In this article, we have discussed ways to check the temperature of the CPU of your Windows system. Overheated CPUs often cause laggy-ness and may often result in unexpected shutdowns. Thus, you need to have a track of your CPU’s temperature on a timely basis to manage its optimal thermal range.
Below, we have mentioned how you can check the temperature of your system’s CPU. This will not only prevent it from overheating, but you will get an improved performance that will directly result in an increased lifespan.
How to track CPU’s Temperature to get Optimal Performance
The temperature of your CPU can be checked via third-party software or through your system’s BIOS/UEFI. This is because there’s no built-in tool offered by Windows for the same. So, let’s get started with the quick methods you can use to check the temperature of your system’s CPU.
Check CPU Temperature in the BIOS
To use this method, you need to enter your system’s BIOS. For that, you need to switch on your system and then press “F2” or the “DEL” key repeatedly before your PC boots up (the key may be either of the depending upon your PC vendors). In case the keys mentioned above do not work for your system, you need to search for your respective key through the web. The status of the temperature can be located under the BIOS menu named “PC Status” or “Hardware Monitor.”
Check CPU Temperature with Core Temp
You can go for an app named “Core Temp” if tracking the temperature through BIOS seems complicated to you. Its reliable, compact, powerful setup can easily monitor the temperature and other crucial information of your CPU. The temperature of the CPU can be seen immediately on the home screen of the app once it is launched.
What’s an Ideal Temperature for CPUs?
There is nothing like the ideal temperature for CPUs as it is directly based on the RAM/GPU/CPU architecture of the CPUs. Also, it depends upon their input Vcore and TDP. This is because the heat generated by the semiconductor chip depends directly upon the voltage drawn by it.
But as we have seen, in most of the cases, a 40-degree Celsius temperature seemed to be ideal, up to 60-degrees was acceptable, however over 70-degrees or more temperatures appeared to be the matter of concern, and those exceeding 80-degrees or even up to that were highly risky leading to damages to the system. Hence, we recommend turning it off for a while and letting it cool down before using it again.
Possible Reasons for CPU’s Overheating
Building up of cobwebs and dust on the internal components and processing fans is one of the significant reasons that cause overheating of the CPUs. This may restrict the airflow that is crucial for lowering the temperature levels of any of the semiconductor chips placed inside the system.
In case your PC keeps on registering high temperatures even if you aren’t doing any resource-intensive tasks on it, then it’s time for you to check for malware infestations if there’s any on your system. The data-harvesting software and crypto-mining scripts that run in the background often result in increased usage of resources on the systems, which certainly increases the core temperatures and directly affects the performance of the systems.
How to Lower CPU Temperature on Your PC?
You need to follow the below-mentioned steps to lower down the temperature of your CPU:
- First, you need to open up the case.
- Please make use of canned air and take a dry cloth for cleaning it up. Please make sure you pay particular attention to the case fans and the cooling fan of the CPU.
- Doing this will certainly reduce the temperature of your CPU.
- If the above procedure doesn’t work well, you need to check for possible malware on your system.
- You need to go to the Task Manager on your PC and track the processes that are consuming too many resources or power of your system. These processes may be the ones responsible for the overheating of your system.
- You should prefer uninstalling them if they’re not in use. You may go for alternate programs to the ones you have deleted.
So, these are the ways with which you can quickly check the temperature of your CPU and lower it down accordingly if needed.
