Originally posted by Spun247
My motherboard temps are reading kinda high too, around 35-40 deg Cel. I have an intake fan in the front and an exhaust fan in the back. These are in addition to my Antec SmartBlue dual fan power supply. While this is nothing elaborate, I would expect it to be enough to keep a retail P4 at stock settings adequately cool. Oddly, the temp doesn't change when I overclock it. I ran Sandra's Burn-in wizard 30x last night with it at 2.4 and the temps never went more than the usual ~4deg above idle(55deg max). Could my motherboard be reporting the temps wrong? Because the system is rock stable so far, I'm just worried about burning up the CPU in 3mos if its really running that hot. Any further help would be greatly appreciated.
You can get a fairly cheap thermal probe at Radio Shack.