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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Maxwel on February 02, 2011, 12:43:53 am

Title: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Maxwel on February 02, 2011, 12:43:53 am

Ga-H55M-S2V
i3 550 Stock settings
MEM 2Gx2|MUSHKIN 996586 R
WinXP 32 bit

At idle ETG6 and Speedfan report 8C for the cpu temp - the room is ~20C.
Running Prime95, the temp goes to 53C.  Is this a bogus reading also?

Title: Re: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Dark Mantis on February 02, 2011, 09:23:12 am

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

You neglected to mention what cooler you are using on the CPU. Obvously this can make a huge diference to the tempertures.

Are you running the latest versions of the reporting software and is your BIOS the most up to date version available?

Title: Re: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Maxwel on February 02, 2011, 01:48:35 pm

Stock Intel cooler, latest ET6, Speedfan, Bios (F3).

Title: Re: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Dark Mantis on February 02, 2011, 02:34:03 pm

For a stock heatsink I wouldn't say the tempertures are bad at all. Obviously there is some discontinuity there between a couple of the figures but that is not uncommon. You might be able to get rid of that with a BIOS update if there is one available and make sure that you have the latest versions of your utilities there.

Title: Re: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Maxwel on February 02, 2011, 03:04:34 pm

What I'm concerned about is the bogus 9c reading at idle.  Why is it so low?

Title: Re: H55M cpu temp
Post by: Dark Mantis on February 02, 2011, 04:57:08 pm

It could be one of two things. Either it is just a stuck or malfunctioning sensor ( which is quite common) or it could be that the reporting software (either BIOS or program) is not reading it correctly. That was why I mentioned about updating.