burebista had a question for me. He is seeing some inconsistent results when comparing the RivaTuner built in load meter to what the RealTemp plug-in is saying during gaming.

The RealTemp Load meter is based on using internal timers within the CPU and I think that it is a little different than how traditional load levels are calculated.

I'm not sure what method is more accurate but the RealTemp Load meter seems to be accurately displaying the Load on my Q6600.
On a mobile processor with individual cores entering deeper C3/C4 sleep states, this method might not be accurate. I haven't tested this yet.

On my Q6600, I ran a Prime95 Small FFTs test and increased the load from idle to 1 thread, 2 threads, 3 threads, 4 threads and then back to idle.
Here's how the log file looks. For this CPU, the load looks like it is being correctly reported. Task Manager will show the load bouncing around from core to core but the average reported load is as expected.

Code:
  DATE     TIME   C0 C1 C2 C3 LOAD%
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02/10/09 15:33:59 33 33 32 33 2.7
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02/10/09 15:34:01 32 32 33 32 0.6
02/10/09 15:34:02 33 33 32 33 1.9
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