Hey so I built myself a PC for the first time and I am pretty worried about the temps HWMonitor is showing for my AMD Athlon X4 750K processor. I ran a game (Euro Truck Simulator 2 on ultra) for about 20 minutes and in the end my highest temperature was 80 degrees Celsius. This was just a spike and temperatures were around 62-70 degrees for the most part and edging into the early 70's at some points (Idling I get between 41 and ~51). I understand this is not safe temperature wise, but I'm not sure what to do. When I built the PC I didn't remove any plastic from the bottom of the stock cooler (I don't believe I looked closely enough to check, no tutorials told me to) or put any extra thermal paste on due to expecting the cooler to have some. I have just tried to remove the cooler to have a look and I can unlatch it and twist it about, it doesn't seem willing to come off (motherboard is also bending from me pulling). So I do not know what to do at all. My Graphics card's temperature is supposedly fine at a peak of 69 degrees Celsius. I'm new to all this and am completely confused. I've read that Trinity processors don't give accurate readings?
I'll list my build here in case it helps:
AMD Athlon X4 750K
MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 motherboard
Corsair vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 (By the way, the RAM seems to run at 1333Mhz instead of 1600Mhz for some reason)
XFX HD 7870 Dual dissipation 1Ghz clock edition
Western Digital Black 1TB HDD
Corsair CX500M
BitFenix Shinobi Windowed edition
Some sort of TP-Link Wi-Fi adapter
And Windows 8
I'll list my build here in case it helps:
AMD Athlon X4 750K
MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 motherboard
Corsair vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 (By the way, the RAM seems to run at 1333Mhz instead of 1600Mhz for some reason)
XFX HD 7870 Dual dissipation 1Ghz clock edition
Western Digital Black 1TB HDD
Corsair CX500M
BitFenix Shinobi Windowed edition
Some sort of TP-Link Wi-Fi adapter
And Windows 8