Which temperature monitor is reliable?

M

Meddi

Geek Trainee
Hi, I have a weird issue thats probably common among all you PC users but here goes. I have Speedfan loaded up and my CPU temperature is 37C reported by the motherboard and 29C in a thing called Core.

When I fire up a game the motherboard will report 45C and the core will report 37C or around that area. So which one has the correct temperature reading? Or is it two different spots they read from? I mean the surface and core of the CPU.

Thanks in advanced.

AMD64 3200+ by the way, old stuff but still kicking :)

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If you want reliable software temps, then good luck. Speedfan is pretty good, as well as CoreTemp (for Intel Core 2-based CPUs and up) are good software monitors, but if you want accuracy, you'll need to look to a hardware-based monitor. From what [H]ard|OCP has said in their heatsink reviews, Intel seems to use a probe after drilling out part of the heatspreader on the CPU packaging. (I don't know the exact procedure, but it's out there.)
 
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