Utility to obtain CPU temperature

[Synapse Syndrome]

guarantee, the Pentium class processors are KNOWN to overheat-

No they aren't. You are just talking about the later Pentium 4 types.
Earlier Athlons used to run very hot, and they did not even shut down
automatically and fried themselves!

ss.

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Currently Intel has a lead in the upper end, before that AMD
did, then Intel. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Remind me when AMD had a clear lead, apart from when the Athlon64 was faster
and more efficient than the P4? Not saying that you are wrong, but I do not
know of any other times. Maybe you are talking from price/performance
perspective on K6 vs PIII? Surely the Coppermine and Tualatin PIIIs were
better CPUs though..

ss.

 

[kony]

Remind me when AMD had a clear lead, apart from when the Athlon64 was faster
and more efficient than the P4? Not saying that you are wrong, but I do not
know of any other times. Maybe you are talking from price/performance
perspective on K6 vs PIII? Surely the Coppermine and Tualatin PIIIs were
better CPUs though..

ss.

K6-III was faster excluding floating point, as was early
Athlon when considering price (always relevant since barely
anybody buys the high end. I also preferred Coppermine and
Tualatin Celeron & P3 but not for the obvious reasons,
rather than they had more overclocking margin and on
average, superior chipsets for their motherboards. Seems
most of the industry outside of server integrators ignored
Tualatins though, they were all caught up in the
underwhelming P4 when it first came out.

 

[kony]

No they aren't. You are just talking about the later Pentium 4 types.
Earlier Athlons used to run very hot, and they did not even shut down
automatically and fried themselves!

Athlons did not fry themselves without some overt system
builder mistake like not putting a heatsink on, choosing
some $3 'sink for a 50W chip so the fan failed, etc.
Granted it would've been nice if they had a thermal trip
feature at that point, but it really wasn't that big of a
deal, who really wants to have to depend on a system
shutting off instead of never doing so by building it right
in the first place?

 

[Tony Houghton]

Athlons did not fry themselves without some overt system
builder mistake like not putting a heatsink on, choosing
some $3 'sink for a 50W chip so the fan failed, etc.
Granted it would've been nice if they had a thermal trip
feature at that point, but it really wasn't that big of a
deal, who really wants to have to depend on a system
shutting off instead of never doing so by building it right
in the first place?

Even if fans did fail, short of the heatsink faling right off, did they
really fry or just crash? I think they tended to accidentally save
themselves by drawing less power while crashed.

 

[kony]

Even if fans did fail, short of the heatsink faling right off, did they
really fry or just crash? I think they tended to accidentally save
themselves by drawing less power while crashed.

Yes they'd crash if overly hot but perpetually overheating
due to failed fan damages the chip still. What happens if a
system crashes? It gets turned off or reset and tried again
to the extent it will eventually be cool enough to run then
overheat and crash and the cycle continues.

 

[pg]

Are you certain your Mobo supports temp sensing? Have you looked for
sensors?

The BIOS does have a section that shows the CPU temp, so my guess is
the motherboard does support temp sensing.

 

[Signal]

Does anybody know of any temp program that's better than Speedfan and
displays continuous readings in the system tray the way Speedfan does?

I've used Speedfan for several years now and like its versatility and
convenience, but am starting to doubt it with recent charges of
inaccuracy.

CoreTemp

You would be advised to read this article :

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum...k/forum/221745-11-core-quad-temperature-guide

 

[ProfGene]

For overclocking maybe, but not as a stock processor right out of the box.

I have one case that came with a heat sensing wire that you attach
directly to the heat sink and it displays a number on the front of the
case but a technician where I bought it says it is not that accurate.