Sandra or ITE Smart Guardian?

SNM

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I've got a DFI Ultra-D and a Venice 3200+ that I put together Sunday/Monday; I've been monitoring temps and setting it up and stuff and noticed that Smart Guardian & BIOS have never given me CPU temps over 42(That's after 14 hours no restarts w/ either gaming, Prime95, or both, plus probly another days worth with restarts but no shutdowns). Sandra, on the other hand, doesn't report temps under 42 degrees, and is typically 5-7 degrees higher. Which temp is more likely to be right, and why do they show up differently?
 

ericlala

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smartguardian keeps bouncing my temp between 3 numbers for cpu, does that happen to you?
 

SNM

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Actually, now that you mention it, it does. That's interesting.
For that reason alone I would think Sandra is better, but Smart Guardian reports the same temps as my BIOS, which is why I wonder where Sandra's getting its numbers from. :/
 

Ketchup

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Smart guardian is the correct temp on my DFI NF3. Sandra reports the PWM IC temp as CPU temp for me.