From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 17:20:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11EF16A425 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9282743D4C for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [80.192.2.135] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJw9U-0004by-Qe; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:44 +0000 Message-ID: <44199E69.8010407@dial.pipex.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:41 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060305 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter References: <20060316165503.80055.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060316165503.80055.qmail@web60019.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disappointed with version 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:47 -0000 Peter wrote: >The values I'm getting fluctuate wildly. Sometimes with a difference >of 30 degrees after waiting just a couple of seconds. > > That really doesn't sound good to me, but I don't really have enough experience of system building to do more than guess at the cause. I would strongly suspect the heatsink/processor bond but couldn't be sure. I have no idea if the actually monitoring chip could be faulty, for example, or if it could be a BIOS problem (problems related to bad temperature readings certainly *can* exist but fluctuating temps is a bit different). If no-one here can help, maybe try an overclockers forum - just because there tends to be a lot of system building experience there. Maybe ASUS support would help (but I wouldn't hold my breath). As I said, I went for arctic silver with my heatsink, but I got to apply it to clean components and it gets a bit harder if you have to clean the thermal paste off. They do a cleaner as well and had pretty good instructions on their website when I last looked. --Alex