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Unread 06-18-2001, 07:11 AM   #2
bdunosk
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Yes, you are absolutely correct. The high-temp effect can be attributed to two sources on Asus's A7Vx motherboards (I had an A7V and did a lot of reading on this on www.a7vtroubleshooting.com ):

1) The temperature reported by the BIOS is actually reported higher than the actual CPU temp. This is to compensate for the possibility of the thermal probe measuring the air temperature behind the socket and not the actual CPU core temperature, which would be higher (of course).

2) The BIOS you are using is not allowing the CPU to idle when it's not busy, that is, it's running at 100% all the time. Check that site above to rectify the problem. Or just sell your board and get something else, like an Abit KT7a. Go DDR like me and get an Epox 8k7a - most stable board I've used, ever (and that's in the past ~10 years).
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