Core Temp and Intel Power Gadget

[ney2x]

Hi! I just installed Intel Power Gadget 2.0, Core Temp 1.0 RC3 and Core Temp Gadget. Core Temp and Intel Power Gadget do not display the same load especially the CPU Frequency and Power (watts), I already adjust the temperature polling interval to 250ms-500ms but still not showing the same. Core Temp always shows Frequency of 1600 MHz and Power load of 11-15 watts during idle. I also installed RealTemp 3.70 and to my surprise, RealTemp and Intel Power Gadget are the same display of CPU Frequency and Power (watts) load. Anyways, my system is Core i7 2600K, 8GB DDR3 RAM and so on... Thanks.

[The Coolest]

This has been probably discussed many times before, but here goes.

There are several ways of reporting frequency. Intel chips have been a mess until SandyBridge in which the "current" frequency is written into registers, and can be easily accessed.
Core Temp uses this way of reporting the CPU frequency.
Intel's tool and RealTemp use a different algorithm to calculate CPU frequency based on the active clock cycles. As you can see from their readings, you get uneven multipliers.
It has been discussed and argued for both camps in the past, and in the end if was decided that the easiest way for Core Temp to go is with is what it uses right now. If there was a request by users to change this behavior, it can be done with ease.
I have noticed some "inconsistencies" with the power usage reporting between Core Temp and Intel's gadget, but there was no difference between RealTemp and Core Temp on my system.
Polling rates and polling times all influence the readings you get, so even if you run two instances of Core Temp, or RealTemp you will notice difference between the two instances of the same program.
Since there is only 1 single algorithm to calculate power draw, there is no right or wrong way to do it.
My suggestion would be to start a Prime95 or better yet Linpack stress test, to max out power consumption, and then you should notice that power draw should be much closer between all of the applications.

[ney2x]

Thank you so much for your thorough explanations. Just a little request, can you make Core Temp Gadget to show the over-all Core/CPU Load? And most importantly, is there any plans to make a GPU plugin so that I can ditch my other gadget (GPU Observer). Thanks in advance

[The Coolest]

In the current version you can set it up to display the global CPU load as a graph.
There are no more plans for new gadget, as Microsoft has decided to cut gadgets out of Windows 8 completely, from what I've read online.