I have seen this on the board but I don't have McAfee software I use Kaspersky. I looked if McAfee  was installed, can't find anything. I think Kaspersky did a recent update, could be a conflict. Update November 19 =  I finally succeeded in lowering those  fans idle temps by quite a lot. I would say by a good 10°C. AWCC now shows CPU idling as low as 32°C and the " fans" temps are much lower. They now show temps in the low 30°C to mid 40°C ( instead of about  45-55°C)and the readings between the top and front now show some differences. I did not notice that before. Even the small speccy utility shows the same improvements. Possible culprit is Kaspersky Total Security. On the forum some were complaining about McAfee about strange temp readings. I uninstalled last years version and put in the newer version 21.2.16.590. The other software I'm watching is the Killer Control Center. That seemed to have done the trick. The av's tend to do low level idling scanning but who knows. I even tried moving my pc in the colder part of the computer room because Heating season is starting. I've been around PC's since 1985 ( I'm an old man!) so I’ve seen quite a bit of those. This is my 3rd Dell pc. The Aurora R10 my first AMD and it replaces a 10 year old XPS. I don't do gaming. It's distributed computing so that's why I buy a bit more power within my budget, that is. Right now I'm in IBM’s covid19 research DC. With that you can run with this machine with 32 units at a time, the graphic card GPU is used as a math processor for other projects. This CPU is very sensitive with thermal variations. I can’t understand people who buy air cooled. Anyway, Dell should provide more AWCC documentation. There is a help section but not technical.
Seems I can't get accurate minimal realistic temperature readings in the awcc fan temp section.Tried uninstalling awcc still same problem. Even 1 minute after turning on the computer it shows a higher fan section temp.15-20 degrees higher than the cpu. The motherboard reads 23°C on speccy but the same awcc high temps as in the fan section. If the temp. of the cpu is at 73°c then the fan section and speccy show the same temp. 73°C but if the cpu temp.is 35-40 °C cpu idling speccy and awcc shows high temps. The fans speed seems to work correctly ( vs cpu temp.). The section top and front temps are always the same value.Ran all the diagnostics even the pre-boot no fault found. So the question is: software or sensor problem. Is that temp a fan temp or mobo component value.? Not much documentation on the awwc. Never used awcc that much so I'm not sure if it was always acting like that.   [IMAGE][IMAGE]
Aurora R10, AWCC 5.2.97.0, weird fan temperatures