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Hesky82 · 2 Mar 2008 at 14:50

BoomAM said:
, plus, even in single/dual threaded apps, its still a bonus.

how could it though? :confused:

Ive gone from a q6600 to an e8400 and pretty much everything runs better on this faster dual core, even some so called multithreaded applications.

How are you reading your temps?? Pretty much all wolfdales have incorrectly functioning temps sensors, some read very high some read very low and some even read one core high and the other one low. There a little screwed up. Like furnace says, its more than likely inccorrect that reading.

yawa · 2 Mar 2008 at 15:29

furnace said:
But even so, 18+15 is still a very respectable 33'c. But I really wouldn't go trusting an 18'c reading! It seems waaaay too low to be true, especially if you're using the stock cooler. Perhaps someone who knows a bit more can fill me in here!

Im using the Tuniq Tower 120 and using the ASUS motherboard tool to record temp.

Any recommendations for something that might be a bit more accurate?

Hesky82 · 2 Mar 2008 at 16:55

coretemp is usually the most realistic and accurate temp monitoring application as it reads the on die sensors, but 95% of the time its readings are incorrect with Wolfdales chips. that’s really the only major annoyance regarding these cpus.

BoomAM · 2 Mar 2008 at 17:39

Hesky82 said:
how could it though? Ive gone from a q6600 to an e8400 and pretty much everything runs better on this faster dual core, even some so called multithreaded applications.

Quite easyily.
Having certain single threaded apps set to run on specific cores can help quite significantely. As good as dual cores are, once you get into having loads of apps open at once, they all start fighting for CPU time.
Quad cores dont have that problem as much as duals.

As said, its still an excellent choice, but i would have personally picked at a quad, with an eye to the future.