If your machine is stable the you don't NEED low temps - and I dont think ANY motherboard sensor is truely acurate.
Best you can do is make sure your rad is in the path of the coldest air - I have built "wind tunnels" to help me direct the cold air from outside the case to the rads. This makes sure the warm air of the case is NOT used to "cool" the rads.
As for remounting - you'll be surprised how often that works - a bad TIM directly affects your CPU temps - i.e its no good if you have the best water cooling system in the world - if it ain't actually touching the CPU block properly to cool it.
But back to the first point - are you really having problems with these "high" temps - if the temperature keeps on increasing then you DO have a problem as your computer is not lossing the heat - but if it stabilises and your computer runs OK - you don't need to worry about it.
Hope this helps
~ Boli
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Last edited by Boli; 10-14-2003 at 12:09 PM.
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