which temp should I believe?

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:27 pm

So I built myself a new rig and installed the asus AI2 suit that has all the temperature statuses and at idol the CPU runs about 30 Degrees Celsius.

Now i just installed coretemp RC1 RC4 and its saying my CPU temp at idol is 15-20 (jumps up and down alot degrees Celsius.

Which one should I believe?

Specs of new PC:

CPU: AMD FX8350 8 core (Vishera) @ 4.113Ghz
CPU cooling: Antec KUHLER H2O 620 Liquid Cooling System
RAM: 32 gigs Patriot 1600 DDR3 RAM @ 4x8 gig sticks
Motherboard Asus sabertooth 990fx rev 2.0
Video card: EVGA (02G-P4-3660-KR) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB GDDR5
Hard drives: Intel SSD 330 120 gig x2 in RAID 0, Segate 2 terabyte HDD
PSU: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX850 V2 850W 80PLUS Bronze
Case: Zalman Z9 series mid tower
Monitors: Dell 22" LCD E228WFP (primary), ViewSonic 19" VAWM-3(Secondary)

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:20 am

Congrats on the new build

I've gotten conflicting info like that before also.
Not sure why but pretty common to get different temperatures from different sources.
Many say trust the BIOS more than anything else.

A third opinion helps me: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
http://www.piriform.com/speccy

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:48 am

30 seems right...15-20 is way low. I've been out of the 'watching temps' game for a while now but from what I remember 30 sounds attainable.

And WOW, very nice system...Congrats. I have been contemplating a new system but just really don't want to reinstall everything and get it setup.

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:04 am

loop2kil wrote:30 seems right...15-20 is way low. I've been out of the 'watching temps' game for a while now but from what I remember 30 sounds attainable.

And WOW, very nice system...Congrats. I have been contemplating a new system but just really don't want to reinstall everything and get it setup.

Thanks!

Setup wasn't too bad. Nice thing about these new mombo's is that you can update the BIOS now with a USB key and all you need is motherboard connected to the PSU and press a button on the mombo. Posted on first boot!

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:29 am

Very nice system, although I would ditch the raid 0, it's just too darn risky.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:06 am

Ya, 15-20 is a lie. lol

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:19 am

TonyT wrote:Very nice system, although I would ditch the raid 0, it's just too darn risky.

got a paragon image file of my ssd's so ill be good if it crashes....

edit...the image file took less then 10 min to make

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:29 pm

TonyT wrote:Very nice system, although I would ditch the raid 0, it's just too darn risky.

very nice PC ya got Nightowl, very nice

i have been running raid-0 ssd's for over a year and make a image every week with true image, never had an issue, hope i didn't just jinx myself LOL

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:51 pm

Never had a problem with RAID 0, though I do prefer RAID 5 now.

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:28 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Never had a problem with RAID 0, though I do prefer RAID 5 now.

might do that later down the road if/when I get more SSD's. Think I want to setup an SLI and get 3 monitors going. We will see.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:31 am

nightowl wrote:got a paragon image file of my ssd's so ill be good if it crashes....

edit...the image file took less then 10 min to make

10 min is damn good. The true test is doing an image restore.