Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

The (++) (--) Idle Calibration feature is mostly for the fanatics amongst us that go ape s-h-i-t when they see an idle temperature that is a couple of degrees below their ambient temperature. Some users see that as a sure sign that TjMax must be wrong but it usually isn't. If you run your E6600 at a very low core voltage of 1.10 volts and underclock it to 1600 MHz (266x6) then it will likely confirm that your idle temps are too low. A (+) or (++) calibration setting is often times best for the early Conroe Revision B2 processors.

I just uploaded a RealTempLogTest file.

It was run on my 65nm E2160. It consists of 4 runs of one minute of idle followed by one minute of Orthos to get some good temp movements up and down so I could compare how the two DTS sensors track each other. I set it to log the temps at an interval of 1 second so there is 478 data points for each core. 98.3% of the time or 470 of the 478 temp readings are identical. The overall average difference between the core readings is only 0.04 degrees. That's a little tighter quality control then the over 30C difference in Brama's cores at idle. Let's hope Intel gets this fixed in the Revision C1 E8x00 dual cores.