Seems a bit high, mine is idling at 18 which can't be right because I'm pretty sure that's lower than the room temperature. What temps do you get under load?
I was looking at the wrong temp, I'm getting 36 on idle. I have a noctua c14 but the fan is dead slow so I would think your temps would be better than mine. As long as your load temp is under 60 (pretty sure that's right) then you're good.
Initially (the first minutes or so when I boot up the pc) I also have temperatures a chunk below the room temp. I think it has to do with the 'thermal capacity' of a watercooling (or a good heatsink) (it takes a while for water(or the heatsink) to reach higher temperatures).
I have a $30 air cooler and at stock clocks my 8350 idles at around 16c and maxes out in a p95 run at 40c. Is that even possible? Ambient air temps at 22c. Cooler is a cooler master hyper n-520. That's not even boot up temps either, I can put it on load for a few hours and after idling for about a minute it goes right back to 16.
The biggest problem with AMD boards is that they can read out pretty well full load temps, but on idle its weird and never accurate. I use HWMonitor, AMD OD, and AIDA to check my temps all at the same time. Usually they're off by 5c each. I live in Las Vegas where its HOT as hell. I get 20c idle temp today, when outside its around 34c and inside my house im at 26c. weird temp readouts. When i run full load though, my temps are pretty accurate, i hit around 55c max and thats if im running a really hardware intensive game like battlefield 4. That's with 2 video cards. and max fan settings on everything.
tell me about it. i try to use coretemp and i'll adjust the offset according to the stock asus montering program. but when i put load on the cpu, the asus program will tell me it's somewhere around 52c when coretemp will display something like 65c.