Reliable Temp Monitoring Software?

Speed · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:52

Hi Guys,

Just started overclocking my i7 920 to 4Ghz on a UD5, but I'm having some issues with temperature monitoring software. I've got a few open at the moment while running Prime95 and they are not tieing in.

CoreTemp & Realtemp are telling me I'm near 100c. Speedfan is saying around 85c and Gigabyte Easytune 6 is saying just 70c for the CPU, although there are no core measurements just one for the CPU on it's own.

I'm guessing that Speedfan is nearest the mark but can someone suggest others and maybe what they use?

Thanks,

Mark

Speed · 24 Sep 2009 at 21:56

I'll give that a go, here is a screenshot to show what I mean:

http://www.markljlewis.com/overclockedtemps.jpg

Speed · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:04

Right well HW Monitor appears to give the same temps as RealTemp and CoreTemp.

Guess my new IFX-14 isn't mounted correctly, will re-do it in the morning.

Speed · 24 Sep 2009 at 22:22

Temi_D said:
What I've noticed with Gigabyte motherboards is that the speed fan "temp2" is the same as the easytune "cpu" temperature as shown in the screenshot. This is the same case with my GA-P43-ES3 mobo

Yeah spotted that. I've also tried Everest and the temps tie in with CoreTemp and RealTemp. Guess I won't be using Speedfan again.

RJC said:
Oh yes that is a little hot, did not register earlier

Deff have ago at remounting

I did, but then strangely I had those sort of temps with my Intel retail HSF running at stock speeds while using Prime95 max heat option. So maybe the board is mis-reporting the temps, or I have an extra hot chip lol! :confused:

Speed · 24 Sep 2009 at 23:26

Yeah not touched Ram Voltage, so that would be Profile1 on the XMP.

Took vCore down to 1.35v but it did nothing to the temps.

Speed · 25 Sep 2009 at 00:19

game4it said:
Set the timings and volts for the ram manually as per the manafacturers specs.

That's not going to help my temp problem and XMP profiles are manufacturers specs.

Speed · 25 Sep 2009 at 13:33

game4it said:
Yes it will.Overvolting ram will cause extra heat in your case plus on the cpu as the memory controller is on it.
It does still sound like the heasink is not seated right.When you took heatsink off to reseat it was the thermal paste evenly spread?This will tell you if its not making proper contact.

Also,
Have your tried setting bios to default and comparing temps to what you got with the stook cooler to determine if the temp reading are way off?

I can't see it affecting the temp by anymore than +5c to be honest, so I really don't think that's the problem.

I'll give reseating the heatsink a go today, it is not a five minute job in my case however. Also I did notice that one of the mounting brackets was touching or very near touching some of the Caps around the CPU socket, I couldn't see anyway around that problem as mounted the IFX-14 around the other way would mean it would be pointing down. I did check the Thermalright site before I purchased and it said my motherboard, the UD5 was fine for this heatsink so not sure what is going on there.

I did reseat the Intel HSF with AS5 but that made no difference, it was also a real pain to get off as one of the four posts wouldn't come out of the hole so I won't be putting it back on. Felt like I was going to break the board getting it out lol.

As for comparing the BIOS temps to the Windows temps, that's harder than it sounds. In Windows the CPU uses throttling and other heat reducing tech, where as correct me if I'm wrong in BIOS this does not happen, so the idle temps are not compairable. There also isn't a way to load the CPU in BIOS, not to mention that in BIOS there is just one number for the CPU. I guess I could disable all those options but is it really going to tell me anything? I'm not even sure what probe the BIOS uses for CPU, onboard or behind the socket.