[Hondacity]

when aircooling i usually do this check temps....

and even liquid cooling

and ln2...

to check the mounts...

i always heat up the cpu...to about 60c.....make sure the ceramique or thermal paste spreads to the micro grooves....for max heat transfer

also if the mount is sorta angled....then a temperature difference = delta, for example greater than 10 C....means a remount is in order

[BenchZowner]

Originally Posted by ny_driver

Well, I do even though I've been instructed that they are unreliable when sub-zero. It did work good(consistently anyways) until recently. It(pcprobe) would read down to 0 and below with no minus sign down to -10 was as far as I saw............but anyways the last couple days it's been reading 50-60C, but I know it's totally whacked.

I was racing and everything yesterday @ 4.5Ghz/1.5v with a cpu temp of 65C.......... I don't think so. It wouldn't even think about POSTing if not sub-zero at those settings. Anyone ever had a similar experience?

They can easily POST and boot at 4.5GHz even at 85C++
The Core i7's in general, and the 980X's especially can do crazy things... like Bingo

Originally Posted by Hondacity

when aircooling i usually do this check temps....

and even liquid cooling

and ln2...

to check the mounts...

i always heat up the cpu...to about 60c.....make sure the ceramique or thermal paste spreads to the micro grooves....for max heat transfer

also if the mount is sorta angled....then a temperature difference = delta, for example greater than 10 C....means a remount is in order

The on-die DTS ( temp sensors ) of the Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs are very accurate, and is the closest reading you can get to the exact core temperature.
CoreTemp or RealTemp and you're set.