Does HW Moniter even work?

[madscientist56]

I wanted to do some over clocking so I looked at my ambient temps with HW moniter to see how much headroom I had (btw im running a 6300 with an H60 on an as rock 990fx exttreme 3) and it said my cpu was running at 6 degrees.....

At first I thought wow our holy lord Gabe N must be smiling upon me or something because these temps are insane! but wait? how is that possible? the temperature in my room was around 23 degrees so how was my cpu even cooler than that? It didn't use any type of refrigerant so HW Moniter must be lying right?...

[DarrenP]

I wanted to do some over clocking so I looked at my ambient temps with HW moniter to see how much headroom I had (btw im running a 6300 with an H60 on an as rock 990fx exttreme 3) and it said my cpu was running at 6 degrees.....

At first I thought wow our holy lord Gabe N must be smiling upon me or something because these temps are insane! but wait? how is that possible? the temperature in my room was around 23 degrees so how was my cpu even cooler than that? It didn't use any type of refrigerant so HW Moniter must be lying right?...

Not necessarily hardware monitor that's not working. AMD CPU's are notorious for having bad temperature sensors. 

[Volbet]

AMD has been know to have faulty temperature sensores. You can try to use CoreTemp, just to make sure that the program isn't at fault.

[madscientist56]

AMD has been know to have faulty temperature sensores. You can try to use CoreTemp, just to make sure that the program isn't at fault.

Ummmmmmm

[Enderman]

bad cpu sensors

if other programs also give you the same temps you should not overclock at all because you have no idea how high your temps are getting

[Volbet]

Ummmmmmm

Hmm, never had that happen before. Well, don't try that then. 

 

Edit: It also happens with me. I have no idea why it's doing that now.

[helping]

Ummmmmmm

it has bundled software, you have to decline it.

if you're so convinced something is wrong with HWmonitor and Coretemp (nobody else has a problem with it) then download your BIOS software.

[madscientist56]

Hmm, never had that happen before. Well, don't try that then. 

 

Edit: It also happens with me. I have no idea why it's doing that now.

 

it has bundled software, you have to decline it.

if you're so convinced something is wrong with HWmonitor and Coretemp (nobody else has a problem with it) then download your BIOS software.

 

this works however 31 degrees still seems awfully cool...

[helping]

this works however 31 degrees still seems awfully cool...

AMD temperature sensors are more inaccurate the further the chip is away from 55c. When your chip is under load and not overheating, the temperature is accurate. Under unstable (too hot) load or idle it's completely wrong. BIOS software is better for that.

[CornOnJacob]

Ummmmmmm

I had your exact problem (both with the temp sensors and coretemp being "malicious"). When you get to CT's download page, click "More downloads..." and download the standalone version of the software. The stuff it normally is bundled with is malicious (allegedly) but it isn't.