Inaccurate CPU Temp Readings

[JustHunterM8]

So recently i thought i had problems with my CPU so ive cleaned out my system and re-applied the thermal paste since i thought i had really high temps at idle. After i did all of this though my CPU temps, or at least what HWMonitor showed me, was that it was still 60 C on idle. And then i realized there was a different reading for CPU temps provided by the motherboard.

Does anyone know which one i should be paying attention to and what the other one means, Thx in advance.

[da na]

Usually the board's reading is more accurate. Different programs calculate that in different ways. Your motherboard is probably showing the highest temperature of all of the cores, and HWmonitor is probably showing either the lowest or the average temp. If you pull up the board's reading, HWmonitor, Speccy, and CPU-z next to each other they would all be a bit different. Safe to say the average temp is prolly in the 50s.

[JustHunterM8]

1 minute ago, Mel0nMan said:

Usually the board's reading is more accurate. Different programs calculate that in different ways. Your motherboard is probably showing the highest temperature of all of the cores, and HWmonitor is probably showing either the lowest or the average temp. If you pull up the board's reading, HWmonitor, Speccy, and CPU-z next to each other they would all be a bit different. Safe to say the average temp is prolly in the 50s.

Just for reference the one on top is the boards readings. Ill try to install the other two and put them side by side just to make sure

[-rascal-]

14 minutes ago, JustHunterM8 said:

Just for reference the one on top is the boards readings. Ill try to install the other two and put them side by side just to make sure

 

Use HWiNFO rather than HWMonitor.

And AMD's own software, Ryzen Master, for reference...if you want.

 

CPU-Z doesn't read temperature...from memory.

It only reads CPU frequency, memory frequency, motherboard info, etc.

[da na]

15 minutes ago, JustHunterM8 said:

Just for reference the one on top is the boards readings. Ill try to install the other two and put them side by side just to make sure

Well if you mean the one that says 45 that is the temp of the controller chip of the motherboard and isn’t associated with the cpu. I thought you meant that the motherboard bios gave you a different temp reading 

[JustHunterM8]

53 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Well if you mean the one that says 45 that is the temp of the controller chip of the motherboard and isn’t associated with the cpu. I thought you meant that the motherboard bios gave you a different temp reading 

yea ik but i thought that it would be pretty close in temperature no?

 

54 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

 

Use HWiNFO rather than HWMonitor.

And AMD's own software, Ryzen Master, for reference...if you want.

 

CPU-Z doesn't read temperature...from memory.

It only reads CPU frequency, memory frequency, motherboard info, etc.

i just checked on ryzen master and this puts me at ease a little, its consistently 5-10 degrees cooler than in HWMonitor, ill try check out HWinfo

 

[da na]

6 hours ago, JustHunterM8 said:

yea ik but i thought that it would be pretty close in temperature no?

Think about how your cpu and gpu are probably different temperatures too. Different parts produce different amounts of heat.