Hi,

I have a Magic-Pro P6PE 1000 mother board. (btw, this is identical to the albatron px865pe pro) In the BIOS on starting up the CPU temperature is reported as 49 degrees celcius and mother board temperature is 30 degrees celcius. This is at leaving computer idle in bios, I don't know what temperature gets too under load.

These readings sound a bit high to me. I have not overclocked anything, all settings are recommended settings. Are these readings normal? Is it the BIOS that might be giving values that are too high? is there a reliable program (for windows) that reads cpu temperatures?

My system is as follows:
P4 2.8C GHz
ATI radeon 9800 Pro 8x AGP
80GB Seagate S-ATA harddrive
512MB (256x2) Kingmax DDR 400 RAM
Creative Labs 5.1 mp3 live
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
Enermax 300W power supply

Hmm those temps seem normal to me... and i dont think that you need to worry about anything.

The readings in the BIOS are mostly very accurate and reliable, but if you need anothoer program to be sure, you can download hmonitor (http://www.hmonitor.com) its a very good program.

Have a nice day :)

I agree with Willow on this :) BTW, Madmartigan kicked ass!

The BIOS temps are usually very accurate. You could try a better HSF and Arctic Silver. What sort of cooling are you running? As far as case and case fans (I assume this is all air cooled).

The 49C is not bad for a 2.8C. Install MBM, if the load temp does not exceed 65C, you are okay.

Thanks for the replies :)

>What sort of cooling are you running? As far >as case and case fans (I assume this is all >air cooled).

I'm using the stock fans .. its a chenming aluminium case .. it has a rear fan, side fan, front, and default CPU fan. i didn't assemble it .. one thing which seemed odd to me is the front fan is in front of the harddrive ... i thought they usually put it underneath so its clear path in front.

anyway, the CPU fan runs at 2700 RPM reported in BIOS, I have two other old computers (pentium III 750 and 933) here and they run at 4000, and 6500 RPM according to their bios!! i can't find anyway to increase the speed of that fan, i'm not sure how its regulated

but ... my system is stable .. i've got both redhat 9.0 and windows 2000 on it ... redhat has never crashed .. but internet explorer does once in a while.

i'm only concerned now because i contacted the store i bought it from and they said the temp should be about 40C, they were surprised that it was 50.

I like the front fan blowing on the hard drive. Make sure the side fan blows in, some come from the case manufacturer set to exhaust air.

The front fan before the harddrive makes sense. I installed speedfan not too long ago because it was very hot here (33°C outside; 35°C inside with 2 computers running) and was more than surprised that my main harddrive (7200 rpm) was hotter than my cpu (cpu 56°C - hdd 59°C - got case fan first thing the next morning!).

That you system is stable sounds good so fast but you should get a program to check the temperature under windows. I suggest Motherboard Monitor (MBM). The newest version I know about is 5.x but it's been a while since I downloaded it.

On my main computer I use VCool because it also shut's the cpu down when not needed which cools it quite when not at 100% use. The problem is that it works only with Via chips.
You can also try CPUIdle to cool your cpu. It's shareware and you can try it for 30 days!

I hope that helps !!

Free,

SpeedFan told me exactly the same thing. I stuffed a 120mm fan from a very old Mac server power supply into the front of the case, moved the disk behind it and hdd temps went from 60° to 52°. Now you know why I like the idea.
VCool drops my cpu 20°C in about a minute.
Sitting at 30° as I type this.

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Thanks for all the feedback ... it seems now there isn't any problem

I installed MBM (was so glad to see its FREE!). for some reason, the temp in bios is close to 50 and was the same when windows starts up ... but it settled to 40, average is 43 after a few hours of use.

I played about a 1/2 hour of Unreal II, the max temps were 32/53 celcius for mobo and cpu respectively.

these numbers seem alright now .. thanks again.

btw, i wrote a little program to shutdown the computer if temps go to high ... its really cool that MBM lets u specify programs to run with the alarms ... the shutdown option requires some additional software which wasn't free so wrote it myself.