I've been following this thread since it began and appreciate all the work that's gone into this development.

There have been some great ideas posted here, and I just wanted to support one idea that I feel got passed over rather quickly.

Jaredpace suggested representing the temperature in the form of a coloured gauge rather than as an absolute temperature.

As I think most of us would agree, the actual core temperature is not that important in itself. System stability is our primary concern, and as long as the resulting temps under load are sufficiently below tjmax, then that's really all that's important.

It seems clear that Intel are reluctant to release the tjmax values for their processors, and whilst it's possible to perform many measurements and come up with proposals for the tjmax values, we can never be certain that these proposals are correct, especially considering that:
- the accuracy to which the sensors have been calibrated is not known
- it's not possible to position external sensors to measure temps at the same point

With the 'gauge' idea, it would only be necessary to agree on safe margins from tjmax (for colour-coding the gauge), which should be easier than trying to determine the tjmax values for each processor. Any such program could then report the distance from tjmax as an absolute value for information purposes.

I realise this would require a change in most peoples mindset, but I feel this would be a positive change.

Please understand that I'm not trying to detract from all the hard work and effort that's gone into this program so far. I know that other issues are also being addressed by this program. I'm personally familiar with the sticking sensors at low temps as my E8400 has 1 core permanently reporting 42C at stock (idle and load). I simply wanted to add my support to this 'gauge' idea as I believe it's the right direction for temperature-monitoring applications.