Core Temp where have you been all my life!
22 August 2007
We have all had the problem of the motherboard temp reading being wrong and by a large margin. For example my latest HTPC fitted with a (Energy Efficient) AMD 4200+ (2.3Ghz). The mobo reported the temps at 60 degrees!
Thats a bit hot you might say, and it had me worried too. But then I aready know not to trust mobo temps as they are often wrong so I went searching for a better way to get an acurate reading of the real temp of my X2. Thats when I came across Core Temp.
finally i can see my real temps - idle = 25degrees core 0, 30degress core 1
Thermal crisis over....and finally a way to get the real temp of my core's. Thumbs up to the developers. A new proggy has been added to my essentials list.
Thats a bit hot you might say, and it had me worried too. But then I aready know not to trust mobo temps as they are often wrong so I went searching for a better way to get an acurate reading of the real temp of my X2. Thats when I came across Core Temp.
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Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
Core Temp lets you monitor Intel "Core Duo", "Core Solo" (Yonah), "Core 2 Duo", "Core 2 Extreme", "Core 2 Quad", " Pentium E1000" series, "Celeron 400" series (Allendale, Conroe, Merom, Kentsfield, Conroe-L respectively), "Xeon 3000/3200/5100/5300" series (Woodcrest, Clovertown respectively) and all AMD K8 (AMD64) series die temperature.
The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. This sensor is digital, which means it doesn't rely on an external circuit located on the motherboard to report temperature, its value is stored in a special register in the processor so any software can access and read it. This eliminates any inaccuracy that can be caused by external motherboard circuits and sensors and then different types of programs trying to read those sensors.
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
Core Temp lets you monitor Intel "Core Duo", "Core Solo" (Yonah), "Core 2 Duo", "Core 2 Extreme", "Core 2 Quad", " Pentium E1000" series, "Celeron 400" series (Allendale, Conroe, Merom, Kentsfield, Conroe-L respectively), "Xeon 3000/3200/5100/5300" series (Woodcrest, Clovertown respectively) and all AMD K8 (AMD64) series die temperature.
The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part. This sensor is digital, which means it doesn't rely on an external circuit located on the motherboard to report temperature, its value is stored in a special register in the processor so any software can access and read it. This eliminates any inaccuracy that can be caused by external motherboard circuits and sensors and then different types of programs trying to read those sensors.
finally i can see my real temps - idle = 25degrees core 0, 30degress core 1
Thermal crisis over....and finally a way to get the real temp of my core's. Thumbs up to the developers. A new proggy has been added to my essentials list.
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The fried system had a fan stuck, but it was a cheap Compaq PC that didn't even have a 3-wire fan for RPM monitoring. Just two wires for power.