TMPIN1 seems very high

Greetings..bare with my ignorance as i have only worked on the x-58 classified from evga..
I am assuming this temperature is the mainboard or north bridge? im use to seeing system temps of 24c and mainboard temps of 25c..this tmpin1 idles at 75c without overclocks..about 85c with them..
Does anyone here know the max thermal limit? this seems way to high and i am a temp freak..right now i only keep my chip on water but now am thinking of aftermarket cooling for the board

Quote from: HU16E on 10-July-10, 13:23:50
Water cooling on the CPU, that explains a lot. No passive air getting to the IOH.
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I did and to the dude saying water cooling explains it..i have 4 90cf fans on the side blowing into the case huge fan fron blowing to the case top fans fan..(haf 932) it had nothing to do with air flow
I believe that reference is toward me. To be specific, I said 'explains a lot' not explains 'it'. To say air flow has nothing to do with it is an incorrect assumption. You can have ten fans blowing in from the side & that doesn't necessarily equal good air flow. No need to start an argument over this, make your concerns known to MSI Tech Support. For comparison, the BB X-Pwr I just built for an uncle was 54C at idle, mine was 52C last week & has come down to hovering at 49-50C. Both use Zalman 9900's on the CPU that provides a little bit of passive air, & no additional cooling directed at the IOH has been added. The fact remains, as long as the IOH temp doesn't exceed 95C Tcontrol at sustained full load, there should never be any issues, & that's per Intel. Lifespan & performance according to their specs, is the same at 95C as it is at 50C.

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1093 Kendall    85M   77M sleep   59    0   0:07:15 1.1% Xsun/1
1802 Kendall    60M   15M sleep   59    0   0:00:08 0.1% gnome-terminal/2
1301 Kendall    93M   23M sleep   49    0   0:00:30 0.1% java/14
1259 Kendall    53M   15M sleep   49    0   0:00:32 0.1% gaim/1
2133 Kendall 3312K 2740K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
1276 Kendall    51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:11 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
1247 Kendall    46M   10M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% metacity/1
1274 Kendall    51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% wnck-applet/1
1249 Kendall    56M   17M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% gnome-panel/1
1278 Kendall    48M 9240K sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% mixer_applet2/1
1245 Kendall 9092K 3844K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
1227 Kendall 8244K 4444K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% xscreensaver/1
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1262 Kendall    47M 2268K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
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2260 Kendall       59M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 1.0% gnome-terminal/2
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28967 Kendall     56M   18M sleep   59    0   0:00:24 0.1% gnome-panel/1
29060 Kendall     93M   24M sleep   49    0   0:02:58 0.1% java/14
28994 Kendall     51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:23 0.1% wnck-applet/1
28965 Kendall     49M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:33 0.0% metacity/1
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28996 Kendall     51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:50 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
2264 Kendall    1352K 972K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% csh/1
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