Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/...7/RealTemp.zip

The link in post#1 is working fine for downloading version 2.0

Now the question is how many people are having problems with their temperature being reported as DTS=0 or full temperature with version 2.0 as lasershock shows above?

Edit: I think problems were caused by the driver not getting initialized properly and my program not properly checking if it was initialized or not. In Vista you will need to run RealTemp as an Administrator to get it to work properly. Version 2.1 now does proper driver testing and will exit if it can't be found.

lasershock: Did previous versions work fine for you?

graysky: There are two versions of the Q6600, the early B3 and the later G0. I believe that the B3 like yours has a TjMax = 85C and the G0 has a TjMax = 95C. Just because CoreTemp has chosen a TjMax = 100C doesn't make it necessarily true. He has no documentation from Intel to back that up.

With my B2 E6400 I need an Idle Temp Calibration setting of ++ to get proper idle temperatures. If you set your B3 to this setting then do that low temp test again. Your idle temperatures will look very believable. Until someone points an IR gun at a B3 to confirm or deny things, I'm sticking to my TjMax=85C theory.

The Distance to TjMax number is just the raw DTS data read from the processor. How a program chooses to interpret that data will result in different reported absolute temperatures.

Absolute Temperature = TjMax - DTS

RealTemp and CoreTemp choosing TjMax that is 15C different is what causes your temps to be displayed 15C different by these two programs.

emoners: Intel will not do anything about a sensor getting stuck at low temperatures. They don't approve any software that tries to do anything with the data coming from this sensor. The DTS sensor is designed to control thermal throttling so as long as your processor doesn't catch on fire then it is working within the Intel spec and doesn't need to be replaced. If you are unhappy with a stuck sensor then your own recourse is EBay and then you can try and buy another one and see if that is any better.

HDCHOPPER: Unfortunately your 820 processor doesn't have a DTS sensor in it that any program can read the data from. I still think that the 65nm Pentium 4 has a DTS sensor but I haven't got any feedback yet to confirm this.

jaredpace: I disabled the sensor test on mobile processors because they don't have the kind of cooling a desktop processor has. This test is designed for desktop processors only. Did you try previous versions of RealTemp? Were they reading your temperatures correctly on your T7100? Can you post a screen shot? If previous versions worked then I will have to shoot the driver I switched to and bury it.

Are the problems only on Vista or does anyone with XP not have proper temperatures anymore?