Computer Question
 

I keep getting this error from my newly built computer

"Processor Terminal Margin has reached a critical 8 degree's Celsius"

Is this to be worried about?
I have 6 fans blowing on the CPU

It happens when I play UT3

My specs
4 GIG Ram
2.4 Quad Core
Vista x64 Unlimited

bring your PC back to the shop, they may have unsealed the cpu, or misplaced the electro-magnet on the maincore, or something that may just be messing with the temp, detector...

is 8 degree's Celsius even bad? It only happens when I run UT3. Anything else like Maya and stuff it runs fine the current temp is 45F

ah, you did not mention the game at first.. lol

did you check the configuration of your dual processor, to see if only one was working? (if you have a dual core actually...)

heatup is always seen in big games like UT3... but having a heatup that big with an alert, not sure if it is safe... i would go to the shop anyway... to recalibrate the temp detector...

Well how do I check. It's a quad core....so were dealing with 4 of them.



but 8C is not hot honestly....If it was running at 40C then I could see a heat problem.


Or is it backwards on a PC?

You'd wish to have your CPU running at 8?C. All Core 2 Duos/Core 2 Quads on a B3 revision can run up to 65?C, all G0 revisions can run up to 72?C. I believe you have a Q6600. Also, unless you're using liquid cooling/phase change/exotic cooling, you can't get a processor below room ambient temperature because the laws of physics says so :D. And you'd be lucky to get 5?C more than ambient on stock cooling at idle.

Which application shows that error? Screenshot?

See the attachment.

It only happens when I play UT3.............Is this something to be worried about? I have 6 fans blowing right on the processor. 8C = 46.4F

I wouldn't worry about it... My processor runs twice that hot at times. Thought I have an AMD processor and they run hotter than Intel chips from what I understand. Haven't had an Intel chip since 1995.

It sounds like a setting that was set in either the BIOS or the Intel Desktop Utilities (user set) to monitor temperatures. This temp was either manually set to 8 degrees or a program has set it to that. In most cases, opening that program and editing the temperature threshold to 80 (add a zero on the end) will fix it to where you want to be. As Wayne Luke said - nothing to worry about - its just a monitor for your hardware and it is set ridiculously low.

well you wouldn't want it to be that hot and set it to that value(80C). That Intel program's message can be quite useful but not in a value like 8C because that's way too low... set it to something like 30C or maybe Room temp because if you set it to 80C, It might me burning at that point and you still don't know about it :p