Sometimes misidentifies processor, and inconsistent results?
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:49 pm
Hi! I have been using CoreTemp for quite a while on my old machine, and when I built a new machine last fall I installed it too. I sometimes get odd results. I've taken screenshots to try to find out what might be going on.
The processor is a Phenom 9950 BE, and has a huge Scythe Mugen heat sink in a well ventilated case. Usually when I start up, I see something like this:
Which I think seems fairly believable.
But sometimes when I start up, CoreTemp shows me something like this instead:
The computer isn't doing anything different. I can't see any reason why there should be a 20 degree difference on some start-ups vs others.
Also, I just noticed that some of these weird results mistakenly identify my processor as an Opteron 1300 BE "Budapest":
I really like CoreTemp, and plan to continue using it, but it would sure be nice to figure out why it starts up weirdly 5% of the time. Is there any more information I can get that would help identify what might be going wrong?
-k
The processor is a Phenom 9950 BE, and has a huge Scythe Mugen heat sink in a well ventilated case. Usually when I start up, I see something like this:
Which I think seems fairly believable.
But sometimes when I start up, CoreTemp shows me something like this instead:
The computer isn't doing anything different. I can't see any reason why there should be a 20 degree difference on some start-ups vs others.
Also, I just noticed that some of these weird results mistakenly identify my processor as an Opteron 1300 BE "Budapest":
I really like CoreTemp, and plan to continue using it, but it would sure be nice to figure out why it starts up weirdly 5% of the time. Is there any more information I can get that would help identify what might be going wrong?
-k