I'm finding this hard to believe.....

Might be a buggard sensor.

I use coretemp mainly. I do not trust speedfan. I would say it is either a sensor issue or a calibration issue.

What is your room temperature? The core can't be 20c if your room temp is 20c or more.

so you are saying the core should definitely be higher even with my unique fan configuration?

room temp is 16c

I'm using core temp simultaneously and the readings are the same

look at my crazy fan configuration.....btw I couldn't care less about the noise, it's not that loud.

http://www.overclock.net/air-cooling...nion-what.html

Use realtemp for temperature monitors (honestly, I don't trust the other ones at all).

Remember, you are only as hot as your hottest core (the lower temped cores do not make a difference).

Also, you should only worry about what temps you are getting when you are reaching within 20c of the maximum temperatures for your CPU).

I forgot to mention, Everest ultimate is a great piece of software for monitoring the temps of your entire system, as well as other information (ram speeds etc)

No, I find that I have this same problem (With EVEREST and SpeedFan reporting a "CPU temp" ~5 degrees higher than the "Core temp" that is reported by all other apps); don't use EVEREST. It also has a tendency to miscalculate [underestimate] your FSB/HTT when running stress testing tasks (sometimes my FSB/HTT shows up as just 2mhz when running EVEREST in conjunction with a video encode!)