Mysteriously high temps on Athlon 860K

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Nemesis-7

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Ok, So i just built my new pc. And my cpu temps are crazy hot

The Build

CPU: Athlon 860K
CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo
Thermal Paste: Thermene Graphene ( small dot, spread with cpu cooler pressure )
Motherboard: Asus A88X PRO FM2+
Power Supply: Evga 600B 600W
Memory: F3-2400C10D-8GZH 2 x 4GB 2400MHZ ( currently clocked at 1333 )
SSD: Samsung 850 Evo
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro

Bios is latest version
All drivers up to date.
Have re seated power connectors and cpu/cpu cooler several times
Fan speed is maximum

HW Monitor Pro Screen shot

http://postimg.org/image/j4qy2iout/

I was just going to try a different power supply to see if that's the issue.

Is it possible my motherboard or CPU is defective?


 
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Reset the motherboard's BIOS to defaults; make sure it is not overvolting your APU. Make sure your current BIOS version properly supports that APU, if not you'll need to update it.
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I set it to defaults, and have upgraded my bios to the latest version which supports my APU. The version it says it needs is 1301, AMD recommended the 1703 which supports the 860k and add some stability improvements.
 
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Sooooo reading around I found out HW monitor is not a good program to use for APU's. And that you should solely use AMD overdrive utility. Although it doesn't tell me my temperature, it just gives me a "thermal margin" which is how many degrees Is between my current temp and the limit for my APU. In my case I'm 70 degree Celsius away from my max temp.

Do I have that right?
 
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