E5300 Stuck Core Temp?

[Stereodude]

So I built up my new HTPC yesterday. It works surprisingly well. :bow:

This morning I was checking the temperature of the CPU using Real Temp and CoreTemp. They reported the same thing, but core-0 appears to be stuck at 40C regardless of the load on the CPU (though the other core never got that hot). Core-1 moves around dynamically as I would expect.

I did a little Googling and there seem to be other people with stuck temp readings on Wolfdale CPUs. I had never seen this before, but apparently it's not that unheard of. :dunno:

 

[MaxBurn]

Have heard of it, also thought it was odd. Not sure if that effects the throttling protection portion or not. If it did I would certainly consider RMA.

 

[Stereodude]

From what I've read online the stuck ones work above that temp, they just won't work below it. 40C isn't enough to engage any sort of thermal protection, so I guess I won't worry about it.