Are these Northbridge Temperatures Safe?

Hello,

I'm running a AMD Phenom II X4 960T @ 4.2ghz. The CPU temps seem to be alright and haven't gone above 40c.

Here is a picture of HW Monitor: http://i.imgur.com/XSCnK.jpg

Now, under the motherboard temperatures tab there are 3 different readings.

TIMPIN0: Motherboard Temp
TIMPIN1: CPU Socket Temp
TIMPIN2: Northbridge Temp

My question is:

- Is TIMPIN2 a socket temperature reading? or is it the actual Northbridge Temperature?
- Reason I ask is because TIMPIN1 = Socket Temp (which means actual CPU core temps are approximately 9-10c cooler). Which would just be awesome.

I own the Gigabyte 970A-UD3 motherboard and it was able to unlock the 2 cores off of this CPU just fine. I thought it was only the core temps that got broken when unlocking and never knew TIMPIN2 was showing odd temperatures of 12c when cores are unlocked.

Good thing I caught this today... Was running Prime95 earlier to check for errors but, I saw TIMPIN2 temps rising and almost shat myself  

Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks.


EDIT: Woops, didn't see there were Intel and AMD specific sub-forums.
Should've posted this in Overclocking - AMD