Possible inaccurate temperature reading?

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KyleShubert
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Possible inaccurate temperature reading?

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Hello,

My name is Kyle and while I have looked around for a CPU temperature monitor, yours definitely has THE setup I am looking for in regards to the simplicity of it and the neat system tray icon it offers. However, I ran into two problems that I couldn't get past. I have compiled the images within this MS Paint compilation. All relevant information regarding the hardware in my rig is in the image.

First Problem:
The top left image has my temperature read at 39ºC when my BIOS, Hmonitor, and Speedfan all have it reading around 50ºC (I restarted my rig to check the temperature in the BIOS). With those three agreeing with each other, either CoreTemp is wrong or I simply don't have it setup right (I haven't changed anything but the system tray setup) and am missing something.

Second Problem:
The bottom left picture shows the System Tray Settings, and the option to display all of my cores is grayed out and I can't select it. Again, I am probably missing something here.

Again, what the program can possibly offer is exactly what I am looking for, but it unfortunately isn't cooperating. However, the fact that there are forums dedicated to the program goes to show the effort behind the program itself. Hopefully we can find a solution, even if it happens to be a problem with me :(

Thanks in advance for any replies (from anyone).

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Re: Possible inaccurate temperature reading?

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Core Temp shows a "relative" temperature on Phenom processors, it's not an absolute value. There's an offset, which is unknown that must be applied to interpret the actual CPU temp from the sensor.
You'll notice that SpeedFan also reads 39C on one of the "Core" fields.
Regarding your second question. The Phenom CPUs only have one thermal sensor per processor, therefore you can't select view all cores since there is only a single reading, the feature was disable to prevent confusion and bugs with the program when running on a Phenom CPU.
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Re: Possible inaccurate temperature reading?

Post by KyleShubert »

Alright. Thanks for the help.

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