Hey all!
Firstly, an apology for not digging too thoroughly - I'm quite sure there will be threads on this issue (or similar ones), but the search function yields what I'm sure is an eroneous 0 results for "ACPI", "THRM" and "overheating". So I figured I'd do the usual newbie thing and make a new thread and apologies for being a nuissance.
That said, my situation. I'm running an Intel E2180, currently factory clocked (2GHz), though it's been stably overclocked on stock cooling to ~2600MHz for the last two months. It actually doesn't have any problems at ~3GHz either, but the core temperatures go scarily high on this fan. My mobo is a P5N-MX
I noticed this morning, though, that my ACPI-THRM and CPUTIN temperature was reporting as MUCH higher (in HWmonitor, but also in Speedfan, and even in the bios) than it should be - 72C/160F - which is really bizarre, and slightly scary, since 70C, I've read, is pretty close to a CPU's death zone. Which I do not want to enter.
The cores themselves are cool - 24C at stock clockrate, and closer to 36-37C at 2.6GHz.
The heatsink on the CPU is nothing more than warm to the touch, and the one on my mobo itself is slightly warmer, but still no higher than a lukewarm cup of tea.
So, any ideas what's happening?
Is the temperature just being reported wrong? Is it (as I suspect) correct, but only the ACPI that's overheating? And is there any way to fix it - whether it's the reporting that's the issue, or a chip somewhere that's doing it?
In particular, I'm slightly concerned that it may be triggering the internal slow-everything-down mechanism that Intel CPUs have to stop themselves dying (Core 0 speed in Cpuz is listed as 1200MHz at the moment, which is perhaps a touch low, I think), but I'm reluctant to turn that off in bios just in case the temperature reading *is* correct and I fry my CPU!
Firstly, an apology for not digging too thoroughly - I'm quite sure there will be threads on this issue (or similar ones), but the search function yields what I'm sure is an eroneous 0 results for "ACPI", "THRM" and "overheating". So I figured I'd do the usual newbie thing and make a new thread and apologies for being a nuissance.
That said, my situation. I'm running an Intel E2180, currently factory clocked (2GHz), though it's been stably overclocked on stock cooling to ~2600MHz for the last two months. It actually doesn't have any problems at ~3GHz either, but the core temperatures go scarily high on this fan. My mobo is a P5N-MX
I noticed this morning, though, that my ACPI-THRM and CPUTIN temperature was reporting as MUCH higher (in HWmonitor, but also in Speedfan, and even in the bios) than it should be - 72C/160F - which is really bizarre, and slightly scary, since 70C, I've read, is pretty close to a CPU's death zone. Which I do not want to enter.
The cores themselves are cool - 24C at stock clockrate, and closer to 36-37C at 2.6GHz.
The heatsink on the CPU is nothing more than warm to the touch, and the one on my mobo itself is slightly warmer, but still no higher than a lukewarm cup of tea.
So, any ideas what's happening?
Is the temperature just being reported wrong? Is it (as I suspect) correct, but only the ACPI that's overheating? And is there any way to fix it - whether it's the reporting that's the issue, or a chip somewhere that's doing it?
In particular, I'm slightly concerned that it may be triggering the internal slow-everything-down mechanism that Intel CPUs have to stop themselves dying (Core 0 speed in Cpuz is listed as 1200MHz at the moment, which is perhaps a touch low, I think), but I'm reluctant to turn that off in bios just in case the temperature reading *is* correct and I fry my CPU!
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