Well I still haven't heard anything concrete from Coolergiant/Enermax. The last reply I got does leave room for speculation and also brings up a point that I wasn't aware of. Here is what Carol Chen sent me on February 25th.
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Hi James,
Thanks for checking me back on this issue...
I don?t know yet if scary is the word for it, but mysterious certainly is. The Enermax units are running at very near the top of the pack through 75% loading and then at some (unspecified in the article) point above that they simple shut off. There has got to be more to that story.
And I need...
How could a reading of 60C be 40-degrees higher then the actual physical temperature if the ambient is 20C; that would mean an actual temperature equal to ambient, or in other words perfect thermal efficiency? If this is a typo you might want to fix it or she will misunderstand.
By the way I...
I submit to you that if your ambient temperature is 20C as you said earlier, then this reading from Sandra in not ?realistic?. Unless you believe that you are only running 4-degrees above ambient on air, a mark that a lot of folks would like to be able to reach with water-cooling! I am afraid...
SANDRA is notoriously inaccurate when it comes to temperature readings. It is certainly not going to be more accurate then a reading from within a properly written BIOS. And it shouldn?t be more accurate then a Windows monitoring program written (and hopefully updated) by the motherboard...
Sorry, I originally wrote the wrong dates, and it appears you quoted me. That should have read 5-14th February.
Now that that is clear, thank you for the info Lydia.
Good fortune to you and your new spouse in the coming year of Yiyou (ji the Rooster).
Peace
James
Edit: correct dates
The temps are wrong, I have little doubt. Just for reference to help you maybe figure a little closer to your actual temps. With a Zalman 7700AlCu and 3500+ (Newcastle) at 20C ambient I was getting 50C on the Soltek, at idle nothing overclocked. My Asus A8V with the same setup reads 32C.
So...
Lydia, this is good news. Will the BIOS update be made available before your company goes on holiday 5-14th January for the Chinese New Year?
Will the BIOS update also remove the irrelevant ?5V reading?
Thank you for your participation here, and have a Happy New Year!
Peace
James
My power supply is an Enermax EG475P-VE operating properly under the ATX 1.3 standard of April 2003, which removed guidance for ?5V rails; there is no problem with my power supply. The motherboard doesn't use -5V; there is no reason for it to be in the BIOS, or in the HM software where it causes...
Same here, I want to see the temperature reading issue addressed. I set up my new board (RMA) and it got the same readings as the original, so it was not a one-off sensor issue.
I also want to see an official BIOS release that removes the irrelevant ?5V reading, and the same for the HM...
The Zalman 7700 should fit in that case with no problems. I would however seriously consider replacing the junk PSU those things ship with if you haven?t done so already.
Peace
James
Rocketman14,
The Asus board worked without issue right off the bat.
The Soltek is a handsome board and appears to be of very high quality in its construction. I have had the -5V reading issue, which Soltek has acknowledged, and word from Lydia that there is a beta BIOS gives my hope that...
Thanks for the offer, and I will probable take you up on that. Although I wonder why a BETA BIOS wouldn't be posted on your website, as long as it is clearly marked as such, other manufactures do this.
Either way it will have to wait as I have RMAed the SL-K8Tpro-939 and it will be a week or...
Actually I was hoping for readings from within the BIOS setup. Let the computer warm up at idle and then reboot and enter BIOS. Windows based HW monitoring software can be inaccurate.
Peace
James
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