Is that supposed to happen? (124c peak)

[khrokihh]

https://imgur.com/a/rfhhiqp

124c on i7 9700 for a sec is that a bug or is it cooking?

[Mack]

Supposedly intel CPUs are safe up to that temp, but I can't find any actual source or info, it might be broscience, or people bringing forward old info into new chips.

It says your clock spiked to 7200mhz (aka 7.2ghz) at the same time. Which is theoretically possible, but that's what people would get with record setting LN2 overclocking with a 9990k.

But going to 7.2ghz would match a temperature spike of that nature. It could be a bug but it seems awfully convenient for a "bug" to report the temp and frequency spike at the same time.

I would reset my bios and start fresh, because of how abnormal a 7.2ghz frequency spike is. If it happens again it could fry your CPU. Go and see if you can set some max voltages and max clock speeds and lock down the CPU.

[UL_Jarnis]

This is a known bug. Hardware monitoring can get faulty data from some motherboards. They show up as individual spikes that make no sense when considering the values around the odd value.

No solution yet at this time. Motherboard BIOS updates may help.