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So HWMonitor says my AMD A10-6700 is running at 90 degrees C (I'm using a gtx 960 instead of integrated graphics) and I realized this could be inaccurate so I tried AMD overdrive but I'm really sure what thermal margin is or what I should be at. My thermal margin is around 30 C under load and I'd like to know if that's safe. Thanks for reading. Oh and I'm also using the stock cooler.
 
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Thermal margin is "degrees until throttling". 70 is the highest number OD will output, meaning 70 degrees until we have a problem.

So, you want a higher number. A CPU will be throttled when it's at 0 thermal margin, but it may start when it drops below 10.

If you're looking at 30 under load (and a heavy load, hopefully) then you have nothing to be worried about. AMDOD has problems with accurately recording idle, but it does a good job at load.
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Thermal margin is "degrees until throttling". 70 is the highest number OD will output, meaning 70 degrees until we have a problem.

So, you want a higher number. A CPU will be throttled when it's at 0 thermal margin, but it may start when it drops below 10.

If you're looking at 30 under load (and a heavy load, hopefully) then you have nothing to be worried about. AMDOD has problems with accurately recording idle, but it does a good job at load.
 
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Okay thanks.
 
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