Bizarre core temps in HWMonitor?

[SolidSonicTH]

Does this make any sense? The package temp is what I'd expect but why are the individual cores reporting near-freezing point? I've never seen a system report temps like this (typically the package temp and the core temps stay in relative close proximity to each other when I look at this utility on other systems).

 

It's a Core i5 6600K at stock speeds, delidded and liquid metal applied.

 

[skimmilk5]

Read the temperature units.

[SolidSonicTH]

Just now, kimsejin5 said:

Read the temperature units.

I'm not weirded out by the numbers (I know what numbers to expect from a CPU on average), I'm weirded out by the large temperature gap between the package and cores.

 

I clarified that in my original post.

[skimmilk5]

Short answer: don't worry about it.

Long answer: The "package" temperature is often reported from a thermistor on the substrate itself, whereas the core temperatures can be reported from either a thermistor in the core or based on the electrical resistance between some other set of contacts (depending on the CPU). I don't know exactly which method Intel uses. Regardless, this is probably the reason for the temperature delta between your package and your core. What kind of cooling are you using for your processor? What temperature is your ambient environment?

[SolidSonicTH]

Ambient is about ~79 degrees F (and I'm running the case with the side panel open at the moment; I just constructed the system).

 

Cooling is...>_>...an AMD FM2+ stock cooler zip tied to the motherboard with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste.

 

Just to be clear, the actual temperatures are fine and well within control (and they stayed relatively consistent through a PCMark run). I've just never seen such a large gulf between the reported temps of a package and individual cores before.

[skimmilk5]

It's possible that in the delidding process, you damaged your processor's die, causing it to report temperatures improperly, but it's hard to tell without some very specialized equipment that only AMD or Intel would have.

[nick name]

Have you tried HWiNFO yet?

[SolidSonicTH]

9 minutes ago, nick name said:

Have you tried HWiNFO yet?

Never used it before. I've always used HWMonitor to look at my system status.

[EL02]

hwinfo is more accurate

[Guest]

1 hour ago, SolidSonicTH said:

Ambient is about ~79 degrees F (and I'm running the case with the side panel open at the moment; I just constructed the system).

 

Cooling is...>_>...an AMD FM2+ stock cooler zip tied to the motherboard with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste.

 

Just to be clear, the actual temperatures are fine and well within control (and they stayed relatively consistent through a PCMark run). I've just never seen such a large gulf between the reported temps of a package and individual cores before.

Haha awesome.

 

Can you take a picture of the AMD heatsink zip tied to the motherard on top of that Intel 6600k

[SolidSonicTH]

24 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Haha awesome.

 

Can you take a picture of the AMD heatsink zip tied to the motherard on top of that Intel 6600k

This was when I was mounting it. I double-wrapped each side. I actually wanted to cross underneath the board to get the most secure fit but I wasn’t sure if the straps being right below the heat source was healthy.

 

This is something I've wanted to do ever since I saw this cooler (since I used an aftermarket cooler on the FM2+ CPU this originally shipped with). The bulky heat pipes and fin design completely stomps Intel's wimpy stock coolers.

 

[nick name]

Please try HWiNFO to see what it reports.

[SolidSonicTH]

Alright, but I need to hook things up again (I bought the wrong kind of SSD so I can't install Windows for the time being; I was running these tests off my benchmarking SSD).

[SolidSonicTH]

Alright, sorry it took me so long to get back to this.

 

This is what HWiNFO is telling me. I would say it looks more like what I'm expecting.

 

 

[Whiro]

15 minutes ago, SolidSonicTH said:

This is what HWiNFO is telling me. I would say it looks more like what I'm expecting.

Yup now this temps looks alright