llee8820

Coretemp seems to be telling me different temperatures for my E7200. When I entered bios, it told me my temp for both cores were mid 30sC. But when Windows loaded and I opened core temp, it's telling me mid 40sC. Is something wrong or its normal to jump 10C from boot to windows?

ubernewhacks

Different monitoring programs show different results (to a certain extent) but it makes sense that your CPU will be hotter when it is in use more since it takes next to nothing to run Bios compared to Windows.

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RayvinAzn

The BIOS reads off the surface of the chip, while Coretemp reads the temperature at the core. It's perfectly normal for Coretemp to read around 10-15c higher than your BIOS.

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To my Knowledge, BIOS actually counts as about an 80% load. On my system I read mid 30cs in BIOS and I idle at about 25c in windows. And my old socket A system consistently saw mid 40s in BIOS and I would idle at 37c. I haven't heard that this was different for Intel, but I guess it could be. If someone could let me know if thats right or not, I'd appreciate it, that way I don't go around and tell people something thats not true. I just haven't spent much time in the Intel camp as of late.

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