Core Temp reliable?

[MINTY99]

How reliable are the read-outs of this app?

[affiliate13]

Core temp is generally accepted to be one of the most accurate apps for reading temps as it gets its readings from the CPU's own sensor.

[MINTY99]

ty affiliate.

[Kelainefes]

Coretemp is the best thing after soldering a calibrated high precision thermocouple to each of your cores.
In fact as Affiliate13 says, it reads data from the cpu's own sensors, wich are soldered to the center of each core.

[MINTY99]

Pretty shit hot then!

[supershanks]

If your running 45nm CPU coretemp will be at least 10C overstated RealTemp offers a better solution. Latest coretemp will allow editing of the settings.ini like this :-

[Core Temp settings]
TjMaxOffset=-10

to correct the 105C TjMax to 95C

[MINTY99]

Thanks for pointing that out. Is there any indifference with 65nm cpu's?

[supershanks]

you can use either on 65nm both are good.

[affiliate13]

Originally Posted by supershanks

If your running 45nm CPU coretemp will be at least 10C overstated RealTemp offers a better solution. Latest coretemp will allow editing of the settings.ini like this :-

to correct the 105C TjMax to 95C

Excellent, i had never heard of Realtemp before.

[supershanks]

unclewebb only really got involved with it following all the crap about the wolfdale sensors as I linked to in the Realtemp post. He's done a great job & clarrified things a lot. I calibrated my idle temps on my E8400 , now makes a lot more sense

Shouldn't have been necessary in my opinion, but it's great when someone like him steps in.

luck