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CPU Core or Socket.

tomtalk24

Junior Member

CPU Core or Socket.

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 12:15pm

Hi all, I'm having a bit of a headache with this one. When monitoring CPU temps (AMD) is it Core or Socket?
I would say Socket, due to the water block directly connected to the CPU cap connected to the chip. so core would be lower right? So best to monitor Socket, which is further away from any cooling and would hit danger/waning levels before the core will?
Can anyone give any feedback to this.
Thanks.

Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 12:29pm

You want to monitor the core of course because it is the much more important temperature.

tomtalk24

Junior Member

Thursday, December 10th 2015, 12:42pm

I see..
I always presumed the Core would be the first to be cooled wheres the socket would be left behind so the speak, then when under load would heat up quicker in comparison.
Thanks for that, learn something new every day :)

GTXJackBauer

Full Member

Friday, December 11th 2015, 2:19am

Core because that is actually on the CPU Die itself, even though the temps on the socket will be higher than the core and CPU package itself. When under stress, my socket temp is usually 10c higher than my core temps, on average.

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