Need advice on what temp to read for my cpu

JamesTrendall · 30 Mar 2013 at 21:19

Hi so i have had problems with my temps reading high and i just got a new temp program and im confused what to read.

before i used coretemp and i always was given the temps from the bottem of this picture but now CPUID is giving me a lower temp at the top. im unsure what to read and go by. also what is a safe temp? when gaming it can reach in to the low 70's but on CPUID the temps at the top of this picture will still read 45-50*

OLDPHART · 31 Mar 2013 at 14:46

Your CPU is a? > lol just as l posted my reply just noticed its a AMD, but it would have been easier to say what it was as its not to clear.

JamesTrendall · 1 Apr 2013 at 07:29

Sorry yeah my CPU is AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE.

Ollie1132 · 1 Apr 2013 at 09:14

What was wrong with coretemp? It reports pretty closely for me to that of CPUID HWMONITOR. But the temps you want to read in HW monitor are the ones that are on each individual core as they are usually the most accurate.

EyepodI · 1 Apr 2013 at 09:19

The temperatures at the top of your screen shot are from various motherboard temperature sensors and are different from those for the CPU core. They measure ambient temperature at various points on the board itself (case, chipset, close to cpu...). You'll have to check your motherboard manual to find out what they're measuring exactly. Sometimes these ones can be a bit skewed.

The important ones for you are the core temperatures listed under the processor name in your screen shot. These are the temps from the CPU cores themselves.

As for safe temps I don't really know for that processor. But high 80's I would start getting concerned. You'd want low-mid 30s or below if overclocked and idling. Mid 70s max ideally if overclocked and stressed.

JamesTrendall · 1 Apr 2013 at 22:06

Thank you for the replys.

Coretemp was reading the individual core temps so it was correct thank you for clearing that up for me.

My CPU is not overclocked yet but it runs at 60-70*'s when stressed (Gaming with everything up high/ultra) i guess i will have to look in to water cooling or a new CPU since when i dropped my CPU the temps started going up. unsure if it just dislodged the thermal paste within the CPU casing.