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BioS HEATS THINGS UP ????

  • 25-09-2004 5:54pm
    #1
    dubdvd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭


    Anyone ever heard of a bios making your cpu and mobo hotter ...i downloaded a beta bios from the asus site and after installing it i noticed that the temps had took a big jump about 20 to 25 degrees more... but when i flashed it back and replaced the frist one the temps dropped back ...i used mbm5 each time and also the bios reading and the software ones in windows ?????anyone ever heard of this????


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  • #2
    Jammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Jammer


    your old bios was miss-reporting temperatures....thats why your meant to stay up to date with bioses. Your old one could be be reporting temps less then they actually are, therefore damaging (over time if not straight away) your CPU/Mobo. The MBM5 takes the temps from the bios.


  • #3
    ViperVenoM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 807 ✭✭✭ViperVenoM


    i reckon the beta bios u tried was just giving u a dodgy reading, im going through a lot of this because with my motherboard and cpu they havent got a decent bios that gives a proper reading it seems

    i can use say...1.3 and get 50 degrees idle, then try 1.45 and it goes to 31 ..like it is now, but then ill restart tomorrow and it will be on 60 or something i think its just a dodgy reading

    *ohh u beat me to it :p


  • #4
    StRiKeR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 953 ✭✭✭StRiKeR


    one of those bios is reporting incorrect temp, I wouldn't worry about it too much, just check them yourself with a meter or see if you can touch the heatsink! keep your finger on the hinksink for a while if that doesn't burn you then you're fine, but use a meter to check it just to be save when it idle or under load! my bios is mad as well with the temp, telling me my cpu at 52c but its nowhere near that, more like 21c to 30c the most, and it tells me my PSU is at 127c! lol .... !


  • #5
    Jammer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,891 ✭✭✭Jammer


    the heatsink is meant to give away heat, not conduct it!!! The fins on heatsinks are designed to give off heat, not to retain it so u can get a temp read!The chips itself is hot, the heatsink draws the heat from the chip, the fan cools down the heatsink. Fair enough, you'd be able to get a rough guide, like if it was 70' opposed to 20' you'd feel a difference, but between 30' or 50' it wouldn't indicate much! I'd tend to believe the latest offical bios.


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