I'm worried about temperature readings

[Milan_4]

Hello, I bough AMD Athlon X4 840 few months ago,is has fairly quiet stock fan.
I played some more demanding games , and decided to check for temperature. I used HWmonitor. And in CPU pocket temperature its showing quite big number, like 95+c.

http://snag.gy/BI6NX.jpg

I'm not sure what each temperature sensor stand for, but no part of computer should be that hot.
In bios its showing around 60c, but there's also a fact that CPU cools a lot when it restarts.

Should I do something about it, or just hope for a bad sensor readings?

 

[madmatt30]

You can't trust hwmonitor with a fm2+ setup.

Download and overdrive & usevits thermal margin reading
.

Generally it should show a margin of 30c+ at idle & a minimum of 10c under a heavy load

 

[Milan_4]

I don't understand your second line at all, I need to download something?

 

[lodders]

95C is impossible for AMD
If your CPU fan runs continuously at full speed (noisy) start worrying.
If your computer crashes, or runs unexpectedly slowly, worry some more
Until then, ignore it, and enjoy gaming

 

[madmatt30]

Yes you need to download amd overdrive.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/technologies-gaming/over-drive

 

[Milan_4]

@madmatt30 I tried that, its going all over the place from 40-60

 

[madmatt30]

At idle that's normal - idle temps are always inaccurate on amd cpu's until the core temp is 40c+.

That thermal margin is not the CPU temp , its the headroom left until the chip hits such a high temp as to cause throttling

Amd chips are rated to 72c generally so 40c shown there means the CPU temp is 32c (72-40)

You need to get the CPU under load to see real temps.

Download prime95
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/bdc86eb1ed2989c30dcd1902e84939ae/motherboard/utilties/p95v285.win64.zip


Run it & select to start the standard test that pops up while keeping the amd overdrive tab onscreen.
Give it 2-3 minutes & see what your thermal margin gets down to as a minimum.

Then stop the test manually (windows task manager box in bottom right corner)

Prime puts an abnormal load on all cores & you will never stress the CPU this much in real life.

If that thermal margin stays above 0 you're fine , if it stays above 10c then even better.