Quote Originally Posted by unclewebb View Post
Venturer: rge's testing showed that there is about a 25C difference between the core temperature at full load and the Tcase temperature which is at the center of the chip. A good heatsink does not get nearly as hot to the touch as one would think. I'll go get my Q6600 up over 90C and take a measurement of the top of my Tuniq. We all need some exact numbers to understand this better.
Good........i hope you will not blow your q6600. However you should implement tcase reading in realtemp.
For tcase temp value i'm using speedfan and Intel Desktop utilities.



Look at this screenshot.


You can notice Intel Desktop utilities reports two system temps: The first Internal system temp is the Tcase temp; the same of Speedfan's "internal temp";
the second system internal temp that reads only Intel D.U i think is the sensor on the motherboard but i'm not sure.
Also notice in speedfan there is a big discrepancy between the temps of the first 2 cores an the last ones.

What do you think about these values?