"Core Temp" - A program for accurate K8 temperature monitoring

[The Coolest]

Download Core Temp v1.19.5

This program lets you monitor Intel's Core, Xeon, Pentium, Celeron and Atom series, AMD Ryzen, APU, FX, Phenom, Athlon64 and later VIA C7 and Nano chips' die temperature.
The temperature readings are very accurate as the data is collected from a Digital Thermal Sensor (or DTS) which is located in each individual processing core, near the hottest part.
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There is also an article posted about Core Temp and a little background on standard thermal sensors - Article
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If you find any bugs, please post it in the "Bugs" section ASAP!
Any suggestions on improvements or ideas are welcome in the "Development" section.
Note 1: Please read the ReadMe!.txt file for some useful tips.

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What's new:

Version 1.19.5 - 21th September, 2025

- New: Support for Zen 4 AMD processors including ThreadRipper 7000 series, Raphael, Dragon Ridge, Genoa ES, Hawk Point, Phoenix
- New: Support for Zen 5 AMD processors including ThreadRipper 9000 series, Granite Ridge, Fire Range, Strix Halo, Strix Point, Krackan Point, Turin
- New: Per-CCD and per-core temperature readings for all generations of Zen based processors, most models supported
- New: TDP and TjMax detection on most Zen based processors
- New: Support for Intel processors including Sapphire Rapids, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake M, and preliminary Panther Lake
- New: Dark Mode (requires Windows 10 or newer OS)
- New: Effective core frequency readings + system tray icon
- New: Core select menu for frequency (right click the frequency fields)
- New: P-Core/E-Core tooltip indicators
- New: Folder selection for log file path
- New: Windows Event Log reporting for Overheat Protection events
- New: System Information dialog upgraded
- New: Average measurement field for temperatures

- Fix: BSOD on some newer AMD machines
- Fix: Vulnerabilities in driver and better restrict driver access
- Fix: Improve frequency detection accuracy on AMD processors by using a new algorithm
- Fix: Frequency detection on newer Intel processors
- Fix: Many other fixes for older AMD and Intel processors
- Fix: Window size on DPI, resolution and display changes
- Fix: Button sizes in the settings dialog in some languages
- Fix: UI glitches on older OSes

- Change: Make the look and feel of the UI on AMD processors to be the same as Intel
- Change: Both Tdie and Tctl readings are displayed on Zen 1 processors when applicable
- Change: Mini-Mode and TjMax adjust options removed
- Change: Modulation field replaced with Effective frequency

Older versions

[windwithme]

Great

[Bootsy]

Program doesnt work on my fx60. It says I dont hve a rev F/G chip.

[GoThr3k]

why not rev E chips??

[4Qman]

Wicked, i love all these apps.

Just gota get a Conroe chip.

[nn_step]

It is 3C low for my 3000+ (compared to thermal Probe)
I would say excellent app

[The Coolest]

Program doesnt work on my fx60. It says I dont hve a rev F/G chip.

why not rev E chips??

Unfortunatly this feature is not supported in Rev E or earlier chips. An FX-60 is still a Toledo, which is still revision E.

It is 3C low for my 3000+ (compared to thermal Probe)
I would say excellent app

Thank you.

I intend to add a log option to this program so it will also record the temperature readings and probably do a minimum/maximum/average thing like in MBM5.

[NickS]

So I take it Rev. F chips are all AM2? My s939 Venice says F everywhere in CPU-Z lol, yet the proggy don't work . Is there a future version coming with support for older chips?

Nick

[The Coolest]

Well the thing is this program accesses the CPU for temperature information. And only revision F chips support this feature.
you have F everywhere, but that's CPUID string of a CPU, not the revision, which is DH-E3.

Well basically Rev F is Socket AM2, Socket F and Socket S1g1

[NickS]

Oh, alright Sounds cool though, can someone post screenshots?

Nick

[nn_step]

Oh, alright Sounds cool though, can someone post screenshots?

Nick

Alright

This is stock cooler (waiting for the AM2 version of 9500 to arrive)
Edit: notice R@H running

[NickS]

Nice! . My dad has the AM2 version of the 9500 (the silver nvidia one). It's rly nice. Has it for his s939 3800+ Venice.

Nick

[GoThr3k]

doesnt work an a dothan either?

[The Coolest]

This program will work only on the next CPUs:
All AM2, F, S1g1 on the AMD side (aka Revision F and up)
On the Intel side, it'll work on Yonah, Conroe and Merom.
None of the other CPUs support this feature unfortunately, so there will be no version to support older CPUs.

[Jaco]

I just installed your program. Really nice , I like it

Now I understand why I can't clock any higher ! (I'm using the crappy stock alu cooler for now )

[The Coolest]

Bump

[speed bump]

Nice if I didn't have my nobo die I would be all over this. I would love to know what my weird little cpu is cooking

[3oh6]

very nice little program, thanx much. now i can actually tell what the temp is on the M2N32-SLI...there was no way i was running at 26C

cheers

[nn_step]

If you wouldn't mind would you add:
1: graphs for temps
2: chipset temp detection

[faruquehabib]

wow, looks like my core center program disagrees with temps, although i trust this program more than core center...

[Jaco]

I vote for a temperature logging feature.
Nice to have : a graphical view like NN step suggests

[The Coolest]

If you wouldn't mind would you add:
1: graphs for temps
2: chipset temp detection

Noted, thx. I will have to play with making a graphic log if/when I get a decent amount of free time.
Adding a text log will probably come in a version sometime in the upcoming few days.

[afireinside]

Thanks I'll give this a shot, I bet I'm at like 65c and wondering why I can't hit 3ghz

[The Coolest]

This program will work only on the next CPUs:
All AM2, F, S1g1 on the AMD side (aka Revision F and up)
On the Intel side, it'll work on Yonah, Conroe and Merom.
None of the other CPUs support this feature unfortunately, so there will be no version to support older CPUs.

Update:
Well guys... I was wrong. After recieving some interesting info and some testing. We've found that this feature has existed in A64s since the SH-C0 revision, and was undocumented in all AMDs docs!

So now after some rework of the program, I bring you Core Temp that works on pretty much all K8 CPUs out there.
One thing is its still in testing. I also merged it with AMD64 TCaseMax for the owners of RevE chips.

Run it, and let me know of any problems that you might stumble on with this build.

Link is in the first post.

[NickS]

Works great. Temp gets a little bouncy (1*C) incraments but it works awesome.

Thank god i know my REAL temp. 40*C isn't bad on a naked 3200+ @ stock atm, w/modified XP-90.

Nick