PC temps

Marff · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:17

I built my mother a pc a few weeks back and using Hwmonitor the temps never go above 25 degrees during heavy usage (1080p gaming). Is this normal? Im starting to think hwmonitor isnt very accurate... The case curently has 1x 120mm exhaust fan 1x 100mm induction (right word?) fan and this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-028-CM&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395 cpu cooler.

I cant post the temps atm as im on my pc but will post them tomorrow. Are there any other programs i could use to check the temps? (AMD Cpu )

Mayfair · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:23

Real Temp?

Though i use version 3.40 becouse 3.60 doesnt pickup my GPU / GPU Temps for some reason.

hybrid572 · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:26

Do you live in the north pole?

If not, yeah, hwm's borked.

Merlin5 · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:37

Realtemp only works with intel chips.

Marff · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:43

Mayfair said:
Real Temp?

Though i use version 3.40 becouse 3.60 doesnt pickup my GPU / GPU Temps for some reason.

Merlin5 said:
Realtemp only works with intel chips.

hybrid572 said:
Do you live in the north pole?

If not, yeah, hwm's borked.

Erm well south east england soo not far

..
So yea, any other temp programs you'd recommend?

Sycho · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:49

HWmonitor should be just as accurate as Real Temp.

Try running an Intel Burntest on Maximum, one run with HWmonitor open see if it budges then.

[TW]Sponge · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:54

HWM blackbox, never a degree out

use that and post temps.

Merlin5 · 15 Oct 2010 at 01:55

Is the 25c your cpu or core temp? My cpu temp is currently 36c and core temp is 19c. The sensor on my chip (also amd) is obviously not working properly and I offset it by adding about 20c to the 19c making it 39c. You can try core temp
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and see what that comes up with.

Marff · 15 Oct 2010 at 02:00

Sycho said:
HWmonitor should be just as accurate as Real Temp.

Try running an Intel Burntest on Maximum, one run with HWmonitor open see if it budges then.

sponge999 said:
HWM blackbox, never a degree out use that and post temps.

Will give both of these a go tomorrow after college and will post results.

Merlin5 said:
Is the 25c your cpu or core temp? My cpu temp is currently 36c and core temp is 19c. The sensor on my chip (also amd) is obviously not working properly and I offset it by adding about 20c to the 19c making it 39c. You can try core temp
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and see what that comes up with.

Erm well HWmonitor shows each core so its all 3 cores individual temps. I'll also run that program and see what it says.

Cheers for all the replies so far.

[TW]Sponge · 15 Oct 2010 at 02:25

Blackbox will show the temps for each core and its usage. Also good for gpu and chassis temps.

Marff · 15 Oct 2010 at 17:07

Intel Burn test was run on maximum and the temps didn't go above 45 degrees.

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Marff · 15 Oct 2010 at 23:33

I was expecting the temps to have gone higher imo but they didnt... Should i worry about the temps?

Sayso · 15 Oct 2010 at 23:50

what cpu?
what clock?

45C under stress seems about right, AMD run a lot cooler than Intel (probably because they arnt doing as much ;P)

Ive got a 4GHx 6 core which under stress doesn't go above 50C!

With HWmonitor it isnt the core temp you should be looking at its one of these (see pic)

Essexraptor · 16 Oct 2010 at 00:29

sponge999 said:
HWM blackbox, never a degree out use that and post temps.

Thanks for the heads up on this one... looks like a viable option to HWMonitor.. I'll give it a whirl 2morrow