https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:39:57 +0000 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:16:54 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=17258 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=17258&PID=81456&title=weird-temperature-results#81456 Author: Marscaleb
Subject: 17258
Posted: 16 Nov 2020 at 3:16am

I've been trying to track down a problem where my computer shuts off as if it lost power. Recently I realized that it usually does this after being on all day, so maybe it's overheating. I downloaded some monitoring software so I could see what kind of temperature my hardware is at.

The program lists three temperatures for my motherboard, but it just lists them as "temperature #1" and "temperature #2" and "temperature #3." I don't know exactly what they are measuring, what these temperatures really mean, and what is a healthy range.

Temperature #3 remains fairly consistently around 30 degrees. Temperature #1 varies a bit, but I've noticed that it will get hotter when my GPU gets hotter. But temperature #2 is giving me weird results.

First off all, just when I'm idling and not really doing much, it varies a lot, but what is really striking is that it commonly will jump up to 120 degrees or even 125. It never stays at a consistent temperature, but constantly spikes around between 90 to 120.
But what is REALLY odd is when I start doing something taxing with my system, it will spike exactly in tandem with my CPU temp, except in the opposite direction. When my CPU temp spikes up, temp#2 spikes DOWN. If I do something taxing on my system, my CPU temp will rise, and temp #2 starts to drop.

What is going on here? What are these measuring the temperature of? And... what kind of temperature should these be running at?

I have an ASRock 970 Extreme4, with an AMD FX-8350.]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2020 03:16:54 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=17258&PID=81456&title=weird-temperature-results#81456