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Please explain HW Monitor and temps.

Hartacus
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‎01-15-2013 07:28 AM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 10:21 PM by Community Admin

Someone told me that the CPU under mobo is for the socket?

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SUKARA
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‎01-15-2013 09:32 PM

CPU temperature: CPU core temperature
The motherboard temperature: the average of multiple sensor points on the motherboard
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oldbrave
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‎01-18-2013 06:31 PM

You are correct, the highlighted CPU temp is in fact the socket temp and the AMD FX 8350 package temp is the CPU core temp !
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