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Try flashing the BIOS. The Asus boards in particular have been known to mis-represent the actual CPU temperature. It's probably due to a miscalibrated diode or other such device. Also, what kind of HSF are you using with your system? My advice would be to perform a BIOS flash (make sure you read and understand the directions that ASUS provides for flashing their BIOS completely before attempting to flash the BIOS), and then look at the installation of the HSF. If the HSF is not making proper contact with the HSF, then the HSF would not necessarily be hot to the touch, but the CPU could get very hot. Common causes of improper contact are:
-HSF on backwards (there's a divot in the bottom of the HSF, that's there to give clearance over the raised portion of the socket). If it's on backwards, the HSF would only have a contact patch of roughly half or less the normal area, causing heat-transfer to be less than stellar.
-Too much/too little thermal transfer material between the HSF and CPU die. Thermal grease should only be applied in a layer roughly the thickness of one or two sheets of paper, and if too thick actually INSULATES the processor from the HSF. It's just there to provide a near 100% contact area for the CPU to the HSF to ensure maximum transfer of heat. It's just supposed to fill any microscopic valleys in the base of the heatsink.
Also, remember that if you remove the HSF for any reason, you need to THOROUGHLY clean the CPU die (raised center of the processor package, usually a near black color) with acetone, alchohol, or, what I use, naptha (zippo lighter fuel) to remove the thermal interface material, and then alchohol afterwards to clean off the naptha. You should not re-use thermal pads or goop. Higher quality greases like Arctic silver work very well.
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