Overclocking Temp software question

[scotty365]

It has been many a long year since I did any overclocking but I got a 1150 i5 CPU and a GA Z87X UD3H mobo but I have a problem with getting correct temps. Most software I have tried is way off in temp compared to the Bios figures and I'm a little bothered about stress testing until I can confirm my temps are correct. Speed fan is utterly confusing as the temps don't represent what they are supposed to whatsoever.
Not sure if this is a Haswell issue, things have moved along a lot since I last did anything like this.

Can anyone point me to a guide or software that is suitable?

Regards
Scotty

 

[scotty365]

Try hwmonitor?

Yeah, the voltages are a mile out - like 7v for 12v and -6v for 3.3v - it's all wrong.
The temps I can't be sure if i have a cooler problem as they are a mile out too - I just don't get it - I need a program to see the state of the CPU to see if it throttling but the fan only raises a little compared to what it can do so I don't know if thats problem either! - I could do with a program to control the fan so I see whats going on

Regards
scotty

 

[scotty365]

What does gigabytes own easytune software say?

I can get it to work, it just crashes - first thing thats failed to do that

Im on F3 bois - maybe I need to update that but I don't know if that will be a problem if the board is defective and I need an RMA

 

[scotty365]

It seems that real temp is not for Haswell from what I've read, also it has the same temps as HWmonitor so maybe that says something. Also it is not throttling in the real temp sensor test with prime95 and there are no errors. It just seems that the calibration is wrong.

Just one other thing - when I'm in the bios the CPU runs at full 3.8 GHz and the fan spins up to cool it - I'm getting temps of around 45c is that normal?

If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it - maybe I just need a temp software that can be calibrated? or a bios update? I have update the chip set to the latest.

Regards
Scotty

 

[scotty365]

OCCT reports temps accurately for me. However, I have the same voltage issue that you mentioned above, so I use AIDA for that. AIDA and OCCT both report the same temps.

Yeah I found that AIDA is fine but I also got EasyTune working and thats ok too. Easytune requires AppCenter to be installed first or it won't work.

The whole idea was to check the the CPU cooler was seated properly and infact it wasn't! so it was worth being prudent until I knew everything was working ok. The problem was a small piece of clear plastic that was trapped between base of cooler and CPU (mingling in with TIM), I just felt it 'in mi wawters' that something wasn't right.

Thanks for the help everyone.

Regards
Scotty