What software for CPU temp?

[David9799]

I have a Q6600 and a Asus P5K Deluxe, i have tired cored temp, real temp and used asus software to get the cpu temps and they all will say something differant so how do you know which one to really go by?

Even the bios shows a differant temp than what the software does. I would think the bios is the most accurate?


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[stocius]

I have a Q6600 and a Asus P5K Deluxe, i have tired cored temp, real temp and used asus software to get the cpu temps and they all will say something differant so how do you know which one to really go by?

Even the bios shows a differant temp than what the software does. I would think the bios is the most accurate?


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For Intel, I use Real Tempt but to the best of my knowledge no software temp monitors are completely accurate.

[Martinm210]

Yeah, I don't think any of them are accurate at measuring idle temperatures, although I tend to trust coretemp a little more.

I have two very accurate digital one wire sensors measure both water in and out of the CPU block and I still get coretemp to measure one core lower than the water temperature which is impossible. Realtemp is even lower, although it does allow calibration of the temps.

I don't think you can trust any of them, they are only good for relative measurements of different cooling setups on that particular motherboard and processor only. Coretemp does appear to provide more active measurements though, and I like the logging function of the earlier coretemps. The new one doesn't separate the cores out into individual columns, so trying to do anything with that data in excel is a mess.

[stocius]

Yeah, I don't think any of them are accurate at measuring idle temperatures, although I tend to trust coretemp a little more.

I have two very accurate digital one wire sensors measure both water in and out of the CPU block and I still get coretemp to measure one core lower than the water temperature which is impossible. Realtemp is even lower, although it does allow calibration of the temps.

I don't think you can trust any of them, they are only good for relative measurements of different cooling setups on that particular motherboard and processor only.

This gentleman pretty stated it all. :up: