Bruce Tyler wrote:
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Until recently (3 weeks ago) I had an Asus A7M266 m/b and XP2000+ CPU.
Before I had the XP2000+, I had a T/Bird 1.4Ghz CPU and listen to
this...

With the 1.4Ghz I was getting a "quoted by AsusProbe", max temps under
gameplay of about 53 degC and as low as 42 at idle, ambient room temp
was about 22+/- degC...

When I upgraded to the XP2000+ CPU, I had to update the BIOS to v1007
to get the A7M266 to accept the new CPU.. OK,, all well and done,, as
soon as I flashed the BIOS, I noticed an immediate 10 degC rise in
temperatures. I hadn't dropped in the new CPU yet and still had the
1.4Ghz in and whoa as me, temps now were quoted as 52 at idle and
about 63 under game load..
What the f**k..??? Why..???

Anyway I put the XP2000+ CPU in and the temps stayed the same 52 -
63degC... Strange..!!!

Was I to accept the new readings or the were the older ones the more
accurate or was AsusProbe at fault somehow..???

The flashing of the BIOS being associated with a rise in both idle and load
temperatures is a fairly well known phenomenon.
The 1400 T-Bird was the hottest running CPU of the time. Seeing a load temp
of 63°C was not uncommon. A processor is usually stable at that temperature.
Reseating the heatsink makes accurate comparisons more difficult as more
variables were introduced.


To me, Asus may well be supplying incorrect readings, no matter which
way you go... I used several different versions of AsusProbe and had
several different readings - slight but definitely different... What
were they thinking at the time..???

The early 2.20.xx versions of Asus Probe did all kinds weird stuff.. I use
2.19.07.


I have moved on recently. I now have a Gigabyte M/b and an XP3000 etc
etc and I use a program recommended to me by other disallusioned Asus
m/b users. It's called Aida32 - freeware - and it's good and gives a
complete system check... AsusProbe got bigger and bigger and did
nothing more than the first version I ever used. It is now Bloatware
and no more... Aida32 is only two-thirds the size and does so much
more...

I use AIDA32 ver 3.93 as well. Any time I've compared temps or voltages
between it and Asus Probe, I've found the numbers to be the same. Notes:
AIDA32 displays the CPU diode voltage where AP does not. Nominally it reads
7-10°C higher than the CPU temp. Running any two monitoring utilities at the
same time results in odd and invalid measurements.