I have an FX-6300 running at stock clocks, cooler by a Hyper 212 EVO, as I didn't entirely trust the stock cooler in my warm California climate. Today is particularly warm, with my ambient room temperature currently around 28-30C (I also have a fan aimed at my desk - the thermometer's across the room). I decided to run a full stress test (Prime95 blend @ all 6 cores) with both speedfan and HWmonitor open to see how it handles.
Obviously, the crazy "max" temps for CPUtin and the others in hwid can't be right, or else my system would have shut down, but how do I interpret the "real time" cpu temp? Do I believe Speedfan (with its alarming flame icon), which seems to read the same temp as HWmonitor's CPUtin, or do I believe HWMonitor's core temp reading, which is far less alarming?

Obviously, the crazy "max" temps for CPUtin and the others in hwid can't be right, or else my system would have shut down, but how do I interpret the "real time" cpu temp? Do I believe Speedfan (with its alarming flame icon), which seems to read the same temp as HWmonitor's CPUtin, or do I believe HWMonitor's core temp reading, which is far less alarming?