So yeah, I noticed an abnormally high temperature with some hardware I got second hand to REPLACE the FAILED AM3+ motherboard I was using (FX 8350). I trust the guy I got this system from so I don't really think anything is wrong, I'm pretty sure it's just a bogus reading buuuut...

I have to ask since Google is turning up dead ends. As you'll see below, open hardware monitor is reporting ROUGHLY 230F temperatures on something, speedfan thinks its the CPU, the BIOS insists the CPU is running cold as does open hardware monitor. I think this is just a case of ITX strangeness but I'm not sure. My system specs are listed below as well, I even ditched the Intel heatsink for a Cryorig H7 I had on my FX8350 to no avail. The bizarre high temperature does not change with load on the CPU or other system components EITHER. Also, no it's not the GPU it's reading.

If anyone knows whats going on, cool, lemme know, if not, no biggie, probably just a harmless anomaly.

The specs of this system are:

Intel Core i5 4570 3.20GHz (up to 3.6 boost)
Cryorig H7 heatsink that sticks out of the case like a tumor until I can afford a C7
MSI H81I ITX motherboard (MS-7851)
12GB DDR3 1600
GTX 750 Ti 2GB
FSP 450w SFX PSU

Should be all you need, but the rest of the system components are
Western Digital WD3200AVJS 320GB 2nd HDD
PNY Optima 240GB SSD (Boot / Primary)
Silverstone ML08B case



The BIOS reading is the authority here- if anything disagrees with it it is almost certainly wrong, since the BIOS knows exactly where each sensor is on the motherboard I/O wise. Software either has to know where it is for that specific motherboard or try to guess- and it can often guess wrong.That's what I thought, thanks. Better safe than sorry, I had a Shuttle system around 2006 with a socket 478 Northwood that was given to me cause the PSU died, it did the same THING with one of its temperatures. Good to know my desktop isn't going Chernobyl on me though, thanks again.