CPU temp does not match my board maker's software

JFrost · Sep 15, 2020

Hey now.

Why is gpu-z's cpu temp reading running around 13C higher (fluctuates a bit) than my board maker's software? (Gigabyte SIV software)

Motherboard software says cpu is 38C, gpu-z says 49C. gpu-z fluctuates faster than mb soft so can be as high as 51C or as close as 46C)

Why so much disparity? Can it be corrected?
Thanks.

W1zzard · Sep 15, 2020

Ryzen 1st gen CPU ?

milewski1015 · Sep 15, 2020

I would trust GPU-Z over the software from your motherboard maker. HWInfo64 is another good one. Check what HWinfo reports and compare

kapone32 · Sep 15, 2020

Download HWinfo it will give you more than just per core temp info.

Naki · Sep 15, 2020

What does latest Core Temp show?

You can try AIDA64 and Speccy too.

milewski1015 · Sep 15, 2020

Naki said:
What does latest Core Temp show?
You can try AIDA64 and Speccy too.

Isn't speccy known to improperly report certain values? Thought I saw a thread on TPU the other day where it displayed the wrong amount of VRAM for a GPU

Naki · Sep 15, 2020

No idea, could be - I do not use Speccy for my GPUs - I use GPU-Z, as it is the best for this task.

And I use Core Temp for CPUs' temps (mostly older stuff here - Intel Ivy Bridge with occasional Haswell).

EDIT: Spelling/clarity.

JFrost · Sep 15, 2020

W1zzard said:
Ryzen 1st gen CPU ?

No, i5 8500 (locked, not clocked)

milewski1015 said:
I would trust GPU-Z over the software from your motherboard maker.

I mean that's nice to say but without some kind of empirical evidence showing that one or the other is more "correct" I'm not likely to just take that as some gospel.

HWInfo64 is another good one. Check what HWinfo reports and compare

Naki said:
What does latest Core Temp show?
You can try AIDA64 and Speccy too.

Core Temp -

Arctucas · Sep 16, 2020

JFrost said:
No, i5 8500 (locked, not clocked)

I mean that's nice to say but without some kind of empirical evidence showing that one or the other is more "correct" I'm not likely to just take that as some gospel.

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Core Temp -
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You have circled core temperatures in HWiNFO and Core Temp, but I believe GPU-Z is reading package temperature.

Even so, there is a disparity between all of the software.

Does your MB have a debug LED that displays the CPU temperature?

That is what I believe would be most accurate, not any software.

basco · Sep 16, 2020

it looks to me op is reading average temp and if ya look at max temp then ya nailed it.

W1zzard · Sep 16, 2020

Arctucas said:
but I believe GPU-Z is reading package temperature.

I think that's it

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