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Does Asus have an overheating sensor built into is gaming motherboards?

The A7N8X-X has eight pin Winbond chip W83L785TS_S near the processor socket. The chip is next to the upper end of the two DIMM sockets. That chip is an overtemperature detector, and it senses the diode temperature of the processor. If the diode in your processor is bad (open circuit), this controller can fail, but Asus was not negligent - they did waste good money on an overtemperature detector (a.k.a Asus C.O.P - see feature set in your manual). Check MBM for more info.