CPU temperature monitor error

[pak000]

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.

[spiral out]

Have you cleaned the case out recently, especially the CPU heatsink and fan?

[pak000]

nope, but there isn't much dust buildup, although i have realised that the program i was using to read the temperature doesn't update when a certain window is up, so the temperature has dropped down to 60 when idle....still rather high in my opinion.

[unxetas]

Well it is quite common for temperature control software to give false readings.. To be honest, I have no idea what would work with your amd system, I just know that both TAT (intel's temperature control thingy) and Coretemp seem fairly accurate for me while SpeedFan and others (including the motherboard monitoring program) are broadly mis-presenting my temperatures!

So have a look around to see what the best software would be for your system, sorry that I can't help more than that

[pak000]

np, thanks for your advice