Setting max temperature.

CoreTemp-User315 · Post by **CoreTemp-User315** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:39 am

How do I change the overheat temperature threshold?

Tj. Max is set to 212 F but this is not correct, my machine halts at around 208 F (there's built-in protection on the motherboard), so the overheat protection is not useful. My goal is to execute a program that throttles down the clock speed at around 200 F (I noticed I can change the shutdown temperature, but shutting down the machine when its about to overheat is about as useful as letting it halt...).

Thanks.

Edit: BTW, assuming you can set the overheat threshold, a nice feature to have would be the ability to execute another program when the temperature dropped back below a certain threshold (so you could, for example, increase the clock speed again).

Edit 2: Oh neat, I just read on the web site that Core Temp puts the information in shared memory. Has anybody written a utility to adjust clock speeds depending on the temperature? If not I will write one.

Post by **The Coolest** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:23 pm

Regarding the original post, the next version (which is hopefully coming soon) will have a rewritten/redesign overheat protection screen with better control.
1) I have no plans of adding an option to execute another program when temps normalize.
2) I'm not aware of any such software.

CoreTemp-User315 · Post by **CoreTemp-User315** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:09 am

I wrote an application that uses Core Temp's API to monitor the temperature and switch active power profiles at a certain threshold (to cool the CPU temperature down by throttling back the clock if it gets too hot). It's been working really well.

If you want to host it on your web site, I will send it to you with source, once I make a version with a nice GUI instead of the hacky console version I have right now!