Large temperature disparity between MSI Afterburner and CoreTemp

Yottacore

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Dec 6, 2014
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I'm trying to gauge the temperature of my cores and performance of my hardware using both CoreTemp and MSI afterburner. But for some reason there is a large disparity between my CPU core temperature measurements in both bits of software. Why is this and which is more accurate?

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