October 23, 200916 yr Hello people !I have a I7-920 overclock to 3.99mhz (thanks NickN :( ) on an Asus Rampage Gene II board that come with a small exterior LCD poster that i use for monitoring temperature of the CPU, northbridge, Southbridge and Motherboard itself; with this device the CPU temp is between 64 to 67 Celsius when playing FSX ;The concern i have is i downloaded "RealTemp" and it indicate 79 to 81 Celsius ?!Which one is accurate ? i really do not want to fry my CPU....when i exit FSX it goes back down to +/- 47 degrees and if i reboot in the bios, that is about what it shows..Any ideas ?Thank you !Alain from Montreal
October 23, 200916 yr Hello people !I have a I7-920 overclock to 3.99mhz (thanks NickN :( ) on an Asus Rampage Gene II board that come with a small exterior LCD poster that i use for monitoring temperature of the CPU, northbridge, Southbridge and Motherboard itself; with this device the CPU temp is between 64 to 67 Celsius when playing FSX ;The concern i have is i downloaded "RealTemp" and it indicate 79 to 81 Celsius ?!Which one is accurate ? i really do not want to fry my CPU....when i exit FSX it goes back down to +/- 47 degrees and if i reboot in the bios, that is about what it shows..Any ideas ?Thank you !Alain from MontrealI suspect that your mobo display is showing the CPU case temp, where RealTemp is reporting the core temps.47 deg C is a bit warm at idle...80 deg is my personal max on CPU core temps, so you're at the wall from my perspective. Keep in mind that the memory controller on the CPU is in an area that is not thermally monitored, and on a 920 with a locked multiplier, overclocking the BCLK to 200MHz to get to 4GHz is really pushing that section of the chip hard and you don't really know how hot the silicon there is getting.What kind of case and cooling are you using? Is lowering the ambient temp in the room an option? It'd be nice to get your temps down 3-5 deg C.CheersBob ScottColonel, USAF (ret)ATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-VColorado Springs, CO Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
October 23, 200916 yr Author Hello Bob,I am using a CoolerMaster CM690 nVidia edition that has 3 X 120mm fans, they are wired thru the Power supply (that is on the bottom of the case) so they are running @ 12volts; the degrees reported on the Asus poster are depicted as follow:1: CPU @ 67 degrees2: NB @ 66 (northbridge)3: SB @ 47 ?!(not certain of that value...) (Southbridge)4: MB @ 28 (Motherboard) or can translate to ambient temp inside caseThe Temp value in Bios is in Celsius. Also when i check in the Bios, the temp indicated for the cpu is 2-3 degrees less than on the poster, probably normal since on reboot, the cpu cools down a bit and is not " working" per say.I will check tonight if i have the correct version of "Realtemp", i use Vista 64....Alain from Montreal
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