Help idle is too high

[Milanolatino24]

Hi.

My Friend has just built a gaming rig and when i monitored his temps using HWmonitor i noticed the temps are acting strange. its siting between 50-60c at idle and when gaming lets say on bf4 it will drop to 28c, i have tried re-seating the cpu with new thermal paste and that didnt really do anything. he is running it on a ga-f2a88xm-hd3 mobo and a R9 270 GPU. anyone got any ideas?

Cheers guys

 

[mickyflinn]

Try a different software like core temp or real temp, if you get the same readings its probably a faulty sensor on the cpu.

 

[Milanolatino24]

yeah i have tried several different monitoring software i get the same reading on everyone i have tried so far, i am now going to install my artic cooling freezer too it and see what happens,

 

[DanielCoffey]

Is there any chance you are looking at the value that is Tcore Relative to the Thermal Cutoff? That would explain the inverse temperature values shown.

 

[Milanolatino24]

i am taking the reading from the peak temps on HW monitor and AMD overdrive software. my arctic cooler didnt make a difference either so i think its a faulty sensor or software issues

 

[Milanolatino24]

resurecting this one.

after the place of purchase has had the CPU for 2 weeks for "extensive testing" they can find no fault!!!??? it is still idleing between 50-60 and drops when gaming?

any ideas