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Its off the Diode which is able to respond very quickly to temp changes...if anyone out there thinks that a Cpu temp does not change and stays around the same number...you are fooling yourself.
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AFAIK MBM5(and the Asus monitoring utility) uses the socket diode to read temps. The CPU diode is only used in the 'Asus COP' CPU Overheat Protection to trigger a shutdown. This might have changed by now, I don't exactly keep up with asus mobos...
AFAIK if that kind of temp swing was real it would be picked up by the socket thermistor as well anyway. It would take alot of CPU cycles to make the watts needed to make that big a temp change. My CPU only 'swings' 6~7DegC from idle to 'full' load :shrug: ...
If the CPU is 100% loaded the temp should'nt swing at all as the CPU can't do anything TO generate any more heat :shrug: , where those readings taken at idle?, you might have a utility running in the background but even then those temps are
too swung out...
MBM5 often has mobo specific settings, have a look in the options to see if your particular mobo needs a certain setting enabled to caliberate it properly...
PS. An average needs to be taken across hours of usage. It takes anything up to 1.5hrs to reach equalibrium. temps will 'rocket' up to say 38load in ten minuets, but then slowly creep up to 42 across another hour. It's when it's reached equalibrium that you should start your readings for an average...