Phenom x6 II thuban core temps

Combat squirrel · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:55

As title, there seems to be a lot of confusion around the net here, me included.

Iv got mine currently at 3.85ghz 1.4375volts in bios, goes to 1.45 under LYNX.

Asus PC probe is reading: 65c under load

CPUID HW reads CPU same, 65c, however its reading the 6 cores at 46c under load

CORE TEMP 0.99.8 reads the same as CPUID at around 46 for all cores under load. It also informs me my Ti.MAX is 90c

NOW WHATS GOING ON HERE, I know AMD aint accurate for temps but this is silly, apparently 62c is the limit on these chips and im not exactly thrashing it.

My cooling is a firmly bolted down silver arrow with 3x140mm fans in a HAFX case, so i know iv got good air flow.

Given my cooling tech im more inclined to believe the 46c load temp reading, the heatsink is very very warm but not like OMGZ im gonna get burnt.

Seriously guys, what knowledge do you have? I know this CPU can hit nearly 4.2 due to the previous owner but im not getting these temp readings here, its all over the shop, yet more software reads 46c load, would this be more likely ?

Combat squirrel · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:06

Anyone ? :s does anyone have similar ?

whipgeez · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:27

i think 62c is the safe limit, check the amd website

i don't think the core temps read correctly on the x6 amds, cpu temp is the one to use for them

perhaps you just crapped out on the silicon lottery

Combat squirrel · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:50

Previous owner of both board n CPU never got near :/ so not CPU it's a 1055t 95watt model

Hagar · 24 Jun 2011 at 23:47

My Thuban x6 1055T 125W is at 3.5GHz, 1.34V but I have a delta of core temperatures to CPU temp of only 10C, (cores 43C CPU 53C), this leads me to think that although your cooler is shifting air, it may not be exhausting fully from the case hence your CPU temperatures are 10C higher still. I use a TRUE 120mm with one fan at 1000rpm. Temps are from HWmonitor. I get up to 57-58C at 3.8GHz stock volts.

Combat squirrel · 25 Jun 2011 at 08:34

Its defo exhausting hot hot hot air leaves the back of the case via it's rear 140mm case fan (directly behind the 140mm CPU fan) and a lot via the above 200mm fan.

It's stable at these temps so i think 46c load is correct or am I wrong?

GoogalyMoogaly · 25 Jun 2011 at 13:08

What motherboard are you using? (Presumably an Asus?)

I can tell you this, I've got a 1055T (supposedly 95W). I run at 3.5GHz with a VCore of 1.4v.
I generally use CPUID Hardware Monitor for temps.
As far as I'm aware it's the CPU Temp you need to monitor not the core temp. In HW Monitor this shows on my Gigabyte motherboard as TMPIN1.
I recently installed Gigabyte's EasyTune6 software (which I've since uninstalled as it just seems like clutter, same reason I wont install Afterburner). Anyway, this software displays a CPU Temp and System temp. When compared to HW Monitor this corresponded with TMPIN1 (CPU) and TMPIN0 (System) and there were no readings that matched the Core temps.
So for me this confirmed (for me) that this is the value to monitor. As along with all the people (on these forums and other places) that say the CPU Temp is the one to monitor that the Gigabyte software also measured this value. It seems that the Asus software also does the same thing.

I believe the Core Temps are just generated values. I've noticed that if I run Prime95 on just 1 core all 6 core temps give pretty much the same reading, which would be unexpected if 1 core is at 100% load and the others are under 5%.

The other thing is that as far as I'm aware the TjMax for the 95W X6 cpus is 73ºC or something like that.