Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

rge: Pic is with IR reading 73.9, and RT core 74.

Pictures like that speak volumes. Keep it handy for the non believers!
You've got me curious about the E7200. I might pick one up for a test if the price is right.

on the RT main page VID is displayed as MaxVID (unchanged) rather than as real VID, which is 1.290V at the moment

I think this is a common misunderstanding. VID may not have anything to do with the actual core voltage that your processor is receiving. CPU-Z typically reports Core Voltage or actual voltage. Think of VID as the voltage that the processor is requesting from the motherboard. The motherboard, depending on how it is set up, can use this information or can ignore it. If your bios is set to AUTO and you are not overclocking then motherboards are designed to set your maximum core voltage to your maximum VID. There is always a little bit of voltage droop so you typically end up with slightly less than the maximum. Your max VID is 1.3250 so if CPU-Z is reporting 1.29 volts then it might be working the way it is designed to do. If you are manually setting core voltage in the bios then VID information is usually ignored.

With my Q6600 at default MHz and AUTO voltage with C1E enabled, CPU-Z reports core voltage just less than Minimum VID at idle and just less than Maximum VID at full load.



And here it is with Orthos warming up a couple of cores.


A small amount of voltage droop between what the processor asks for and what the motherboard delivers is normal. The new Min / Max VID numbers in RealTemp definitely have some meaning on my CPU and board.

This is what you should see after clicking on Test Sensors if RT has swapped your center cores.


jcniest5: What operating system are you using? The bench score is based on Windows XP with a minimum of background junk running. I don't remember seeing any Vista scores that were significantly less but maybe a few Vista users can post their scores for comparison. My E8400 at 3000 MHz as well as my Q6600 at 3000 MHz both score 1000. It's only a single core bench and doesn't take advantage of the extra cache in the E8400 so there is no difference between the two. The only difference is that on a Quad I can run 4 instances of the RealTemp XS Bench at the same time and the scores are all very close together.