Is speedstep accurate?

[Bones82]

I noticed my temps on both cores at around 39C idle from speedfan. With HWmonitor (I think coretemp?) it says around 48 degrees C idle.

 

[hnzw rui]

I'd trust the higher value more... Also, are you sure it's speedstep and not speedfan? I'd download newer versions of both if available. On a P35 DS3R board w/E2160, both speedfan and coretemp reports the temps for me.

 

[Bones82]

I'm sorry it is speedfan. Speedfan reports Core 0 at 31 C and core 1 at 31 C idle. My videocard is at 56 C idle. HD is 50C. IF I run Prime 95 small FFT speedfan reports the core 0 is at 63 C and core 1 is at 63 C. Everything is very stable. HWmonitor reports 78C on both cores on Prime 95 and 48 idle on both. The sppedfan version is 4.33 and the HWmonitor is 1.08.0.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

use core temp. speedfan was too low by 15 degrees for me. i was also using a quad core though

 

[Bones82]

Core temp reports the exact same as speedfan. I feel like I have a cool running chip. 31 C idle for both cores and 60-63 C when running Prime 95. All this is with the FSB at 355. Does this seem pretty good?

 

[ethebubbeth]

See what the guy who made RealTemp has to say about e8400 temps http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...owthread.php?p=2809778. I was really worried my proc would fry using my old thermalright xp120 heatsink. Now I'm not so worried, unless I'm overclocking.