Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

zorzyk: Your screen shot is a perfect example of a recent bug I found. Not a bug in RealTemp but a bug in all core temperature monitoring programs like CoreTemp, RealTemp, SpeedFan and Everest to name a few of the majors. With the cores being numbered from 0 to 3, there is a bug or feature, possibly at the hardware level where the data returned for the center cores, 1 and 2, is getting swapped. This just started happening on my Q6600 the other day.

If you swap the two center cores on your processor you get 46,46 on one set of the Dual cores in your Quad and 42,41 on the other Dual core. When you see a pattern of high, low, high, low that is usually a pretty good sign of this problem.

The easiest way to test your Quad for this issue is to run Prime95 and then go into the Task Manager and use the Set Affinity... option and set Prime to run on core0 only. During this test, core0 and core1 should increase in temperature because they are physically side by side while core2 and core3 should be at a slightly lower temperature. My Q6600 used to show that until one day it switched. Now when I apply a Prime load only to core0, all temperature monitoring software shows core2 heating up while core1 and core3 are now linked and are running cooler. This is wrong and is one of the reasons why Quad data looks very odd sometimes for many users.

Good news is I've come up with a quick way to test for this so RealTemp should be able to adjust for this and automatically report the cores in their proper positions. I'll post a fresh beta later today so Quad core users can test this out.

On most boards, VID will always be equal to MAX VID but if you are using a power saving mode and your motherboard supports it, VID can drop while your MAX VID will stay the same. Check out loonym's screen shot above for an example of this. I thought it was time for software to report both of these values. I'm hoping that MAX VID is the same on all motherboards for a processor while it's VID can vary from one motherboard to the next. Users have previously been trying to compare VID numbers that weren't consistent.

Ovidiu: I don't like how RealTemp looks when using a Dual core either. It would be easy enough to center the data so it shows up in the center two positions and I might do that shortly. A much better solution would be to redesign the interface and create a dual core specific version so there isn't a bunch of wasted space. That's always been the long range plan which will hopefully get done in the near future.

Infa: Not being able to move the GUI is presently a limitation in mini-mode. Fixing that is on my things to do list as well.