5 degrees difference in dually rig normal?

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TekieB

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Okay, I just built a dual amd mobile rig, and I booted and looked on my bios temp screen to see a 5c differecnce in temps....is this normal (same HSF) or should I try reseating them?
 
I'm not sure, but I think it would be safe to assume that when not using an SMP program, that one proc is taking a larger load and would be under more stress than the other so its temps would be high.
 
obyj34 said:
I'm not sure, but I think it would be safe to assume that when not using an SMP program, that one proc is taking a larger load and would be under more stress than the other so its temps would be high.
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That along with the fact that they probably arent getting the same amount of airflow due to placement on the motherboard, 5c isn't bad. My friend has a dual 1ghz p3 machine, and his is 8c off (mainly because he has a fan on his door right over the main CPU, he thought it was the secondary one at the time)
 
obyj34 said:
I'm not sure, but I think it would be safe to assume that when not using an SMP program, that one proc is taking a larger load and would be under more stress than the other so its temps would be high.
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this is idle in the BIOS (plus the higher is CPU1, not CPU0) But I had to pull them off anyway because they needed more volts (damn pin mods) so I'm using real thermal goop this time
 
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