see the subject. temperature for CPU is "calibrated" and other updates as well. -- Thomas Geery Network+ certified ftp://geerynet.d2g.com ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... over 130,000 FTP users served! ^^^^^^^
not really... I just know there has always been a certain noise level about the IS7 and IC7 series boards and a (real or perceived) inaccuracy in how the CPU temperature reads. I was only quoting from the update.txt file on the Abit web site regarding the "calibration" and there was no additional information other than that. -- Thomas Geery Network+ certified ftp://geerynet.d2g.com ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... over 130,000 FTP users served! ^^^^^^^
I've been running this BIOS for a few days. There doesn't seem to have been any difference in the idle/load temps between the older builds and 24, so what the "calibration" means I don't really know. Could be related more to the Prescotts I suppose, but there's no way I'm stripping my machine down and swapping the processors just to find out. -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace .nospam with .com in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com Get the most out of your digital photos www.dabsxpose.com
Awww go on Richard, you know you want to! We both know it'll be niggling you if you don't try it and find out! ;o) regards, Dion L Heap www.thetophouse.com
What's with Flashmenu? I used it to update the bios and it flashed to 2.3 instead of 2.4. I was at 2.2.
for some reason, Abit has yet to update the Flashmenu bios sets on their servers. you can still use flashmenu by extracting the file and then doing a local file update instead of an online update. -- Thomas Geery Network+ certified ftp://geerynet.d2g.com ftp://68.98.180.8 Abit Mirror <----- Cable modem IP This IP is dynamic so it *could* change!... over 130,000 FTP users served! ^^^^^^^
Yea, that is what I did do in the end. Running 2.4 now and my cpu temps are exactly the same as before.
In the ABIT forums, a couple ppl with Prescotts reported ~5 C lower temps from their processors, while the Northwoods remained unchanged.
Lol, there we go Dion, told you I wasn't going to strip my system down just to answer that one. :-D Still, if the Prescott temperatures have dropped from Nuclear to Supercritical, it's hardly like it's a cool running CPU, is it? ;-) -- Richard Hopkins Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom (replace .nospam with .com in reply address) The UK's leading technology reseller www.dabs.com Get the most out of your digital photos www.dabsxpose.com
