CPU Temperature reading innacurately

[TKovich]

Recently put together a new PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, ASUS PRIME X470-PRO MOBO, and GIGABYTE RTX 2080 gpu. Ive recently noticed that even instantly after startup Corsair LINK and SPECCY are showing idle CPU temps exceeding 90-100 C. I have a M.2 SSD as my boot drive so it only takes 30 seconds or so from turning on my computer to being logged in with these apps open, there is no way my CPU could reach these temperatures in that time. my CPU fan runs quiet too, which confuses me even more. And as a last note I have a few lights in my tower synced with the CPU temperature via iCUE, and based on the color shown its displaying temps between 20 and 40 C. I am confident it is a software issue but dont know where to start. Any information to help resolve this discrepancy will save me a lot of sleep so thank you in advance. 

 

I have also attached a screenshot of speccy and Corsair link to show my system spec and idle temperature readouts. Also worth mentioning that the screenshots were taken at the exact same moment so there is even a 10 C variance in the temperature readout at any given time

[Bitter]

Do different softwares also report the same temperature?

[TKovich]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Do different softwares also report the same temperature?

those two are the only i'm familiar with. do you have any suggestions of other programs I can check? my next step is to get into the BIOS to see whats its reporting

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, TKovich said:

those two are the only i'm familiar with. do you have any suggestions of other programs I can check? my next step is to get into the BIOS to see whats its reporting

 

You should try HWmonitor. It's pretty good in my opinion.

[TKovich]

2 minutes ago, Jacobtechtips? said:

You should try HWmonitor. It's pretty good in my opinion.

downloading now

[Stormseeker9]

3 minutes ago, Jacobtechtips? said:

You should try HWmonitor. It's pretty good in my opinion.

Yup agree!

 

also have a look at The temps in bios @TKovich

[TKovich]

Ok HWMonitor shows much more promising results. this is under load too

[Guest]

1 minute ago, TKovich said:

Ok HWMonitor shows much more promising results. this is under load too

That's way better! 

[TKovich]

Went into BIOS as a followup, showing similar results as HWMonitor. Wondering what could be causing the descrepancy.

 

(Sorry For Potato pic had to use my cell for this one)

[Guest]

1 hour ago, TKovich said:

Went into BIOS as a followup, showing similar results as HWMonitor. Wondering what could be causing the descrepancy.

 

(Sorry For Potato pic had to use my cell for this one)

I wonder what it could've been...it's showing the right readings now though so...YAY

[Xkillerpn]

i dont know whats your cooler, 1.47v is alot max recomended is 1.45v. lower taht voltage or will start to degrade.