Question What are these temps in HWMonitor and are they too high ?

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Hello, i have been using HWMonitor recently to monitor my prebuilt system as i'm having some performance issues with it, i have noticed 2 temperatures that go higher than anything else and i'm wondering what they are and do they possibly effect my CPU/PCs performance, the 2 temps are PCH from Motherboard and VR from my CPU.

My CPU is i5-12400F which has managed to get a pretty low score of 8,197 in 3DMark Time Spy, i was under the impression that it should be 10-12K.
Motherboard is Lenovo 3741, this is all i can get from HWMonitor.
Prebuilt is IdeaCentre Gaming 5 17IAB7 (RTX 3060)

If need more info let me know.

Here is the Time Spy results i ran few days ago if they show anything useful.
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/53525864




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Honestly, I was just kidding man. My apologies that you seem to have not taken it that way. Totally my bad I guess.
What do you mean? i'm not pissed off at you or anything i'm actually very thankful for trying your best to help me out, whatever the issue that my PC is having seems to be a mystery to everyone, because i have nearly upgraded everything and STILL the problems continue 😀

But yeah i ordered a Gigabyte RTX 3060 12 GB Windforce OC 2.0 GDDR6. i'm going to test if this will solve this mystery performance drop and if not, i will also grab that i5-12600K or possibly better and a 650W PSU if necessary, so far the 550W bronze PSU i borrowed is running things fine and it is incredibly quiet, not even a peep coming out of that thing.

Theres a possibility i could try to grab one of those AIO pump thingies since there is just enough room for a 360mm AIO on the roof, only sort of but not really regret i have is not getting like a reverse connector motherboard because this case supports it, would look much more pretty but oh well.

I will wait for the arrival of the new GPU and i will return to update whether my suspicion was correct or not. :bounce:

EDIT: i was impatient and bought a i5-14600KF to be delivered with the GPU 🤣
 
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