Quote Originally Posted by unclewebb View Post
FYI: The Quads have eliminated the diode that used to be read and displayed as CPU temperature in SpeedFan and many bioses used to read this diode as well to report the CPU temperature. Without a diode anymore, these readings are meaningless.

Anyone that wants to confirm this should read the Intel datasheet for more info:
Intel® Core™2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor and Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor
Section 4.2.9 Digital Thermal Sensor
ftp://download.intel.com/design/proc...x/31559404.pdf
Excellent link - I hadn't seen this yet - thanks much!