Cpu Temp Showing 127c....

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Tim Still

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Ive been doing some research, and i figure the sensor on the cpu is broken. It is reading 127c and i know that cannot be possibly right. It stays at 127c and then will go down to 55c for a couple seconds and then right back to 127c (as you can see in the graph). The fan also fluctuates like this and it is VERY annoying.

I have felt my heatsink and it isnt hot to the touch..

What do you think is the problem here?

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Solution
What gets me stumped is that that phenom ii has a 90°C shutdown and the Silicon the chip is made from is rated at only 97°C. If in fact the cpu is reaching over this limit, it should have shutdown immediately to prevent damage, or, the cpu has already broached the 97° Silicon limit and so basically is fried, which would explain the 127°C reading.

Unscrew just the fan, clean out the dust from the heatsink, put the fan back on and pray you haven't cooked the cpu. If temp doesn't change drastically, as in you should be seeing idle temps @40ish, load temps 50ish, then RMA the cpu or buy a new one, because the one you have now is cooked.


I'm not familiar with that heatsink fan. It almost looks like it is molded to a plastic shroud on the heatsink itself. Are there clips on the fan base or screws in the corner holes?
 
Could you just look at all of the cores temperature? like if one of the core teperature sensor is dead and its the main sensor, could you just look at the other cores and get a ish answer of what the cpu temp is?