AMD cpu temp?

[Tobleh]

So today I learned something that pretty much makes me feel like an idiot if it's true.

In the picture below I have the package temp in HWMonitor circled in red, for the past year I'd assumed this was my cpu temp reading. It shoots up past 90 and into the hundreds sometimes when I run anything remotely cpu intensive. I tried re-seating my cooler in many different ways even changing the fan around and it still shot up like a rocket. I tried other programs like coretemp and speccy as well, and they all showed cpu temps getting up this high.
This morning though I learned about AMD Overdrive and was told it gave more accurate readings, so I installed it. From my understanding it records temperatures in a completely different way, it records by how far off you are from the rated max temp. I assumed it would immediately spike past the max when I booted up a game (GTAV), but it didn't. I was getting a margin of about 35c. You could imagine my astonishment. I immediately opened HWMonitor to double check and saw that the package temp was again in the 90's and rising. So I looked through each row and noticed that TMPIN1 (circled in yellow) was rising and falling in almost perfect conjunction with the thermal margins on AMD Overdrive. To test this theory further I installed prime95 and ran it for 10-15 minutes, I was always afraid to try a benchmark in the past because of the supposed high temps, but this ran without issue.

So to be extra sure I wanted to ask you guys, is TMPIN1 the correct core temperature? Is my cpu not actually cooking itself alive in my system?

 

[Hysterical]

I have almost the same cpu as you (A10-6700) my HWMonitor also says that is 100+ degrees celsius but that's really unlikely because my BIOS says it has a good temperature (40/50C). I read that there are some AMD APU's with weird sensors. So don't worry too much about it.

[DannyRyu]

Prime95 is bad btw.

[GloriousPain]

I remember reading somewhere alot of AMD cpus don't have actual temperature sensors amd simply uses math to try and calculate the temperature and well that math is fucked... Also Prime95 isn't something you want to use, it's basically a powervirus

[Tobleh]

looks like a dodgy sensor somewhere, if it was truly as hot as it says it is, you'd know about it

 

I have almost the same cpu as you (A10-6700) my HWMonitor also says that is 100+ degrees celsius but that's really unlikely because my BIOS says it has a good temperature (40/50C). I read that there are some AMD APU's with weird sensors. So don't worry too much about it.

 

Prime95 is bad btw.

 

I remember reading somewhere alot of AMD cpus don't have actual temperature sensors amd simply uses math to try and calculate the temperature and well that math is fucked... Also Prime95 isn't something you want to use, it's basically a powervirus

Alright sweet, kinda sucks to hear about the sensors, but it's good to know that my cpu is fine. 

Also dang prime95 is a virus? Well time to uninstall that and run malwarebytes.

[ManWithBeard1990]

Alright sweet, kinda sucks to hear about the sensors, but it's good to know that my cpu is fine. 

Also dang prime95 is a virus? Well time to uninstall that and run malwarebytes.

No, not like a real virus. It puts an unrealistic load on your CPU and in the case of some Intel chips (Haswell and newer), can cause damage due to excessively high CPU voltage and temperature.

[Tobleh]

No, not like a real virus. It puts an unrealistic load on your CPU and in the case of some Intel chips (Haswell and newer), can cause damage due to excessively high CPU voltage and temperature.

Oh alright I understand now. Thanks for the info, I went ahead deleted it. I'll get something like aida64 instead to run a longer stability test.

[GloriousPain]

Alright sweet, kinda sucks to hear about the sensors, but it's good to know that my cpu is fine. 

Also dang prime95 is a virus? Well time to uninstall that and run malwarebytes.

As man with beard said... not an actual virus just really really over stressful on your cpu  to where it can fry some chips especially Haswell and newer ones and in some bad cases it can even burn motherboards and start small fires... the term for which is a "Power Virus"

 

No, not like a real virus. It puts an unrealistic load on your CPU and in the case of some Intel chips (Haswell and newer), can cause damage due to excessively high CPU voltage and temperature.

[Nena Trinity]

Dude use AMD Overdrive to measure temps also P95 is a BAD idea!

 

13.4 away from max temp is good! (max is 68c I think so 13.4 - 68 = true temp)

[Tobleh]

Wow, Is 68 really the max temp?

[Nena Trinity]

Wow, Is 68 really the max temp?

AMD claims 68c but I think it should manage around 80c but I would keep it at what AMD claims!