Question Open Hardware Monitor reporting insane CPU & VRM temps

[WillC9303]

Hi all,

So I'm currently installing Windows 10 on a system with an i3-4170, Intel stock cooler, 8gb ram & Asus H81M-Plus motherboard and I've installed Open Hardware Monitor only for it to report that during light web browsing/downloading I'm reaching 100 Celsius on the CPU, with the motherboard VRM temps reaching an eye watering 115 celcius????

The stock fan occasionally ramps up but doesn't spin very fast, the CPU heatsink is barely luke warm to the touch, the motherboard MOSFETs are fairly hot but not burning & the southbridge is reasonably hot.

The CPU isn't thermal throttling either.

Is this just misreporting by Open Hardware Monitor or is something else causing this?

Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

When posting a thread of troubleshooting nature, it's customary to include your full system's specs. Please list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model. BIOS version for your motherboard?

You might want to see if aiming a fan at the VRM and the chipset heatsink does indeed bring about a flux in the numbers you're seeing.

Use this;

HWMONITOR | Softwares | CPUID

HWMonitor for Windows® x86/x64 is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, powers, currents, fans speed, utilizations, clock speeds ... The program handles : CPU and GPU-level hardware monitoring...

www.cpuid.com

and see what sort of temps you're getting.

 

[Misgar]

If you're using CPUID HWMonitor and other software, treat the insanely high readings with caution. Some programs are well known for inflating certain values.

If I was naive, I'd accept the HWMonitor readings of 6522MHz on all cores of my 7950X as true. Obviously they're not valid because I'm not cooling my system with liquid Nitrogen.

 

[WillC9303]

Well it turned out it had nothing to do with the software at all... After swapping out the stock cooler with a Cooler Master TX3 tower cooler, the temps never go above 60 degrees celcius.

My only guess is that the stock cooler wasn't seated properly (checked multiple times that it was) or was faulty in some way.