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
(Picture of HWMonitor AMD Overdrive)
forum image hosting]http://[/url]
(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