MSI Afterburning being inaccurate, and Farcry 3 gets my graphics card at 100c "apparently"

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Everytime I play a game with Msi Afterburner's on-screen display, the on-screen display is completely different to the window on the desktop screen. For example, when I was playing Farcry 3 it said my graphics card was a nice temp of 59c, but it turned out it was 100c according to the desktop.
After quickly closing Farcry 3, I checked the back of the graphics card's ventilation at the back of the pc and felt only a slight bit of warmth (a bit like the warmth you get when you close your hands up and breathe into them.) I've only got this PC 2 months ago and I've searched high and low in the case looking for dust, there's none what so ever anywhere, not even in the fans. Also, I haven't overclocked my graphics card at all, and have the fan speed at 63% (74 is the maximum). I'm trying to find a way to get a higher fan speed than 74.
 
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If you're not experiencing the 'Display Driver has Stopped Responding and Has Recovered' Windows error, accompanied by the application you're running crashing, or you aren't experiencing your monitor suddenly switching off / going into standby, or you aren't experiencing Blue Screens then it is surely evident that the 100°c reading from MSI Afterburner is inaccurate.

You're GPU is clearly running at ~60°c, as you've stated. Both games you describe aren't known as being particularly GPU-intensive so that's a very believable temperature to be seeing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCbKOuq8N0

That's a quick tutorial on how to use MSI Afterburner, in case there's an incorrect configuration setting.
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Would help if you could post what graphics card you are using....Differences in temp measurement is an issue of two things. 1. Either you need to reinstall and clean out registries of MSI afterburner as some files are corrupting the program to effectively read measurements, 2. Maybe you need to update the bios of the graphics card. My XFX 6870 used to give wrong clock settings in AMD catalyst, but once gpu bios is updated everything reads as it should.

There are two alternative programs you can try if reinstalling MSI afterburner gives you the problem.
1. ASUS GPU Tweak 2.5.4 ver.
2. Speedfan --> this program gives you temp of mobo, cpu, fan speed/rpm, gpu

But if you want on-screen display, then afterburner is the only OC software that provides that.

I use MSI afterburner on my Asus R9 270, but never had any issues you were talking about. So I am sure its a software corruption on your end. Maybe you are running multiple graphics monitoring software or other things and causing issues.
 
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Graphic card bios is not related to Nvidia because it comes straight from the manufacturer. Check your manufacturer website.
 
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GPU-Z will provide a desktop window with various Graphics Card information.

MSI Afterburner can show temperatures in an On Screen Display during gaming.
 
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Yeah well this is the thing: MSI Afterburner's on-screen display, and desktop window have completely different temperature readings-one being 50c and the other being 100c in Farcry 3. With GPU-Z's window on the desktop, it reads the same as MSI Afterburner's on-screen display. I was playing Garry's Mod, and GPU-Z and MSI Afterburner on-screen display had the same temperature reading which was 38c. The same thing happens in The Forest, GPU-Z says the temp is 50c, and MSI Afterburner's on-screen display says the temp is 50c, but MSI Afterburner on the desktop window says 100c instead of 50c like what GPU-Z and the on-screen display are reading. Basically, what my question is, is which temp do I believe? All I want to do is play these two games without having to worry about temps all the time.
 
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If you're not experiencing the 'Display Driver has Stopped Responding and Has Recovered' Windows error, accompanied by the application you're running crashing, or you aren't experiencing your monitor suddenly switching off / going into standby, or you aren't experiencing Blue Screens then it is surely evident that the 100°c reading from MSI Afterburner is inaccurate.

You're GPU is clearly running at ~60°c, as you've stated. Both games you describe aren't known as being particularly GPU-intensive so that's a very believable temperature to be seeing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCbKOuq8N0

That's a quick tutorial on how to use MSI Afterburner, in case there's an incorrect configuration setting.
 
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I still think the best solution is for you to uninstall MSI afterburner and get rid of all registry and temp files by using CC cleaner. Then reinstall the latest version which is 3.01 or the beta 3.33. Also there is one possibility that no one has mentioned yet which will have inaccurate readings.

This has to something to do with the bundled monitoring program that it comes with which is RivaTuner. Rivatuner sometimes do not display accurate clock settings for me even when I overclock. To solve that problem, you simply just need to exit RivaTuner and start it up again. Also get the latest RivaTuner which comes with 3.01 v of MSI afterburner.

 
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Thankyou so much, the two of you! I will get back as soon as possible once i've tried using CCleaner. If that doesn't work, then i'm just going to have to consider that MSI Afterburner is just incorrect.
 
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Sadly, I couldn't get MSI Afterburner desktop window to work, but the graphics card is always running cool at the moment and seems pretty good. I'm sure that if I played at 100c for 2 hours like I did in The Forest, my graphics card would just be destroyed. Thanks for the help.
 
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