AMD A10-7800 laptop running at 100 C?

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Hello!

I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite L50D-B from Futureshop running an AMD "K15" according to Speccy and HWMonitor, or an AMD A10-7800 according to the official specs.

However, upon installing HWMonitor, I noticed my "package" temperature was no less than 94 C on a consistent basis, and more often than not hits over 100 C. Is this simply a bad temperature reading? I've attempted to find drivers for it, I installed AMD Catalyst, etc.

Can someone help me resolve this? Should I simply send it back for a refund? I still have eight days left on my bill.
 
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AMD OverDrive may give you the appropriate *thermal margin* of your CPU

HWMonitor on occasion can get behind on newly released stuff and is likely unreliable in this instance.

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I see! I'll try installing it and let you know. However, both Speccy and HWMonitor gave the same readings. Is there a way to change that?
 
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My thermal margin is hovering around 18-23 degrees Celsius. What does this mean? I heard this is how much hotter my CPU can get before being above what it can handle.

What would the real temperature of my CPU be like right now?
 
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It means you have 18-23C of 'thermal headroom' before the cores may start to throttle (to reduce temps) -- that looks good and is typical.

The CPU cores and UNB are highly efficient and are not typically the main driver of your temps -- the big temp driver would be your GCN graphic cores which make up half the die.

I have no idea what the 'real' temp would be :)

 
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Thank you, that helps a lot! I wish I could find the real max operating temperature though. Oh well! It's all solved and fine. Thank you! :)
 
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