So I have a Kuma 7750 on a ASRock 780 FullHD board with a small Coolermaster heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103041 and I have the wierdest heat readings.
My CPU is overclocked to 3.1ghz @1.31v, which according to Outervision's PSU calculator puts it's TDP at 131w, high, I know, but not crazy high.
I get the wierdest temperature readings however, Speedfan reports my CPU temperature as around 58*C idle and 62-64 under medium loads like WoW (1 core @ 95% other at 50%) but it reports my core temperatures in the high 30s at idle, going up to the high 40s under load, and these temperatures are consistant with what AoD reports for the cores.
Is it even possible for the CPU temperature to be higher than the core temp? I thought the cores were supposed to be the big heat generating bits of a processor. Is one of my thermal diodes messed up? if not, what's generating all that heat? the L3? If I know the CPU Diode is reporting 20* too high, then I can deal with it by just programming the motherboard to keep the fan on low until it hits what it thinks is 65*c, and just paying attention to my core temps, but the uncertanty of this worries me.
Any and all help would be appricieated. (and yes, I know it's a crappy processor, but it was a $60 processor, with a $25 off newegg combo deal with a corsair PSU when I bought it. )
My CPU is overclocked to 3.1ghz @1.31v, which according to Outervision's PSU calculator puts it's TDP at 131w, high, I know, but not crazy high.
I get the wierdest temperature readings however, Speedfan reports my CPU temperature as around 58*C idle and 62-64 under medium loads like WoW (1 core @ 95% other at 50%) but it reports my core temperatures in the high 30s at idle, going up to the high 40s under load, and these temperatures are consistant with what AoD reports for the cores.
Is it even possible for the CPU temperature to be higher than the core temp? I thought the cores were supposed to be the big heat generating bits of a processor. Is one of my thermal diodes messed up? if not, what's generating all that heat? the L3? If I know the CPU Diode is reporting 20* too high, then I can deal with it by just programming the motherboard to keep the fan on low until it hits what it thinks is 65*c, and just paying attention to my core temps, but the uncertanty of this worries me.
Any and all help would be appricieated. (and yes, I know it's a crappy processor, but it was a $60 processor, with a $25 off newegg combo deal with a corsair PSU when I bought it. )