AMD A10 CPU and CPU Cooler

tds777

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Trying to decide if I really need more than the stock CPU Cooler on my computer. And I really do not have a whole lot of height in the HP ENVY case around 140mm.
AMD OverDrive shows I never really get hot, the Thermal Margin stays in the 70 - 45 range and it is a indicator of how far below you are at below maximum temperature range.
But Speecy, HWinFO64 run between 83C-38C and from what I've read in other post you can no longer get a accurate AMD temperatures with the other CPU monitors on the newer AMD systems with W/8.1 and the newer AMD hardware and sensors.

HP ENVY 700-200z CTO
Operating System Windows 8.1 64-bit
CPU AMD A10-5800K 127 °F
Trinity 32nm Technology

RAM 7.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-12-28)

Motherboard MSI 2AE0 (P0) 83 °F

Graphics
SMB2330 (1920x1080@60Hz)
768MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7660D (HP)

Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM 003-1CH162 SATA Disk Device (SATA)81°F

Optical Drives
hp DVD-RAM SW830

Audio
IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
 
Solution
No problem. You should be getting a maximum of 74 degrees C on the APU, as it says on the official AMD website: http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopAPUDetail.aspx?id=44&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&

tds777

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Thanks for the answer, but what I really want to know is if the AMD Overdrive can be trusted for accuracy for Thermal Protection. It never shows that I'm really close to maximum temperature and I'm not using my computer for gaming only business purposes, web surfing, watching videos, photo-editing and using MS Office Enterprise.