Motherboard Temp

Greetings Everyone,

Hope to find everyone having a great day. I downloaded Speccy A little while ago to watch my CPU Temps since I had taken off the heatsink and fan and cleaned it up nice and replaced using Silver 5 and the break in period is now at about 60 hours of its 200 or greater time.

Now comes the question. When I turn on the computer in the mroning or anytime I turn it on until I shut it down my Motherboard temp stays a steady--never flinching once at 40C. Here is a Print Screen:

Operating System

MS Windows XP Media Center Edition Professional 32-bit SP3

CPU

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 32 ?C

Manchester 90nm Technology

RAM

4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR @ 200MHz (3-3-3-8)

Motherboard

ASUSTek Computer INC. NAGAMI (Socket 939) 40 ?C

Graphics

Acer V173 (1280x1024@60Hz)

64MB GeForce 6150 LE (HP)

Hard Drives

488GB Seagate ST95005620AS (SATA) 29 ?C

977GB Seagate ST31000340AS (SATA) 30 ?C

Optical Drives

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652M

Audio

Logitech Mic (Pro 9000)

As you can see, the temps for the cpu and HD's all change gradually or abrubtly from activity, never the motherboard. Am I reading this wrongly? 40C seems a little high.

Pastor William.

Thank you all for any help.

40C is not high from my experience. My ThinkPad laptop right now is reporting 45C and my desktop is reporting 48C. You're in good shape at 40C.

You can see the temps from all 3 of my PCs by clicking on the Speccy links in my signature.

40C is not high from my experience. My ThinkPad laptop right now is reporting 45C and my desktop is reporting 48C. You're in good shape at 40C.

You can see the temps from all 3 of my PCs by clicking on the Speccy links in my signature.

Thank you Nikki,

Yes, I hope 40c isnt so bad with 5 fans in a mid-tower case but my question still arises to ponderment. As I turn on the computer, for example, the HD's will start off at maybe 26c and the CPU will start out at 28c. When I say start up I mean as soon as I can get past start up in windows, but thankfully the seagate Momentus XT drive has cut down a 10 minute plus start up time frame downto about 2 minutes or less. Nevertheless, when I start up Speccy, why is it that the motherboard reads immediately at 40c and then never seems to adjust itself. Does a motherboard heat up that quickly and never cools down or gets warmer?

Thank you again Nikki for the help and anything to help me get a clearer picture of this will be appreciated,

Pastor William