I'm getting very different readings of my CPU's temperature depending on the program that I use. My gut feeling is that ASUS' program is more accurate, since it came with the motherboard. (Extreme IV) Could I be wrong? If so, anything that I should buy to fix this? Case is a Rosewill Blackhawk Tower. I don't remember buying anything else than a heatsink. Not sure if necessary, but PSU is a 750W Rosewill. Maybe a new case?
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https://i.imgur.com/NJogzPb.jpg
CoreTemp and RealTemp are old stand-bys, likely reliable especially in their latest versions.
HWMonitor and AIDA-64 are also reliable, by my own experience.
Your screenshot shows the ASUS Fan Xpert window. I use Fan Xpert and I like it -- for what it does.
However, ASUS has consistently reported a single "CPU" temperature in their monitoring software (and other aspects of AI Suite) as much as 10+C lower than the core average temperatures. I have offered speculation about this, but it needs a reminder of emphasis here.
That being said! You didn't explain what your system was "doing" when you took the screenshot of the HWMonitor status. Since the "Package Power" is low and way below stock TDP for that 4930K, it looks as though the machine is idling. But the temperatures seem just a tad on the toasty side, but still reasonable.
On the other hand, I'd say that the voltage -- VCORE, which HWMonitor also reports accurately -- is too high. 1.416V to 1.424V?
If you're overclocking the processor, you're not likely doing it the best way.
You should be using the EIST and C1E power-saving features. An Ivy Bridge CPU should be idling at (or even lower than!) 1.0V. I would think that pushing the voltage to 1.30 to 1.31V under full load is a reasonable limit.
So that's where your "slightly high" idle temperatures are coming from, and I would suspect things would be a lot toastier when you're playing TitanFall or anything that that loads up all the cores/threads.
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