is my CPU overheating

[ChefFowler]

So i have a AMD based rig that was shutting itself off after about 2 mins. it was a MSI grenade motherboard with a x4 860k CPU. The first thing i did was put the CPU into a new motherboard and the shut down issues went away. gave it a clean wipe and even upgraded it from the stock air cooler to a kraken x31. The CAM software for the kraken was reading my cpu temp above 85C even though the liquid temp was only like 35 or so.

I doubler checked these results in CPU temp and Open Hardware Monitor. both those programs showed idle temps of 20C and in game of about 60C so i figured cam was somehow glitched. But while playing starcrafdt to my system was experiencing insane frame loss. and cam prompted that the CPU is way over temp. i rebooted and the BIOS showed 41C. so i figured lets swap the CPU and see what happens.

I put in a A10 7870K and CAM still shows temps of 80-85C, cpu temp shows 24C, i downloaded a few other programs recomended on here, and one of them was completley different than cam and CPU temp. it showed core temp of 42C as the highest and Package temp of 92C. so now im confused completley because i have one showing way over, several showing normal and 1 showing normalish and over at the same time.

 

[tanckattb]

You should put in the Athlon chip and then use a CPU stress test tool to monitor the temperatures under load. If it does indicate throttling, then that's your reason for the FPS drops. Sub programs include Aida64 and prime 95. Those are good for stress testing. If you want to Monitor temperatures in game, use MSI afterburner to show your CPU usage and temperature in game

 

[ChefFowler]

You should put in the Athlon chip and then use a CPU stress test tool to monitor the temperatures under load. If it does indicate throttling, then that's your reason for the FPS drops. Sub programs include Aida64 and prime 95. Those are good for stress testing. If you want to Monitor temperatures in game, use MSI afterburner to show your CPU usage and temperature in game

so with the A10 which is the better cpu and i will just keep the computer in this configuration now, i dont seem to see perfomance issues, i will try a stress test tool but i am worried of burning the A10 chip since im seeing the same temp results in CAM. is there a setting to where the system shuts down if it truly goes above the tempature threshold?

 

[ChefFowler]

so i just ran the fuzzy donut of death for a good hour and saw now frame drops due to throttling, i read a article that talks about how APU's dont get their temp read properly in some software. and alot of people reporting high temps shown in bios. im begining to think that the pc with the A10 in it is completley fine.