Hi, My Asus K7V133 has also a processor temperature at about 50C with a BIOS v1004A on it. I got a Athlon 1,2 GHZ, and have 1,024 GB memory. I've got a Globalwin heatsink which works nicely, but have heard that the Swifttech is the top of the crop. http://www.crazypc.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=120199&Product_Code=5068 So I suppose I'll stay with that BIOS too. Jostein

===== Original Message From ===== Hello, everyone.

There has been a great deal of traffic on this list recently regarding Asus' new BIOS limiting our efforts to keep our CPUs cool. I just thought I'd share my experience this morning. Admittedly, this is the wife's W2K machine, but this is a hardware issue, not an OS issue.

This machine has an Asus A7M266 mobo in it, running an Athlon 1.333 CPU. Until yesterday, it had BIOS v1004A on it. Yesterday I *upgraded* it to v1005. Under the previous BIOS, the idle temp was 50-51C, which is high, but acceptable. With the new BIOS, this leaped to 60-61C. I left it over night doing nothing, just to see if it would settle down. This morning it was still humming away at 60C. This, I'm afraid, is unacceptable. I downgraded the BIOS back to the older 1004A, and at the next reboot, the temp was back down to 50C. These temps are all obtained using Asus own monitoring utility. It seems that if we wish to upgrade our Asus mobos to these newer BIOS, we need much more heavy duty heat sinks. I have my eye on the Swiftech MC462. So, until I can justify spending $70 for a heatsink, it looks as though this machine will be staying with the older BIOS revision.

Bye for now, Stuart.

P.S. I just found this interesting thread. Now I am in a quandry. http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.php?s=c8df7c2062228c2d78abed99ba9a20d7&th readid=68077

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