Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[CrazyNutz]

You could go to the first post and follow the directions religiously.

rge: TjMax is documented to be 100C for the laptops but now I wonder if they suffer from the same inaccuracies as the desktop DTS sensors do at low idle temperatures. They most likely do.

I think there is something that must be clear, from what I can tell Intel never
Intended the DTS sensors to provide us with accurate temps, we can obviously read the data from them but the data they provide is to let us know how close the proc is getting to thermal shutdown. So they are mainly for fan speed control, and alerting of catastrophic cooling failure. But It
is still nice to get a semi-accurate core temp to give us a decent idea how hot our procs are getting when we are
trying to squeeze every little oz of Mhz from them

[unclewebb]

I think there is something that must be clear, from what I can tell Intel never Intended the DTS sensors to provide us with accurate temps,....

From my testing I would say that is only half true. In the upper range within 35C of TjMax, the DTS seems to be very accurate and moves step for step with core temperatures changes.

It's only at the low end where it isn't 100% accurate for reporting idle temperatures. A simple correction factor can get it very close to reality, even down low.

[Kilyin]

Regarding x64, this may or may not interest you, but in Vista x64 to get CoreTemp to work I had to use a file called atsiv.exe in a batch file to load the ALSsysIO64.sys driver and launch CoreTemp.