High Temperatures Reported With AMD APU's

[crawfyp1]

Speccy has been reporting very high temperatures for me and I wonder if anyone knows why.

 

I build systems as a hobby/small business.

 

Recently, I have been using AMD APU's paired with Gigabyte motherboards and Corsair vengeance RAM, Windows 10 64 Bit

 

The APU's I have been using are: AMD A8-7670k, A8-6600k Black edition, A6-6400k Black edition

 

Motherboards used are: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H and F2A88XM-HD3

 

All the systems built with any combination of the above show high temps, 50 to 60 degrees C at idle and 70 to 100 degrees C under load. I am convinced that these temps are incorrect, just feeling the heatsink with my hand leads me to this conclusion. HW Monitor also shows very high temps as do most other utilities. Interestingly, AMD overdrive software shows temps as expected (40 to 45 C at idle and 60 to 65 under heavy load).

 

Things that have made no difference to Speccy high readings are: thermal paste (I always use quality), fans (stock or higher quality make absolutely no difference) - please don't reply with the usual thermal paste and fan suggestions and yes, they are always connected correctly to Mobo.

 

Can anyone tell me why Speccy is showing such high temps with multiple brand new AMD APU's? - My intel i3, i5, i7 systems always show fine BTW

[hazelnut]

Have a read here

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=42888

[crawfyp1]

Have a read here

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=42888

 

Thank you Hazelnut, I am not alone it seems.

[GoneToPlaid]

Hehe. One of my computers has a Gigabyte motherboard with an AMD FX-4300 cpu. BIOS reports the correct cpu temperature, but Speccy reports that the cpu's temperature is only 10 Celsius which of course is much lower than room temperature!