Nistomax: Here's a good example why I don't put too much faith in the CPU temperature reported by most motherboards.



13C is a great temperature but in a 22C environment with an air cooled processor it's impossible. SpeedFan reads this sensor and reports it as CPU but it's obviously meaningless.

For my E6400, when software guesses that TjMax=85C, I think the DTS is providing a pretty good approximation of what my absolute core temperature is from say 45C to 85C but I'm not convinced that the DTS is accurate at lower temperatures. It was designed and calibrated to be accurate at the throttling point but I have no data to prove how accurate it is at low temperatures like you're running.

Even if it's not accurate for reporting absolute temperatures, it is always accurate at reporting relative temperatures. If CoreTemp 0.95 reports that your Delta to Tjunction is 80C one day and then you do a few mods and it reports that your Delta to Tjunction is 85C the next day, your processor is definitely running 5C cooler than what it was running at before.

The DTS was designed to report how far you are away from TjMax and for that purpose, it's fully documented, calibrated and it's the best temperature information available for users.