Cheers for that Dale, I thought that might be the case as the temperature of the air exhausting from the case feels only about 23-25 degrees to me! At least I know not to panic now... but I think I'll try and avoid BIOS upgrades after my last little episode!
> Hi Jamie, > > > > my AMD-3000+ Newcastle CPU, ran at approximately 65C from day one of my PC > build (~1 year ago). There seems to be a general problem with the bios > temperature reporting for the newer AMD64's. MSI, ABit, Shuttle all these > mobo makers had problems with the second generation AMD64's. > > > > In my case, ;-) my motherboard is a MSI-K8TNeo, and a bios update "fixed" > the problem. I say "fixed" because the temps now run ridiculously *low* - > 25C or so. > > > > So, there is a track record of temp overreporting for AMD64's, yours might > be another example. > > > > Dale > > >
