BIOS utility, HWmonitor, and Core Temp give completely different temp readings

jamendxman3 · Jul 6, 2014

I have a newly built rig with the following specs:

APU: AMD A10- 7850K with Radeon R7 Series Graphics
Motherboard: MSI A88X-G43
RAM: 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 1800MHz
Graphics: AMD APU Radeon R7 7850K

I have been planning to overclock, but I am worried about frying my CPU. I have the MSI motherboard utility called Command Center, and during a CPU full load, I get a reading of 45C - 50C, but on HW Monitor, it shows speed of up to 76C, and in Core Temp, it shows 26C, all during full load, I have a Cooler Master hyper 212 Evo, which is supposedly the best fan out there. Also my fans are not kicking in, because my mobo utility says a low temp. Here is a screenshot of my temps:http://i1285.photobucket.com/albums/a586/jamendx3/Untitled_zps4ba94e9d.png

If anyone could tell me which one of those temps is accurate, I have a very good CPU fan, and want to know if overclocking is still an option

Crushader · Jul 6, 2014

I'm on i5 4690K not overclocking, it was at 40-50 celsius constantly at idle and normal operations without gaming. That was with stock heatsink, I switched to Noctua NH-U12P SE2 and now the temp is circling about 25-30 celsius with normal operations. And hits around 50 celcius while gaming. And I'm using Ultra Low Noise adapter on the Noctua to slow down the RPM to reduce noise, it can cool the CPU down a couple more degree if I remove the adapter.

clutchc · Jul 6, 2014

I've found that HWmonitor is sometinmes inaccurate. And BIOS temps will always be higher due to Cool and Quiet (and other power saving pgms) not being in effect while in BIOS. For OC'ing an AMD processor post K10s, your best solution is to use AMD Overdrive. The new version: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4645-amd-overdrive.html

Go by the thermal margin instead of individual core temp: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2122665/understanding-temperature-amd-cpus-apus.html

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