Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

Uncle, are the latest updates just cosmetic...

The recent changes are mostly cosmetic and to make it easier for users to use and experiment with the features that are already available in RealTemp. I haven't made too many significant changes to accuracy since the original version. There hasn't been a need to which is a good thing.

One feature I like in the new Settings window is you can open it and click on the Default button to see what your temps would be with no calibration and then click on the Cancel button to restore your calibration settings for an easy A / B comparison. It's also possible to run two instances of RealTemp at the same time with different calibration factors for easy comparisons.

Having digits after the decimal point for choosing calibration factors might help get your idle temperatures another degree closer to the truth but that's not a big difference.

As long as TjMax is selected correctly and you do the calibration as outlined in the docs, your reported temps will be very accurate from idle to TjMax. Since RealTemp's introduction, I've only needed to make one change to TjMax and that was after I tested my E2160 - M0. Intel's docs that show the Thermal Specification of 73.2°C for this processor misled me into believing that TjMax was likely 95°C like similar processors with this Thermal Spec but testing showed that it was only 85°C for my E2160. I quickly fixed that when I saw that error but that was a while ago.

I also made a change somewhere along the way where I added half a degree to my calibration formula to compensate for rounding errors in my calculations.

Once I have the latest beta version finalized and uploaded to the main TechPowerUp site I plan to go back and try some more real world testing with the new features. There isn't a lot of room for improvements in accuracy but testing and proving that on a regular basis needs to be done to convince users that RealTemp can be trusted. I've never seen any testing of any kind from the other core temp monitoring programs. I wonder why?

msgclb: Thanks for posting the official way to handle Fonts in Vista.