Which Temp Monitoring Programs do you use

[AkumaX]

CoreTemp and SpeedFan are displaying huge discrepancies (SpeedFan being 15° cooler). Which one would you believe? Others?

edit: rig + specs at post 206 (last post) in the giant q6600 o/cer's thread

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Coretemp displays core temperature. I use Coretemp and limit max test temp to -25C of Tjunction.

 

[genec57]

The tJunction of quad chips is 100c - that of C2D chips is 85c. Coretemp uses the correct tJunction for quads whereas speedfan uses 85c and that is the reason for the difference.
Core Temp is the correct temp.

 

[imported_i2k]

Does anyone know of any of these Core monitoring tools like Coretemp or TAT that actually run in Vista 64?

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: genec57
The tJunction of quad chips is 100c - that of C2D chips is 85c. Coretemp uses the correct tJunction for quads whereas speedfan uses 85c and that is the reason for the difference.
Core Temp is the correct temp.

I believe that this not quite right. The new G0 steppings Quad and dual have a tjunction max of 100C.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Some C2D chips have 100C Tjunction, like my E4300 with L2 stepping. I'm Orthos and S&M stable at 3.58GHz with 1.505Vcore but the max Coretemp is pushing 80C in 85F room.

Also note that I'm using the 120 x 38mm medium speed Panaflo and not the Big Typhoon's stock 120 x 25 mm fan. The Panaflo at full speed will drop maximum core temperature by an additional 2-3C. BT + Panaflo can cool the RAM, NB, and MOSFETs at the same time.

 

[AkumaX]

well, my q6600 b3's got a tjunction of 100°C so i guess im fine

 

[XBoxLPU]

Coretemp and TAT are what I trust

I have a E4400 with a T-junction of a 100 (@2.8Ghz and Prime 95 temps are at 52C)

 

[kentsfield]

Does anyone know of any of these Core monitoring tools like Coretemp or TAT that actually run in Vista 64?

Everest 4.0 and above works fine with vista x64. It reads core temps for all 4 cores like coretemp (tjunction temps). U can also see gpu, cpu (Tcase temp), mobo and hdd temps.

But it`s not a free program. They have everest home version (free) but it`s old and doesn`t support new hardware.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Speedfan can be accurate or low by 15C. Use the offset tool in Speedfan to change the display temperature.

 

[Eeyore69]

I am also interested in the accuracy of the coretemp measuring programs. I just built a system with a GA-P35-DS3R and Q6600 G0. Almost as soon as I turned it on over 2 weeks ago I upped the FSB (I haven't yet changed any other settings since I am burning in the cpu to insure that it doesn't crap out in the first month) to give me an overclock to 3.2G. Since then I have been running Einstein@Home 24/7 which I find works the cores just as well as Orthos or Prime95. Neither program has seen any errors so I assume that the processor is working alright. I have been checking the coretemps using CoreTemp but the reading don't seem right. At idle and ambient of ~70-75F I get temps of ~29C. Running E@H or Orthos takes me up to ~41C. During our hot spell in SoCal when the ambient was ~95-100F the max core temp I saw using CoreTemp was 51C (each core is different - there is a 4C difference between the hottest and coolest). Yet most of the temps that I see in the forums seem to be in the 40-50C range at idle and 60-70C range when fully loaded. There is that special case where I have the 1 in a million processor that runs cooler than most others but I have never had that kind of luck.

Should I be looking at other things to make sure that I am not quickly killing my processor? Things just don't seem right but I would really be relieved to hear that all is OK.

Eeyore

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Looks okay with default Vcore. Coretemp 0.95 should work well. You'll see a big jump in temp when you increase Vcore.

 

[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
Looks okay with default Vcore. Coretemp 0.95 should work well. You'll see a big jump in temp when you increase Vcore.

ONLY use Coretemp 0.95.4 for accurate temps for G0 chips. They need the tjunction setting at 100C. if not. you will be 15C lower than actual.

 

[JustaGeek]

Everest is well worth the $30.

Not only all the possible temperature sensors in the system, but invaluable system information: all the frequencies, voltages, SPD and EPP readings, you name it.

Just get the 1 month free trial - although limited (some values are simply blanked-out with the word "trial"), it will provide enough info to be able to decide if you want to buy it or not.

http://www.lavalys.com/product...hp?pid=3&ps=UE&lang=en

I keep the System Reports taken every time I change/add the hardware - it makes it easy to return the system to the settings that worked.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Is anyone else having a glitch with Coretemp not registering accurate temperatures?

I had zero problems before with stock HSF but after installing an Freezer Pro 7 CoreTemp was showing 65C ~ at idle! I thought I had installed the new HSF fan wrong only to come to find out CoreTemp was not displaying the right temperature. After setting to default opitions did CoreTemp show the correct temperatures. The glitch shows up again when the system goes under load, temperatures rise to ~50C and after going back to idle temperatures go to 65 to 67C! Refreshing core temp doesn't do the trick, only setting to default values or restarting does CoreTemp show the right idle temperatures.

TAT does not have this problem and the beta Coretemp doesn't resolve plus it tends to crash even with logging disabled.

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[mrfatboy]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
Is anyone else having a glitch with Coretemp not registering accurate temperatures?

I had zero problems before with stock HSF but after installing an Freezer Pro 7 CoreTemp was showing 65C ~ at idle! I thought I had installed the new HSF fan wrong only to come to find out CoreTemp was not displaying the right temperature. After setting to default opitions did CoreTemp show the correct temperatures. The glitch shows up again when the system goes under load, temperatures rise to ~50C and after going back to idle temperatures go to 65 to 67C! Refreshing core temp doesn't do the trick, only setting to default values or restarting does CoreTemp show the right idle temperatures.

TAT does not have this problem and the beta Coretemp doesn't resolve plus it tends to crash even with logging disabled.

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what is your system specs and what version of coretemp are you using?