Phenom II temp madness

Two days ago, I´ve finally received my new Phenom II system (see my system specs) and yesterday and today I found the time to build it. Being really enthusiastic about the OC's I've seen with Phenom II's, I directly started to OC after the installation of XP (64-bit).

Now my temperatures are really confusing, I don't know if they are real or if I got faulty sensors. This because I used to get temps like 52 degrees while priming with an Athlon X2 4800+ @ 3,2GHz with 1,475 Vcore cooled by a ThermalTake Ruby Orb (all ALU heatsink) and the IHS of the CPU removed.

My new temp with my Phenom II X3 720 @ 3,6GHz with 1,5 Vcore cooled by a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 is 33 degrees if I have to trust HWMonitor, 41 according to a motherboard sensor and 36 reported by Asus probe. I expected a drop in temperature because my new heatsink is way better than the previous one I had and the CPU is 45nm, but I can't really believe 41 degrees while priming at 1,5 volt.

So my question to you (phenom II owners), are these temps correct?

Any responses are greatly appreciated.



Edit: forgot to mention that the heatsink feels just slightly warm when I touch it and that I have applied OCZ Freeze TIM as in the last way described in this article: http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...ask=view&id=170&Itemid=1&limit=1&limitstart=5

-iDont

LittleLizard said:

maybe is just a faulty reading, try using another software

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Well, I've tried Everest and Speedfan as well. Both applications give me around the same temperatures as those posted in my first post. Core Temp doesn't support my CPU.