Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

Should you be seeing a 6C to 10C difference? Probably not. Is it normal? Unfortunately it does seem to be the norm.

Intel has talked about slope error but my Cool Down Test is leading me to believe that TJMax isn't nearly as fixed as we all once assumed. There could be as much as 10C of error at TJMax so two similar CPUs or similar cores could report vastly different temperatures. I'm still learning about this stuff so when you get a chance tomorrow post a screen shot of that test. It helps me see what the biggest contributor to the differences in temperatures is.

Thanks T_Flight. There are some nice charts about VID in the documentation but they don't include what register in the CPU you're supposed to read that value from or how you're supposed to interpret it. Anyone with a Core i7 should post a screen shot so I can see if I did good or bad.

Section 2.5 of Volume 1 of the Core i7 Datasheet tells me almost everything I need to know, almost.
http://download.intel.com/design/pro...hts/320834.pdf