Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/...alTempBeta.zip



I've added ATI GPU temperature monitoring to this version. I am using the ADL (AMD Display Library) SDK 2.0 to accomplish this which isn't the most efficient hardware monitoring library.

Update: This seems to work on the 2000, 3000, 4000 and new 5000 series of ATI cards. The above post of my X1950XT was just for an example to show the general layout of the new ATI Information window.

On some GPUs in some situations, the performance of this library is terrible. On slower cards, I wouldn't recommend sampling the ATI GPU temperature sensor more than once every 5 seconds. RealTemp also includes the ability to easily temporarily disable this feature if you want to run any A / B comparisons or benchmarks.

If this new feature works for you without any issues then that's great. If not, you can always turn it off completely by using the INI option:

NoGPU=1

I haven't heard of any problems yet on systems with single GPUs. If you are using a x2 or any unique CrossFire version then some feedback would be great. RealTemp is designed to report the highest temperature of the hottest GPU in CrossFire mode in the button on the main GUI. This button opens up another window where you are supposed to be able to monitor each GPU individually. With multi monitors it might label things funny like, GPU 1, GPU 2, GPU 3, GPU 4 but if you have two GPUs in your system then GPU 1 GPU 2 should belong to the first GPU and GPU 3 GPU 4 should belong to the second GPU. I wish I had some more time and some actual ATI hardware to test on but I've had to wing it because my new 5750 crapped out half way through development. I decided to get a refund rather than try my luck again. I might wait for a 5850 next time I'm feeling lucky.

On Nvidia systems, RealTemp can report the GPU temperatures for each GPU in SLI mode but if you are not in SLI mode, then it can't report both GPUs. That's a work in progress.

One user had an ATI card as his main card and an Nvidia card as his second card. RealTemp can't correctly handle situations like that either. It's one or the other at the moment.

I added another INI option that might help a little in the above situation:

NoATIGPU=1

That might allow only the Nvidia GPU to be detected and reported in RealTemp so you can choose what one you want to see.
If I had some more hardware to recreate the infinite number of combinations I could probably do better but I don't.

If this new feature is of any use to you then post a screen shot.