Ok, so I had recently RUN into problems with FANS and others not being detected, so I re-fastened them inside, later after checking and updating from Intel's website my desktop board software, everything seemed to go fine at first, PC Wizard 2010 showed the main fans I've been missing (Inlet/outlet fan, CPU fan, Power/Aux fan, etc) and After updating, I restarted my PC. Everything looked fine, but seemingly in the BIOS it claimed the CPU core temp was at 42°C, not bad, right?

Now I'm booted up into Windows 7 just a few minutes later and my temps have skyrocketed, in PC Wizard, temps show 96°C - 112°C, changing intervals from minute-to minute, sometimes showing 78°C, and a few peak times, both MB and CPU temps showing 32°C. So what's true and how can I TELL if my system is really overheating or not? My PC would likely cool down easy after a restart so I don't want to risk losing stats, anyways...

I a few snapshots as proof of these raging temps, jic anyone wanted to VIEW them...



[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by admin]Simple, leave the BIOS hardware monitor up (or wherever else in the BIOS that displays temps) and see if the temps rise. The BIOS will only be wrong if the thermal sensor has malfunctioned/failed.