temp monitors read high for APU, but exhaust air is cool

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Ive recently built a custom pc, its using the latest A10 with a coolermaster tx3 air cooler, blasting air front to back and straight out the exhaust fan. On a heavy load, like a benchmark, the unit seems cool and the air flow feels cool to the touch, but I have Speccy and HWmonitor telling me the CPU is running at 83 degrees C. The APU isn't designed for that temp, and im a bit worried in case they are right, but holding out they are not reading it right for some reason.

EasyTune6 however reads 24 idle / 45 on load, which would be ideal.

I have no graphics card, just igpu doing all the work (side note, very impressed with the A10 graphics).

Any ideas on which monitor reads more accurately with an AMD APU?
 
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Try coretemp

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

You're probably right it isnt reading correctly but better be sure.

However if it is high temps check your cpu vcore isnt higher than recommended and do you have paste on? I am assuming you must have. Be sure the heatsink is seated properly too (if you still have problems).

I recently reseated a heatsink and cpu where heatsink wasnt seated properly and temps were through the roof. I just didnt click one of the pins down properly.
 
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Well this one is highly optimistic lol, I remember using this utility years ago. Its reading right now as I speak that all 4 cores are running at 5 degrees, touching the cpu cooler I could quite imagine that, but ive never heard of an air cooler being that effective lol. On load its reading 32 degrees. Thats a world apart from Speccy and HWmonitor.

Are APU's notorious for random readings?
 
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Cheers, but RealTemp say its designed for Intel chips only, so probs wont give a good reading for an AMD APU
 
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Thats quite a good read, spot on for my situation. I thought I was using overdrive, but the bit thats built into CCC. Ive downloaded Overdrive as the standalone unit and its got so much more detail.

This talk about temp margin, I had no idea. If I've understood it right, then I should be fine. Its reading 65 degrees margin on idle, with 35 degrees margin on heavy load. If this is true and we take 80 degrees as the known max for the A10 then, 80 - 35 means its load temp is 45 degrees, which is exactly what Easytune6 for my Gigabyte motherboard said it was.

Cheers

 
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