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.
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