Tons of posts on the forum regarding this subject. Have fun searching the different opinions.

My two cents is that you can spend a great deal of time and energy obsessing over the issue without much results. I was unable to bring my operating temp down (similar to yours) and eventually just lived with it. Nothing ever came of it.

If all the fans and cooling systems appear to be functioning, I think we're just victims of this unique MB quirk.

dp

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