Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

Nice, legible block font for the temps in the tray. Easier to read than CoreTemp, at least on my display.

Anyone running this program is obviously interested in their temps so I figure I'd start with an easy to read font. If anyone wants a small font about the size that CoreTemp uses then I will create a small font option as well.

And, the full spec now appears for my CPU. Instead of Intel Quad, it says Intel Quad QX6700.

I always get angry when programs don't seem to recognize my hardware properly! Blame this problem on Intel. For some reason, on some of their processors they decided to leave out the model number in the processor name string of information that is burnt into the chip. Start up CPU-Z and look in the Specification window and compare your processor to other users. RealTemp took the easy way out originally and simply extracted the model number out of this data. When I saw some recent screen shots I decided to go back and add some code to help out the suffering B2/B3 owners. If anyone else has a processor that isn't recognized properly yet then just PM me a CPU-Z / RealTemp screen shot so I can get it fixed up.

you forgot to make a note in the INI that I need to reboot to get this new version to work!

That's why we call this beta software! You guys get to test things out before I release this version to the masses over on the main TechPowerUp site. I noticed that you are using Vista. I didn't need to re-boot when using XP. The coding technique I used probably dates back at least 10 years so I'm just happy that it works. Could you try disabling the tray icon feature by using IconShow=0, running the program, exiting and then change IconShow back and see if the icons display properly. At the moment I'm going to blame all your problems on your mail icon. It looks suspicious!

I was playing around with the latest version of RMClock 2.35 and I was having problems with it leaving icons in the tray and not closing down properly. RealTemp doesn't seem to have any issues that way but I still need to go back and test every imaginable thing a user can do to try and screw things up.

Hybrid SyntaX: Your E6600 is an early revision B2 processor which uses a TjMax=85C. All temperature monitoring programs agree with this so you won't see much difference from one program to the next.

Your processor only has 2 cores so there is no need to use either:
Idle2=1
Idle3=2

Those are for adjusting a Quad core processor. You need to spend some time reading over the documentation before setting any Idle calibration factors. It fully explains what needs to be done to increase the accuracy of RealTemp at idle.

http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/docs.php

clokker: Are you using Windows Vista as well? I might have to use more than 2 colors to increase compatibility.