Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

Monday night football and the kids on a 4 day weekend kind of slowed me down but the new Test Sensor feature is finally ready for some testing.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/...alTempBeta.zip

If you are lucky and have some decent sensors then you might end up with something that looks like this:



I can only imagine what crappy sensors are going to look like.

I added a lot of extra code to try to make setting up this test as simple as possible but for best results it will still help if you follow a few directions.

This test uses Prime95 - Small FFTs to create a consistent amount of heat. If you don't already have it installed then click on the Download Prime95 button and it will take you to the website where you can download either a 32 or 64 bit version. Scroll down to Step3 when the Mersenne - Prime95 web page pops up for a download link.

If you have a Dual Core then you could probably use Orthos Small FFTs instead but I haven't tried that yet. Prime95 has recently been updated to version 25.7 build 3 so I'm recommending that.

You need to let RealTemp start up Prime95. This will give RealTemp full control of Prime95 so it can shut Prime95 down automatically when it reaches the 0.0% level of this test. The CPU Cool Down Test won't start if you already have Prime95 running. You will need to shut it down first before starting this test.

Before clicking on the Sensor Test button, make sure your computer is as idle as possible for best results. Give Vista some time to calm down before starting a test. The first thing it will do is run the previous sensor movement test to give you a quick idea of how your sensors are doing.

To begin the more thorough CPU Cool Down Test click on the Start button and navigate to the directory where you have prime95.exe installed.

When Prime95 starts up, select the Small FFTs option at the top and click on OK to begin the heat up phase. There is plenty of feedback in the info window so you don't have to remember too much of this.

That's about all there is to it to get this test started. Go for a coffee or kick back for about 10 minutes and RealTemp will do the rest. You can Stop or cancel this test at any time if you get bored. When the test is done it should look like the picture above.

What you're looking for are sensors that show movement at each stage of this test. If there isn't movement then you might have a sticking sensor or two. If both sensors are moving but moving at different rates then that would show "slope error" that Intel has warned us about.

I haven't tried this on a Quad yet but it should work OK. Post some results and lets see if we can figure out anything new about these sensors.