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Originally Posted by reignofchaos Either your heatsink is not in proper contact with the CPU or your board is misreporting. I'm inclined to believe its the latter. I don't think AMD chips can take a temperature of 80 degrees. They'll throttle/crash way before they hit 80.
If I were you, i'd touch the heatsink and see if its hot. If it feels cold, its obviously loose contact. If its warm/hot and the computer runs fine inspite of sensors showing bloated temperatures, I'd just ignore the problem and carry on.
Also what program are you using to check temps? Use coretemp. |
Well on the OS installed software part, I am using MSI utility provided on the motherborad CD called " DualCoreCenter". It reads usually 6 deg. cen. lower than BIOS. yes there could be a problem in the bios also, but I had installed MSI live update and it indicates that the BIOS in latest. Anyway I still think that BIOS might be wrong and there are updates avaliable that I saw on MSI website that claims to fix wrong temperature reading.
I dont know how to flash BIOS. If you know how to do, please pm me

. But then BIOS reading 113 degree centegrade must equat to atleast 85 in real. After reading 113, I touched the heatsink and my finger was in ICE for 10 minutes( yes it really gets hot ) .
Just as you have mentioned that any AMD 65nm going above 80, they will crash, well usually they dont crash but the core gets damaged and the only way to repair it is to replace the processor.
Now in the reply after the next quote, I will reaveal what has really happend. Please read that carefully. Quote:
Originally Posted by devarshi84 aggoswami I am typing this from Ahmedabad (check the temps) on a laptop that is running full speed.
I am running amd athlon 4000+ socket 939 2.4ghz . Cant go worse with 110watts inside a laptop. I havent got burned.
There is some problem in your setup most probably.
AMD's run as cool as intel. |
Actually there is no problem with my set up, but its the history of my processor that will reveal the truth.
Read on reignofchaos and devarshi84:
The first pc I got while I got admission in MSU BCA course after clearing entrace was AMD sempron ( 1.6 GHZ ) with K8MM-V motherbaord with 512 MB DDR2 667 RAM, 80 gb hdd. This was not high speed machine so there want much of problem about heating. Obviously we went in for the cheapest avaliable cabinet ( and it was from Intex ) with very poor ventilation.
Then came second semester and running Oracle 10G was necessary ( for the initial learing evne oracle 8 is fine, but later when the real SQL tasking starts, 10g is required as there are many features lacking in 8 ). So we ordered AMD X2 5000+, 200gb hdd for this, but said that cabinet will remain same ( and this was biggest blunder ).
The X2 came with motherborad MSI K9MM-V inside a old cabinet with 280W Intex SMPS. It worked very well for around three months.One fine day, Unable to boot up, I called our computer assembler ( who happens to be having a long relation with us and this was our fourth motherboard and processor from him ). His "worker" came up and tried to boot the pc. He failed. The usual RAM cleaning wont do ( I have 2 X 1GB modules Dynet DDR2 667mhz, so there might a problem that the chipset of both the RAM not working in Dual channel mode ) even after fitting in single mode.
He called his boss and claimed that either motherboard or procesor has gone bad. Actually it was SMPS. So everyone including me would go on trying to boot the pc but the smps had went kaput. After 3 hours of fiddling, smps was the problem and we were given 400W iball smps. But usually when the smps gives way, it takes along ram and motherboard + processor. we felt good about the fact that mobtherboard and processor are saved. Actually motherboard was damaged so was processor. I realised that the next day as again the pc wont boot.
Motherboard was now the culprit identified. Went for Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 with AMD 690V chipset. The motherboard would run fine for months except the stability. It had the habit of freezing. Again after six months or so it just kept on rebooting for a while and then pc went dead.
Chip level problem identified by Gigabyte technician.
So my third motherboard was MSI K9N Neo V3 with nVidia 560 chipset and as there arent any on board graphics, went in for Point-Of-View 7300GT 512 MB. The graphics card itself lacks active cooling and hits 95 in the afternoon.
Analysis:
1) Upgrading to Gigabyte motherboard was Rs. 2500.
2) Upgrading to MSI K9N Neo + graphics card was Rs. 7500.
Rs. 5600 for motherboard and 1900 for graphics card.
Total cost: 10000.
So the end result is that when the first SMPS gave way, it took a toll on processor. And we would just fiddly with hdd connections and ram cleaning/applying new module and boot up again. This definately caused damage that is now visible. I request you all to spend money for good ventilation cabinet. Ideally there should be one 120mm fan in the front and 80mm X 2nos. fans running at rear if you are using high speed system for long hours without A/C.
Poor ventilation further overheated the alredy somewhat damaged cores of my computer.
My father also bought me 19" ViewSonic 1912W wide screen monitor that costed 13K and this was with sempron.
So cant ask for more money and favour from dad for a new processor ( its true and proven that my processor core are damaged ) and rest I cant post about my personal front.
Thanks for the advice and concern.

Will try using coretemp.
MODS: Sorry for a being somewhat offtopic and very long post, but it was required to clarify why to others.