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July 23, 2014 4:11:10 PM

So I'm playing around with an overclock I've got and I'm a little bit worried right now. HWMonitor is reporting package temps of up to 86 celsius at full load! However, it's also reporting a much lower "CPUTIN" temperature of around 50 celsius under the same stress...

Which of these values should I be paying attention to?

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July 23, 2014 4:20:05 PM

You go on package temp. Preferably from bios/uefi rather than 3rd party software.
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July 23, 2014 5:06:05 PM

Yep - Package Temp is coming from the on-die thermal probe on your processor. CPUTIN is most likely another sensor mounted directly to the motherboard somewhere nearby the CPU socket, and is going to read a much lower temperature than the actual core temp. The BIOS is probably going to be more accurate, but it's a bit hard to get readings from your BIOS while stress-testing, and HWMonitor is easily the most simple-to-use and reliable of all the third party system monitors that I've used.

On that note, 'yer Athlon looks to be getting a little warm there. Might be time to back down the OC or stack on some more cooling. ;) 
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July 24, 2014 3:44:53 AM

someguynamedmatt said:
Yep - Package Temp is coming from the on-die thermal probe on your processor. CPUTIN is most likely another sensor mounted directly to the motherboard somewhere nearby the CPU socket, and is going to read a much lower temperature than the actual core temp. The BIOS is probably going to be more accurate, but it's a bit hard to get readings from your BIOS while stress-testing, and HWMonitor is easily the most simple-to-use and reliable of all the third party system monitors that I've used.

On that note, 'yer Athlon looks to be getting a little warm there. Might be time to back down the OC or stack on some more cooling. ;) 


Well, it's around 25 celsius where I am right now, so that may be a bit of a problem for overclocking or even running my machine in general XD
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