un real cooling?

[davidticknor]

Today i did a simple overclock on my amd 8320 and got it to 4,2ghz. At idle HW monitor is actually saying it's cooling better than it did before when it wasn't over clocked? I currently have a corsair h60i with a push pull operating on max fan speed. That's only a single radiator cooler.

Before i overclocked it i was getting idle temps of around 7-10 C. My ambient temp is around 16 degrees C. After the overclock the numbers in HW monitor are saying im getting a low of 1 degree Celsius and am hovering around 2 and 3 degrees. I haven't put it under a stress test yet however so i'm not sure what a real max would be.

I don't get it, help me please!!

ps. that 20 degrees was when i was just playing a little bit of WoW

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[Nuclear101]

Something is wrong with the thermal sensor on your CPU. I recommend asking for a replacement unless you live at the South Pole

 

[davidticknor]

Something is wrong with the thermal sensor on your CPU. I recommend asking for a replacement unless you live at the South Pole

haha! I'm not sure about the thermal sensor being bad, because when I look on my MOBO's bios, on the HW monitor, it says im idling around 26 degrees. Maybe HWmonitor is messing up? My mobo came with a software that also showed temps around that 26 mark. Are there any other temperature monitors i could maybe download and check that are also reliable?

 

[Calculatron]

CPU Core temperature sensors (as opposed to the CPU Socket) are fed through a type of weighted equation, so they're very accurate for at-load core temperatures, but give very strange/sub-ambient readings when at idle.

Run prime95 for a bit, and the temperatures should seem far more reasonable. The other set of CPU temperatures should read just about the same or a bit higher.