HW Monitor - CPU or Core Temps?

ken0y · 3 Jan 2013 at 16:18

Hey pps, Im just getting into stress testing my OC and Im monitoring with HWMonitor, my questions is; which reading is important for CPU temp, the individual core temps or the overall CPU temp?

My core temps seem to be around 10C lower than the CPU.

Thanks guys, K

jotto · 3 Jan 2013 at 16:55

What CPU are you running, what cooler and what case and fans? What temperature do the cores get to and what temp for the CPU case?

Need to sort my system out but under load, the cores always get hotter than the CPU case.

Doomedspeed · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:30

Its best keeping an eye on the cores.. Thats a true representation..

Resident · 3 Jan 2013 at 17:59

Doomedspeed said:
Its best keeping an eye on the cores.. Thats a true representation..

Really? So explain how an air-cooler is managing 10°c UNDER ambient if that's true.

I'm more incined to believe that my CPU is at 33°c than 14.5°c (current ambient 23.9°c)

j.col · 3 Jan 2013 at 18:09

Resident said:
Really? So explain how an air-cooler is managing 10°c UNDER ambient if that's true.

I'm more incined to believe that my CPU is at 33°c than 14.5°c (current ambient 23.9°c)

it may be that the tjmax value is wrong in the monitoring program.
iirc this happened with the old Q6600's, the G0 revision was 100, but the B3 was 90, yet coretemp reported them the same.
so this gave a difference of 10.C.
@ OP i prefer to use realtemp and/or coretemp, but hwmonitor is as good, i also watch the core temps

Resident · 3 Jan 2013 at 18:26

Mine's AMD Phenom II X4 B60.

Which would you believe:

http://i.imgur.com/ny6x7.png

NB: Couldn't run Realtemp, CPU not supported

SeraphX · 3 Jan 2013 at 18:32

Core readings are always wrong with HW monitor on AMD chips, run with the TMPIN readings, it'll be either TMPIN0 or TMPIN1

Sayso · 3 Jan 2013 at 20:51

Yep there are no core sensors on AMD chips its all guess work, all max temps given by AMD are for case temps.

GoogalyMoogaly · 3 Jan 2013 at 20:55

j.col said:
it may be that the tjmax value is wrong in the monitoring program.
iirc this happened with the old Q6600's, the G0 revision was 100, but the B3 was 90, yet coretemp reported them the same.
so this gave a difference of 10.C.
@ OP i prefer to use realtemp and/or coretemp, but hwmonitor is as good, i also watch the core temps

How do you get RealTemp to work with an AMD chip?