![]() ![]() In AMD Overdrive (not the shady CPU overclocking tool in CCC, the actual program named like that) the software actually gives you accurate temperature readings ! But maybe not in the form you were wishing to see.ĪMD Overdrive lists the temperature of your CPU as a margin (called Thermal Margin) and it tells you how much ☌ you are from reaching the maximum safe CPU temperature. You need another type of software for that, and AMD just has the software that you need ! (How kind of them ?!) "How then do we read the temperature of our CPUs ?!" "How can we monitor our temps ? It's all fine having a software understand the data, I want to see my own temps !"Īs I've said above, generic hardware monitoring softwares do not understand the temperature sensor of an FX CPU. Now that we got this understood, I already see your questions forming in your head. Obviously, my CM Seidon 240M is really great at cooling my CPU, but I don't think the Third Law of Thermodynamics allows me to use a room-temperature liquid to cool something below the room temperature, sorry guys. Here's an example with my setup: This is a screenshot of Speccy during a normal Reddit browsing session on my computer and this is my room temperature as it the screenshot was taken. ![]() These softwares try to gather physical temperature data off of a sensor that reads completely different data. This is the reason why common software like Speccy, HWMonitor, CoreTemp and many others lists freezing cold temperatures for idling FX chips. The scale gets more and more accurate as the CPU approaches the thermal limit. This scale is used to detect if the chip is reaching its designed thermal limit and throttle it if the limit is reached. The data gathered by the sensor is evaluated on an AMD created temperature scale that does not correspond to Celsius or Fahrenheit (or Kelvin). This sensor is a digital sensor, it does not read any physical temperature data. So here's the guide explaining how to read your FX CPU temperatures at idle and on load !įirst, you must know that the FX CPUs only have one temperature sensor for the whole chip, not one per core. I've seen a lot of posts on Reddit and the Internet in general showing people's FX-8350 CPUs idling at and others trying to explain this by spreading misinformation or half-truths. ![]()
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