will pick up on both sensors and give 2 readings. by rights the more accurate of the 2 is the Die temp, built in the chip, as its reading from inside, with no air to alter the readings.
the internel sensor, (Die) is about 50 times faster at picking up a change in tempreture, mine jumps up 5 degrees in about a second, the socket probe takes a good minute or 2 to build up to the new temp as the ambient air is insulating the reading.
thats why i thought when you said 70 degrees, that you were reading the die temp, and the BIOS reading was of the socket temps. (it made sence to me as i've seen it all before )
hope my crappy english makes sence happy new year :beer: