Q9450 Temps/Sensors?

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Interested

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Hey everyone, im just wondering, i read that the e8400 has faulty temp sensors. Yesterday/Today i finished building a computer for my friend (D3R1K93) with a q9450. We used AS-5 and a Zalman 9700:D. However, his idle temps are around 49C! I thought the 45nm chips were cooler than the 65nm? I have a q6600 with the stock cooler and i get wayyyy better temps. he is even using the antec 900, while i am not! Whats up with this? What should we do? Does it have faulty sensors?:confused:

Thanks,
Interested.
 
It could be many things, either you used too much or too little thermal compound, his heatsink/fan is not secured properly, or you are comparing the temps using two different methods (BIOS vs SpeedFan for instance).
 
i used a grain of rice for the compound, the zalman is on really tightly, and im using HWmonitor by CPUID. Is that good? That company also makes CPU-Z.
 
Is that his CPU temp? or one of his core temps?

I was told that the new 45nm chips don't register right on software made older chips, and was recommended to realtemp. It'll give about 10C drop per core. Whether it's right or not, is beyond me.

My Q9450's core temps are 32, 28, 24, 26. That's with realtemp, with everything else they are 10C hotter.

My CPU temp is probably messed up..it jumps around randomly from 15-24.
 
/\/\/\ lol. I dont think its nonsense because thats what is says in the instructions, (which i didnt follow)..lol.
 
Interested said:
/\/\/\ lol. I dont think its nonsense because thats what is says in the instructions, (which i didnt follow)..lol.
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It's nonsense because they don't know what they are talking about. If using a dot the size of a grain or rice to the size of a small pea properly fills in the air gaps between the heatspreader and heatsink, then why would they say you need to do it in a straight line on a quad core?

And don't say nonsense of it's because theres more surface area on a quad core, because the Pentium D 8xx had two physical CPU cores on one processor, so under the heatspreader it would look very similar to the present quad cores which have two dual-cores on one processor.
 
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