Temp Reading

[epion2985]

Well, for one, that's the warranty gone. I mean most of us that would pop the ihs off don't care much about a warranty I suppose

Thats what I was thinking, on the extreme end people pop them off anyway, which is a lot more dangerous.

Beyond that, is knowing the core temp critical?

If a phase or whatever system is cooling the cpu and working properly, the overclock is stable, and the temp that's being read is stable (unless it's simply not reading anything at all) then I'm not sure I see much point in being able to know accurately what the temp of the core is unless you're testing a cpu for it's exact response to a particular form of cooling.

Appears to be so to a lot of people. Or maybe I am just getting my panties wet over nothing. Noticed a lot of people here try to diagnose and replicate results etc etc, data base threads with what was achieved at what temperature, makes the information pretty meaningless if the temp readings are not accurate.

I feel, however, that once a relationship can be drawn between a particular cpu and a load simulator to determine it's actual wattage, then all of the susequent information can be extrapolated without having to drill a hole in every IHS on every cpu.

Good point, but someone has to drill the first hole

also with Kentsfield you need to push 4 probes in if you want to be accurate.

also see your own sig for reason not to.

Then 4 it will be, though once I have one "reliable" core temp reading I would be pretty comfortable assuming the rest are with in a small margin of that.

You failed to understand my sig.