Trying to understand the temp sensors on my M6Hero, getting some flakey readings.

[Blazemonkey]

I'm noticing some weird readings from two temperature sensors on my Maximus VI Hero. I was playing GTA5 last night and was initially shocked when I saw two sensors on the board hitting 125°c, the mobo is passively cooled and I'm running a lot of hardware with a slight overclock so I thought I might be pushing the chipset. But after doing some more testing this morning it seems these readings are quite erratic and must either be false or extrapolated incorrectly.

I'm monitoring the board with HWiNFO32 and OpenHardwareMonitor, here's a snapshot of the graph.(2,037 × 906, 326.03 KB)
At T-0:25 on the graph you can see where the game loads and from 0:23 to 0:18 I drove around ingame. At all other times the system was basically idling so the readings don't make much sense, especially towards T-0.

In fact, I'm not even sure what most of these mobo sensors are monitoring because Asus doesn't seem to have a working monitoring app for my board and windows 10. Any ideas?

[Nate152]

Hello Blazemonkey

They have to be false readings otherwise you'd be having problems or a burnt board by now, I use only HWinfo and temps seem normal on my maximus viii formula. If there is a newer version to update to you could try that.

Here's my HWInfo, excuse the CCleaner alert it popped up when I hit print screen. 🙂

[Blazemonkey]

Hi Nate, I agree! And this board has been rock solid, other than a few POST quirks I worked out a while ago, and it's running pretty much 24/7.

I notice in your screenshot sensors 4 and 5 seem to be giving odd readings at 11c, but not quite the mess that I'm seeing. Then again, your board is a couple generations ahead of mine so I'm sure things are a bit different.

[Blazemonkey]

Also, to be sure, I used my digital laser thermometer around the board during load, and the hottest spot was the chipset heatsink, sitting around 50°c. I'm sure the chip underneath is a bit warmer, but not by that much.

[Nate152]

50c sounds more like it.

Yeah I would think sensor 4 and 5 are false on mine too, 11c is about 51 degrees fahrenheit and it's 74 farenheiht in here. So no way can it be lower than room temp. 🙂

[Arne_Saknussemm]

If you have more than one app monitoring...some of them run in the background without you having them open...you can get weird readings. Polling conflicts.

125 degrees you would smell something 😉

[PerpetualCycle]

They can't be temperatures if their lowest value is always 0. I just hide them in HWINFO64.