I have the ROG Front Base and tend to use a program called Speccy (by Piriform) to view system data. This shows that my CPU temperature is always higher on the Front Panel than what is displayed by Speccy, and often by as much as 8 degrees which is a huge difference!
But, in Speccy it shows the temperature of each core and the average temp. What I tend to see is that the ROG Front Panel is slow to respond, I guess it uses quite a high filter for the CPU temperature, and that it is usually reasonably close to the highest core temperature detected in Speccy. Therefore I can only assume that the Front Panel is reporting the highest core temperature and not the average of the cores?
I can only guess at this and would appreciate it if an ASUS representative could confirm if there is any truth to my assumptions?