AMD Athlon X4 860K overheating or bad heat sensor?

Daniel2960

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I've been having some strange results with my new processor.. The processor is a AMD Athlon X4 860K @3700ghz with the stock heatsink (currently have another one order... The original I ordered didn't fit Into case). I'm using HWMonitor currently to monitor Temps... I've seen a lot of issues posted about with faulty sensors so I am assuming that is the problem but I thought I would address the issue here regardless. I will post a picture of hw monitor and AMD Overdrive so you can see the thermal margin as everybody talks about.. I did the math and the thermal margin is saying my cpu cores could go up to 119°c.. Anyways.. I have heard you can just look at the tmpin0 and add ~ 10°c to get your core temp.. But this doesn't seem very reliable... it idles around 45°c in bios.. The other thing is.. I remember how my core Temps changed on my last AMD and it would go up consistently (could be quickly..) but not jump around like they do with this cpu this cpu could literally go from 60 to 90 within 10 or 15 seconds.. That being said.. I'm pretty confused.. And wonder if I should try another monitoring software that is tried and true on this unit or just go by the idling temperatures or go ahead and rma the processor.

(Picture of HWMonitor AMD Overdrive)

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(Budget build with left over GPU)
AMD Athlon X4 860K
Asus micro ATX A68HM-K
XFX Radeon R9 270x
Kingston HyperX FURY 8GB 1866MHz DDR3
EVGA 500 W1 80+, 500W
PNY 240GB CS1111 SSD
Seagate 2TB 7200rpm HDD
 

Daniel2960

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Hey, thank you for your response. I didn't realise the email I signed up with was one I was no longer signed into so sorry for the delay.. I have been using Asus ai 3 and core temp... I get similar idle in ai3 and bios ~ 44 with stock heatsink... On core temp it will sometimes go down to 0° for some unknown reason..? But the load Temps are the same ~ 62 and much quicker than Asus ai 3 (HWMonitor package temp is still ridiculous for some reason.. I suppose it's the calculations for thermal margin.. Not sure). A few thermal cycles of heating and cooling have helped temperatures to drop from very close to 70 to slightly lower around 62 or so under load. I did order a scythe scbsk 2100 big shuriken Rev b for my case and also got a noctua nf-f12 for the heatsink fan to move more air and create more static pressure (as I hope to overclock to ~4.2ghz at a very stable temp) .. But the computer has been stable gaming and on prime 95 for over a half hour maxing a out 64. So I guess I have it worked out at this point.