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Home»Hardware»CPUs»How to Check CPU Temp in Windows 11?

How to Check CPU Temp in Windows 11?

Deep ShresthaBy Deep ShresthaDecember 12, 2022
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Any component, when it reaches a high temperature, lowers its performance to prevent itself from any damage. This is called thermal throttling. Your PC components could suffer from thermal throttling when it lacks proper airflow, when it is overclocked, or if your thermal paste is dried up.

Your hardware has a high chance of degrading if it continues to operate at a high temperature, especially your CPU. However, the built-in protection does shut down the entire processor in case the CPU reaches extreme temperature.

If you want your system to last longer, we always recommend you keep tabs on all hardware temperatures. Here, in this article, we have mentioned few reliable ways to monitor your CPU temp on you windows 11 PC.

You can either check CPU temperature from BIOS or by using hardware monitoring tools.

Table of Contents

  • Using BIOS
    • Getting Into BIOS
    • Check CPU Temp
  • Using Hardware Monitor Application
    • MSI AfterBurner
    • Core Temp
    • HWiNFO
    • CPUID HWMonitor
  • What Is Normal CPU Temp?

Using BIOS

A motherboard’s BIOS contains all the details about the system’s health. And this includes CPU and system temperatures, voltage, and fan speed.

Getting Into BIOS

Depending on the motherboard manufacturer, you can get into BIOS in multiple ways. In most computers, pressing the Delete key repeatedly during startup prompts you to BIOS. Refer to the motherboard or laptop user manual to get into BIOS.

Check CPU Temp

Once inside BIOS, follow the steps mentioned below.

  1. Now, search for settings named H/W monitor in your BIOS.
  2. Under PC Health Status, you can get CPU temperature, system temperature, fan speed, and voltage details.
    check cpu temp BIOS

Although the BIOS gives you the real-time CPU temperature, it is not possible to get the temperature during maximum CPU usage. This means that when the system reaches BIOS, its temperature already lowers.

Therefore, we always recommend using a hardware monitoring application to get an accurate CPU temperature.

Using Hardware Monitor Application

Hardware monitoring applications are a great way to get a real-time temperature reading. You can not only check CPU and GPU but, overall system temperature as well. Here, we have discussed a few hardware monitoring applications.

MSI AfterBurner

MSI Afterburner provides you with a graphical interface that provides all your CPU core’s temperatures. Like HWMonitor, it also includes CPU core usage, clock speed, and power. The application also lets the user limit GPU temperature and fan speed as well.

Note: Afterburner also works with any other devices not manufactured by MSI.
  1. Install and run MSI Afterburner.
  2. Now, click on the monitor icon on the left side of the Afterburner window.
    msi afterburner monitor icon
  3. Here, along with CPU usage, you can also see all core temperatures.
    afterburner cpu temp

Core Temp

core temp cpu temp

Core temperature not only measures the CPU temperature but also gets information about all the individual cores from your CPU. Besides this, you can also get its power consumption, power load, and frequency.

Install and run Core Temp. Under temperature reading, you can see all your core’s temperatures.

HWiNFO

HWiNFO is a great application to not only get details about hardware temperature but also the system details. This includes information about CPU processors, motherboards, video adapters, and many more.

  1. First, download and install HWiNFO.
  2. Run the application and go to the Sensors tab.
    hwinfo sensor tab
  3. Here, you can get maximum, minimum, and average CPU temperatures.
    cpu temp hwinfo

CPUID HWMonitor

HWMonitor also measures data from sensors on the motherboard and displays accurate temperature readings. Along with this, it also measures the hard drive’s read-write speed, CPU clock speed, power, GPU usage, etc.

  1. Install and run the application.
  2. Expand your CPU.
  3. Here, expand Temperatures to check real-time CPU temperature.
  4. Furthermore, expand Cores (Max) to read each core’s exact temperature.
    cpu temp hwmonitor

What Is Normal CPU Temp?

Depending on CPU usage, its temperature will vary. On idle, your CPU’s ideal temperature should be below 35°C. But temperature under 45 °C is also considered good enough unless it exceeds this limit.

On half-load (50%), the temperature should be around 50°C to 65°C. Whereas on full load, the temperature should not exceed 80°C.

If the CPU temp is beyond these limits, you might want to perform the necessary measures to lower CPU temperature.

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Deep Shrestha

Deep Shrestha works as a computer hardware writer at TechNewsToday with several hardware and programming certifications. Although he has been writing technical content for more than a year, his interest in hardware components started at a very young age ever since he heard about PC building. Pursuing his passion, he has assembled several desktop computers. Besides building desktop PCs, Deep also has hands-on experience fixing software and hardware issues on laptops and desktop computers. Using all this knowledge and skills about computer hardware, he's on a quest to make content that's easy to read and understand for everyone.

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