Temperature Readings Broken!?

[CloudySky]

At idle with nothing running, the CPU averages out to be around 12-19 °C

The CPU is an 8320 at stock-clocked 3.5 GHz with an H105.

 

Too good to be true or just broken?

 

[Enderman]

Yup you got another faulty AMD temp sensor.

[CloudySky]

Yup you got another faulty AMD temp sensor.

Any way to read the temperatures?

 

What do you mean I got "another" faulty AMD temp sensor?

Its my only one 

[QueenDemetria]

Any way to read the temperatures?

 

What do you mean I got "another" faulty AMD temp sensor?

Its my only one 

You could use a physical temperature probe(and attach it to your heatsink).

 

The AMD FX line is known for having temperature sensors that have false readings. The first FX 6100 I had read just fine, but the one I am using now is of by 20-30 degrees. My FX 8320 is off by 50 degrees lol.

[Enderman]

Any way to read the temperatures?

 

What do you mean I got "another" faulty AMD temp sensor?

Its my only one 

You can tell the CPU temp pretty closely from "socket temp" which is a temp sensor on your motherboard, right under the CPU socket. It usually is about 5-10 degrees C below the core temp. I think HW monitor or aida64 shows the motherboard socket temp.

 

By "another" I mean it is a pretty common occurrence for AMD CPUs to have a broken temp sensor. For comparison, I have never seen a single post about false temp reading on an intel CPU for all my time on this forum, while I have seen at least 5 topics about AMD CPUs having this issue. Searching for it on google also returns several thousand results of others having the same problem.

 

The CPU still will work fine though, just be very careful when overclocking.

[Altecice]

Yup you got another faulty AMD temp sensor.

 

 

You could use a physical temperature probe(and attach it to your heatsink).

 

The AMD FX line is known for having temperature sensors that have false readings. The first FX 6100 I had read just fine, but the one I am using now is of by 20-30 degrees. My FX 8320 is off by 50 degrees lol.

 

 

There are no physical temp sensors on FX CPU's, AMD dumped using physical sensors awhile ago in favour of an algorithm that calculates temps based on some voltages and fluctuations. It fails abit when reading low temps but it works when it counts

[Enderman]

There are no physical temp sensors on FX CPU's, AMD dumped using physical sensors awhile ago in favour of an algorithm that calculates temps based on some voltages and fluctuations. It fails abit when reading low temps but it works when it counts

Yes but tons of people have that algorithm screw up giving false temps even when they should be correct.

[nivra552]

At idle with nothing running, the CPU averages out to be around 12-19 °C

The CPU is an 8320 at stock-clocked 3.5 GHz with an H105.

Too good to be true or just broken?

Try going to the bios

[Morpheus]

I read somewhere that below a certain temperature, the readings on AMD cpus are usually off (I think it was  under  30C or under 40C). If at load it goes to around 50-60, there's notthing wrong with the sensor or whatever.

 

edit: my 8320 used to go to 15C on a hyper 212 but when I'd actually use it, it'd stay around 55C which is the right temp