Real Temp - New temp program for Intel Core processors

[unclewebb]

It's hard to win. If software shows a bunch of different core temperatures, everyone is suspicious of crappy sensors and if the core temperatures are all the same, everyone is suspicious of crappy software.

Your screen shot shows RealTemp reporting a variety of minimum and maximum temperatures. A maximum of 72C was recorded on 3 of your 4 cores but they all occurred at different times so RealTemp must be reading all 4 sensors and not just a single sensor and then copying that value.

If you want to do some testing, run a single thread of Prime95 Small FFTs and then open up the Task Manager and use Set Affinity... to limit prime95.exe to different threads within your CPU and see how the core temperatures vary. As you move the Prime95 load around, the peak core temperature within the CPU should move around too.

32nm CPUs are tiny so there might not be a huge difference in temperatures. There's not a lot of real estate between the 4 core sensors. One hot spot on a core is going to spread to the other core sensors very quickly. This also might have something to do with what you are seeing.

donmarkoni: I'll put the missing X on the things to do list.

-X-hellfire: Adjustable transparency is an interesting but I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to adding that feature.