Tempretures, Core Temp and real temp

gupott · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:14

Hi there,

Just built a new machine and my overclock is now pretty stable, running a Q9300 at 455x7.5 with cpuz reporting my volts as 1.304 but I think this is higher in the bios, more like 1.4v. Anyway, I am doing a few things at the moment, playing football manager, converting vob files to divx and ripping some cd to itunes. I don't appear to be having any stability issues, but I am running coretemp and its reporting 71,69,65,63 on the cores and real temp is recording 60,63,56,55. So my first question is which do I believe? and secondly are these temps too high?

My case is closed and I have a couple of intake fans blowing over the hard drive and a noctua nh-u12p.

Cheers
Rosscouk

mattbrown91 · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:15

Personally, I'd believe Coretemp.

Temps are a little warm.

netby · 7 Jun 2008 at 16:25

Hi mate

try the Intel TAT

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/392/Intel_Thermal_Analysis_Tool.html

btw do the workload test at 100%,in all the cores,so you could find if your overclock is stable

gupott · 7 Jun 2008 at 17:14

Hi netby, I downloaded it and had a problem, its says invalid processor, terminating tool.

Any ideas?

I also heard that coretemp reports higher because of a higer tj Max.

I only have one fan on the noctua, is it worth sticking another on it, in a kind of push pull formation?

netby · 7 Jun 2008 at 18:06

I do not know, but my cpu is a core2duo , I think TAT is also good for quadcores

I did download it from the German server

gupott · 13 Jun 2008 at 23:19

this doesnt work on my quad.

So which do people think is the more accurate, CoreTemp or RealTemp?

netby · 14 Jun 2008 at 00:16

what is your chipset?
i think it only works on Intel chipsets :confused:

TheMagic1an · 14 Jun 2008 at 01:48

rosscouk said:
this doesnt work on my quad.

So which do people think is the more accurate, CoreTemp or RealTemp?

RealTemp is correct for 45nm CPUs since it puts the TJ.Max to 95, which is supposed to be right. All other temp programs read it as 105 which is why coreTemp is higher. If you want you can change coreTemp to 95.

I believe Real Temp.... under prime load my heatsink is hardly warm and coreTemp reports 60/60/58/58, but RealTemp reports 50/50/48/48 which seems far more believable since i can hardly feel any warm air.