HW Monitor is reporting every core of my CPU as 287 degrees C. Obviously this is incorrect and there would clear signs of an issue. Flames being the most tell tale sign.

It’s an old AMD FX-6100 that’s driving a Plex Server. The machine is working absolutely fine, feeding up to 4 1080p streams at once with seemingly no issues. The server is, and has been on 24/7 for almost 6 years except for the usual maintenance.

The question is does the CPU need replacing?

Also as the CPU temps are wrong and if the CPU fan fails would the wrong temp readings prevent the machine from automatically shutting down due to overheating? Now that would be a major fire hazard.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Apparently I'm getting 100C while playing but I'm really not noticing any performance dips like at all. But I don't know how to look at these technical jargon can anyone explain it to me?

Just wondering, because I've run Cyperpunk on UltraRT and thermals sit anywhere between high 70s and mid 80s, and I can clearly feel the heat above my case if I touch it.

However, sometimes (randomly) when running not nearly as intensive games it will sit around high 80s and 90s on HWMonitor, and it is clearly not hot at whatsoever. I ran Diablo 2 resurrected and my GPU (RTX 3080) was at a comfortable 45-50, but the CPU was at high 80s, even 90 (again, not warm at all) .

I know most recommend using HWinfo, so I'm wondering if this is a common thing for HWMonitor. Thanks!

I overclocked my AMD 8320 to 4.00 ghz and ran prime 95 for 2 hours with a maximum temp of 73 degrees on load. Later on I played planetside 2 for 40 mins & I was getting ready to hit the bed. I logged out of the game and saw something really alarming!! Current CPU temp was at 55. Which was fine becasue I just got out of the game but the max temp was reading at 161 Degrees!!

Which is impossible because the Cpu should throttle itself down and turn the PC off before anything like that would ever happen. Hell my cpu & board should be fried if it went over like that.

My questing is it normal for HWmonitor give false reading? or am I missing something!!

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Hi I just upgraded from my i5 8400 to a i5 12400f and when I open hw monitor I don't see any temperatures , I only see the utilization tab under "Intel processor". Can someone explain what's happening here? I didn't have this issue with my i5 8400

Edit:I'm leaving this embarrassing post online so that anyone else with the same issue can see it

What you need to do is update HWmonitor

Hello all, semi-experienced builder here (4th build+lotsa upgrades), and I noticed something, I just upgraded from an i5 3570k + coolermaster hyper 212 plus to an intel i7 5820k and noctua nh d15 cooler. previously, my idle temps (using the 3570k) were in the lower to mid 40s (celcius of course). Now, I am looking at CPUID and seeing a load temp of 90 degrees.... Yesterday, I got 80 degrees, and between now and then, I have removed the low noise adapters on my cooler. So for clarity, the tempreature at idle went UP after removing my low noise adapters. The machine overall runs fine, and, despite this rediculous temperature, does not appear to struggle when running FC3 and Skyrim at my resolution of 5760x1080, nor has the CPU overheated and caused a shutdown, despite CPUID's insistance that it has reached 187 degrees in the past, which seems rather unlikely, seeing as even CPUID has not shown anything over 100 since my last reboot, and I have yet to open a game.

I do note that the other temperatures are correct, as checked using Piriform Speccy, but Speccy is somehow unable to get my CPU temp

specs and CPUID http://imgur.com/a/CJ9Zv

EDIT: after reapplying thermal paste, I am still having problems. BIOS states that the CPU is a cool 38 degrees celcisus, CPUID says 97.My previous thermal paste application looked a little on the thin side, so I upped it to appx 2 grains of rice to compensate for the absolutely huge die size of the CPU in question

EDIT 2: after borrowing an infrared thermometer from a friend, I have determined the readings to be false. after grabbing a few other programs to confirm my hypothesis, I think that CPUID is ADDING the temp of core 0 and my average temp across all cores. No clue why, but im just glad to not have to worry about my temps