Q9450 high idle/load temps (2 of them)

[HaVoK-G2]

Seen the same thing looking around and experienced it myself:

With Realtemp 2.2.4.0 idle temps are:
34 34 32 36

Running 20 mins of Prime95 v25.6 @4 Threads making all four cores go 100% load:
46 46 45 47

EVGA 790i
q9450 OEM
Thermalright Ultima 90 w/Scythe s-flex 63.7CFM 120mm 1600rpm fan
Artic Silver 5

Seems some people can fix the problem by reseating the Cpu.
Read around abit and saw the same thing that Amuro said.

Everest and coretemp both show high temps, but so does the bios.

It did OC rather well, no voltage increase needed, went to 450x8 which brought me to 3.6ghz. Ran 3d mark and games stable. Just wish I could see proper temps.

[INear]

Well I was at a loss tonight when I took the Q9300 back to Fry's Electronics tonight. On my G33 chipset motherboard and my 780i motherboard, the CPU was reporting high temps. Tried it uder water cooling and my Big Typhoon. Both times with multiple reseating and they were 50 idle. They plugged it in at Fry's and the cpu was reporting 28 through the BIOS. I don't know. I will wait and get a Q9450. Don't know if it was the chipsets or BIOS's or whatever. Still strange.

[qtip]

Originally Posted by INear

Well I was at a loss tonight when I took the Q9300 back to Fry's Electronics tonight. On my G33 chipset motherboard and my 780i motherboard, the CPU was reporting high temps. Tried it uder water cooling and my Big Typhoon. Both times with multiple reseating and they were 50 idle. They plugged it in at Fry's and the cpu was reporting 28 through the BIOS. I don't know. I will wait and get a Q9450. Don't know if it was the chipsets or BIOS's or whatever. Still strange.

After testing with my Q6600 and my Q9450 on an ASUS Premium P5K, I'm' 99% sure it is BIOS support. Under water, my Q6600 idled at 28C and Prime95 small FFT load at 45C (BIOS). Putting in my Q9450 (with only a beta BIOS for C1 stepping support), I get 41C idle and load at 61C prime95. First I wonder if its my water setup so I put in a lapped TRUE-120 and my temps: 45C idle and 70C prime95. Im not too concerned about core temps, but BIOS temp has me a little freaked out since I will do a lot of encoding and such on this quad. Also after 2 re-seats on each I get the same temps.

[b0naf1de]

I have the same setup.
P5K Premium / Q9450.
My idle temp is 40-41c and load of 50c with dual orthos @ stock voltage and stock speed on a water cooling setup with koolance exos-2lx, swiftech apogee gtx.
even under stock and aftermarket air cooler im still getting the exact same idle temp and just around the same load with water being only a couple degrees less.
tried the same setup with a dual core e6850 and the difference is more than 20 degrees load (air vs water). so its def not my cooling setup. something is wrong with the bios.
all my core probes seem to be working and none is stuck but the temps is definately not accurate. no heat from the radiator no heat in the tubing... but such high load temps... reseated/repasted. articleaned..articsilver..mx-2.. whatever. same ****