Quote Originally Posted by CyberDruid View Post
But I feel guilty shaving 10C off my temps...I mean I should have to be using an uber cooler or something
Don't be afraid to send me some of the money I just saved you! If I got paid by the degree of temperature reduction I've created, I'd be a rich man.

For those that don't have time to read through this 31 page novel, here's the highlights. The reason I wrote RealTemp is because CoreTemp and Everest and all the other programs that assume that TjMax=105C for my E8400 are wrong. Dead wrong. The actual, measured core temperature of my E8400 is about 17C less at idle than what all those other programs are reporting. If CoreTemp and Everest are this far off on my 45nm E8400 then I don't have too much faith in either program correctly reporting the core temperature of a QX9650, 45nm Quad or any other processor for that matter.