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AMD 965 Idle Temps
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You should trust CoreTemp.
Unless your room is very cold or you're using some exotic cooling, I doubt very much if your chip is at 22C.
...or RealTemp.
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Those are core temps, not acutal temps use hwmonitor TMPIN2.
Cores are hottest parts of CPU and should be always clearly above room temperature so values being practically same as it means they lie.
CPU value is temperature from physical CPU package and farther from heat source hence it's always clearly lower than actual core temperatures but at least that's entirely real looking value.
wrong mate.
look above, my core temps are lower then the cpu temp, many many other am3 systems are the same..
also this is what amd emailed me about the temperature
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It's physical impossibility for heat producing part to be cooler than casing.
You're actually the one that is wrong. The reason that AMD have told you to look at the cpu temp as opposed to the core temp is because it's a well known fact that the phenom 2 core temp sensors lie.
My phenom 2 - if I'm to believe the core temp - is actually below room temperature, which is physically not possible for air cooling.
Have a read up on thermodynamics, please.
im not wrong.
amd says the overall CPU temperature is the most important one not the core temp, for all they chips, not just phenoms II.
many many years ago when i had a Athlon cpu they said the same thing that the overall CPU temperature is the most important one
maybe thats yours.
but mine is believeable, has my room is around 17c and my core idles at 24-25c so thats 7-8c over room temp..
but thats not the point because the core temp isn't the one you should be looking at.
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Yawn. Did you by any chance go and learn about thermodynamics in the last ten minutes? Nope, I didn't think so.
what is your problem?
just back off..
i'm just saying the overall CPU temperature is the most important one not the core temp, that goes for all amd chips, not just phenoms II.
all amd temps on they site are based on the tcase, not core temp..
i don't really care if the core sensor lies, has thats not the important one.
end of...
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I don't have one. Just pointing out the fact that you are, indeed wrong.
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Yip, but you're running a phenom 2... and from the above, you quite clearly believed that your core temps were below the cpu case temp.
If you had an acurate core temp reading, that would be a far more important reading than the CPU case temp reading, as the case isn't generating the heat...
see above.
i said the overall CPU temperature is the most important one, because all they temps on amd site are based on tcare,
even if the core sensor was works, amd don't set max core temps because each chip as it own limit. one chip maybe fine at 75c on the cores, where another chip maybe only fine at 65c
u can usely work out the real core temp. on my 940 the core temp was about 11 - 13c over the tcare temp.
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