Is it particularly common for the temperature monitors to fail and give false readings? Lately mine has been reading >70°C almost all the time, regardless of the load. The system temperature is 36°C and is much cooler than it used to be before i added an additional fan.
I know my processor temperature always used to be on the high side (50-60) from what i recall, but 70 is excessive in my opinion
I have a abit AX8 mother board and an AMD 3500+
For cooling i have a 2x12cm fans (one intake flowing over the 3 harddrives, one exhaust out the back). I also have 1x8cm exhast roughly over the cpu.