I heard back from Soyo
The Temp being read by Sandra is the Ondie CPU Temp. The maximum Ondie Temp
for your CPU is 80C, so 74C is acceptable but its a little high.
You cannot disable Hyperthreading in the P4 CPU.
Thank You! Have a Nice Day!
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SOYO Technical Support...
Not the only one with that problem:
I also have a soyo P4VTP board, P4 Northwood 3.0ghz, 512m pc3200 ddr ram, with the whole thing running at 800mhz FSB and I was getting the exact same temperature readings as the original poster. 44C on the motherboard when booting (in the bios temperature...