Are these temps right?

CrayonMuncher

CrayonMuncher

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I have a Athlon x3 445 revision bl-c3 using the stock cooler and stock thermal paste/pad with cool and quiet off and no oc and the idle temps are 15c to around 24c even when the fans are turned down amd under load (with the fans on 65%) the temps only hit around 38c

I have used HWmonitor and Speed fan to check temps and also checked the bios on startup which shows simalar temps to those idle temps mention above, this seems to cool to me, i'm not complaining, but i just wondered i thought they ran hotter than this

thanks.
 
It seems like a lot of AMD's CPUs have an inaccurate thermal sensor. Mine was off by about 8-9*c. Seeing as how your room is likely much warmer than 15*c then it's actually impossible for it to be colder than that on air. My method to figure out how much I was off by was to put my computer in sleep mode for a couple hours (Preferably overnight) and check my temps immediately after waking it up, see what the temperature is. It will likely be a degree or two above room temperature. Do the math and you have how much it's off by :)

I.e. Room temp=21*c CPU Temp upon wake= 12*c
21-12=9 meaning your idle temps are 9 degrees higher than they're reporting. Sorry if that was confusing :P
 
hello. i know how amd sensors seem to be off on all their chips, but i have found what will give the acurate cpu temp, not individual cores, which really is no big deal. download HW monitor run it, then look at the entry TMPIN0, this will be accurate. someone might want to post this as a solution for faulty amd sensors. hope this helped you and many others
 
Athlon II's run very cool, but not less than ambient on an air cooler :P

The CPU will probably be idling ~2c above ambient, so check what your ambient temp is and manually compensate in your head what your load temps are.
 
It seems like there have been a lot of threads lately about really low AMD CPU temps. Just to add my two cents - IIRC Speedfan can offset temps too, if you want to keep using it.
 
johnpeter said:
Hey guys, I have been working on overclocking my 1075t and the temps I am getting now with the stock cooler seem... well almost too good to be true. Right now its at 3.6001GHz with the FSB @240 and the vcore voltages @1.35v and I am running the Prime95 torture test that is designed to create the maximum amount of heat and power consumption. With the stock heatsink HWmoniter is saying that the core temps are @48C. That is a lot cooler than what I thought it should be for a 600MHz increase in core clock. My ambient temp right now is right around 68F so I guess that does help, but still is there a chance that it is really running hotter than that and that those temps are wrong? Maybe i am just being a little over cautious/ worried but that is a lot better than a lot of people I know with similar set ups.
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use HWmonitor.. thinking it was TMP1 or whatever the center was but different versions may vary. Keep it under 60c.
 
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