Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

TL1000S: My personal opinion of your processor is that the DTS on one of your cores is stuck and the other is suffering from the "reporting way too low" problem that Brama had a few pages ago. If that is the case then it's impossible for RealTemp or any other program to give you accurate idle temperatures without a thorough IR thermometer calibration. I still believe that TjMax=95C across the entire E8x00 series but I'd need a big box of processors from different batches and my IR gun to definitively prove it. For some reason, I don't think Intel would be in any mood to share after seeing my Test Sensors feature.

rge: The funny thing about my E2160 is that it has the higher Thermal Specification of 73.2C but all of my testing leads me to believe that TjMax is only 85C. My original E6400 had a TjMax=85C and a Thermal Specification = 61.4°C. I lost faith in trying to figure out TjMax based on Thermal Specification after this.

RealTemp does assume TjMax=85C for the B3 Q6600 vs 95C for the G0 Q6600. They were ready to hang me on one forum for this theory but no one has stepped up, yet, to prove me wrong. A user on XS complained about this but after he did some testing, he wasn't able to show me anything to contradict my original TjMax assumption. A B3 Quad contains two B2 dual cores which have a TjMax=85C so I've assumed that the B3 would be the same. If someone wants to loan me one I'll be happy to do a thorough test.

TL1000S: Does a (++) Idle Calibration get your idle temps close to believable? This feature is not exact but I thought for you processor it might be pretty close on the one core that isn't stuck. Show us a RealTemp screen shot vs your water temp if you can.