Core Temp says my CPU has reached a Max of 160 degree celsius. Why?

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I bought a new computer recently 2-3 weeks ago.
AMD 8350 CPU
corsair h100i CPU cooler
gtx 970 G1 GPU

I just noticed today when I was leaving core temp open, that the maximum temperature my CPU is reaching is 160 degree celsius. How is this possible? is it a bug in core temp or is my CPU going to die? Isn't there some sort of fail safe that would turn the CPU off if it reaches that limit. I think for the 8350 the limit is around 60-70 Degrees.

I'm pretty sure I put the cpu into the socket correctly but I'm a bit worried I made a mistake with the Corsair CPU Cooler, it went on fine but it may have moved ever so slightly when I put it on top of the CPU. I saw some guy put it on, on youtube with one hand. So I guess it should be fine.

At idle "Core Temp" says my cpu is anywhere from 10-19 degree. Unload, from memory, it's around 30 degrees.

So any Ideas about the 160 degrees?
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Alfrodo
Core temp does not measure AMD FX-8350 accurately. I had the same reaction when I tried using it. Don't worry! Use another program such as open hardware monitor:
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/
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Core temp does not measure AMD FX-8350 accurately. I had the same reaction when I tried using it. Don't worry! Use another program such as open hardware monitor:
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/
 
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You need an external removable hard drive with the system installed I use Acronis to clone the disk from raid to any build i did.

A memory check first, a disk scan for errors is the first things that i do, if you are in windows a "sfc /scannow /offbootdir=d:\ /offwindir=d:\windows" if some system files are damaged. A really good antivirus is needed and some reboots to update scan the system for viruses.

The external disk is also helping me defrag the disk much better.
 
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Thanks Alfrodo, I've downloaded the program and it seems to be a bit more accurate, although I haven't run into the same error again.

core_dumped, not sure I quite understood your post, sorry for the late reply though, I thought disk defraging is only useful after a HDD has had a lot of data on it and then had the data deleted. Not to sure about the memory check paragraph either.
 
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