CPU, PCH, and Motherboard temps

[Vekkao]

So I've had my computer for a bit now, I put it together myself as my first build and I've just been monitoring all of the temperatures occasionally still to make sure everything is working as it should. I don't have a total idea though as to what the temperatures of my things should be though, as it seems wherever I look someone says something different. I have an i5 4690k and an Asus Z97-a 3.1USB Motherboard. While I don't monitor the temperatures every single second, especially while I'm actually playing games, the temperatures never seem to go very high for the CPU. As an example, running a game like Skyrim along with 200+ mods the temperature doesn't actually seem to go up, I don't think I've ever seen it pass the 50c mark when I'm doing anything, the highest I've seen is high 40's with my fans on just medium speed, though I don't know how to properly monitor it aside from looking back and forth at the program I use to view such things, which is just what by default came with my computer. However the PCH stays around 60, some said around 80 is dangerous, and 90 is critical, but I've always seen it stay in that range, only going 1c or 2c higher. My motherboard always seems to be about the same too, at around 37c average.

So apologies for the wall of text, but are these temperatures acceptable? Is there another way I should be monitoring these temps? I'm using AI Suite 3.

So to add to, I downloaded a separate monitoring program to check my temps and my CPU temps did go over 50, though has yet to jump over 60 even once at all. As the average weather temperature here is 100, I'm kind of surprised it isn't higher.

 

[CiB0rG]

There's a lot of software you can use to monitor, I personally use HWMonitor Pro, but it's paid. I just downloaded HWinfo, because I've been playing around with my CPU recently and I'm looking for something to give me average temperature for a certain interval.
Your temperatures are all good, and if you're not planning to overclock anything, you don't really need to be monitoring them a lot. If you're willing to push that K CPU a bit though, that's a completely different thing.

 

[Vekkao]

Yeah I downloaded another one and used it, just some random free one to actually keep track of the temperatures properly so I can monitor it and go back and see the highs and lows. I don't really think I'm going to be overclocking anytime soon, on any part of it, it's too hot here as it is, I don't want to risk really running something too hot, on average it's been 90-100 degrees here, sometimes hotter, and it's pretty humid. If the temps got too much higher I'd be kind of worried. My highest temperature so far was 59, though the average seems to be more around 45, while the low is 36. Kind of hard to monitor still though since this is showing me each core individually. One thing I'm sort of worried about though, it seems like the temperatures go up and down a LOT for the CPU, but I don't really know if this is normal. Assuming it is? I can look at the program, then look back a few seconds later and the max temperature will be a few degrees higher, then go back down. Something under the category of my motherboard though, there's a thing listed as "Nuvoton NCT6791D," which I'm not entirely sure what it is as it's not my CPU, just something do with my motherboard I'm assuming, has 6 temperature listings, most of which are low but a couple are going over 100c regularly.

 

[CiB0rG]

Yeah I downloaded another one and used it, just some random free one to actually keep track of the temperatures properly so I can monitor it and go back and see the highs and lows. I don't really think I'm going to be overclocking anytime soon, on any part of it, it's too hot here as it is, I don't want to risk really running something too hot, on average it's been 90-100 degrees here, sometimes hotter, and it's pretty humid. If the temps got too much higher I'd be kind of worried. My highest temperature so far was 59, though the average seems to be more around 45, while the low is 36. Kind of hard to monitor still though since this is showing me each core individually.

It should have a "Package"/"CPU" temperature or both, as well as single core temperatures.

 

[Vekkao]

Yeah, I downloaded ANOTHER program and see more listings, including the package, max so far has been 51c since I downloaded it, the rest staying late 30's and mid 40's. Only thing I'm clueless on is the "Nuvoton NCT6791D" listing and what exactly it is. Worried about the max of around 125c though from it, it hasn't gone any higher at all, but it seems to be going up and down rapidly. Are these supposed to be like that? Are they the sensors?

 

[CiB0rG]

Yeah, I downloaded ANOTHER program and see more listings, including the package, max so far has been 51c since I downloaded it, the rest staying late 30's and mid 40's. Only thing I'm clueless on is the "Nuvoton NCT6791D" listing and what exactly it is. Worried about the max of around 125c though from it, it hasn't gone any higher at all, but it seems to be going up and down rapidly.

Probably something just not monitoring correctly, I wouldn't be worried about it.

 

[Vekkao]

Hmm alright, well thanks. Maybe someone can tell me exactly what it is but it seems like from what I've gathered you're probably right, some people were saying it was just false sensor readings or something like that but it's kind of a constant thing so I was just wondering.

 

[CiB0rG]

Hmm alright, well thanks. Maybe someone can tell me exactly what it is but it seems like from what I've gathered you're probably right, some people were saying it was just false sensor readings or something like that but it's kind of a constant thing so I was just wondering.

From what I've heard, a lot of monitoring software sometimes gets false readings, it just gets thing wrong. It took HWMonitor 2 weeks to finally recognise the correct GPU I was using and start to monitor it, instead of monitoring my integrated GPU. It's just weird stuff. 😀