• We hope you have a fantastic holiday season to close out 2025! Thank you all so much for being part of the Tom's Guide community!

What does "max" mean on HWMonitor?

kenng

Honorable
Nov 16, 2012
1
0
10,510
On HWMonitor I see that the max temperature for CPUTIN (Which I also don't know what that is) is getting up to 100 degrees Celsius. What does that mean? Is it actually that hot, or getting that hot? And what is CPUTIN?