No Accurate Way of Measuring Temp for C2D and C2Q Series?

[geokilla]

I've been meaning to post this for a while, but I keep on forgetting about it.

AnandTech

More than a few programs have been released over the last few years, each claiming to accurately report these DTS values in real-time. The truth is that none can be fully trusted as the Tjunction values utilized in these transformations may not always be correct. Moreover, Intel representatives have informed us that these as-of-yet unpublished Tjunction values may actually vary from model to model - sometimes even between different steppings - and that the temperature response curves may not be entirely accurate across the whole reporting range. Since all of today's monitoring programs have come to incorrectly assume that Tjunction values are a function of the processor family/stepping only, we have no choice but to call everything we thought we had come to know into question. Until Intel decides to publish these values on a per-model basis, the best these DTS readings can do for us is give a relative indication of each core's remaining thermal margin, whatever that may be.

[DMB2000uk]

Well that basically screws any form of reliable accurate temperature monitoring then.

I guess the best you can do is keep the CPU as cool as possible, and hope for the best.

Dan

[ibleet]

A relative thermal margin is good enough for now.

[Kougar]

I thought it a little interesting Anandtech neglected (Or didn't know) about this alternative: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... ?p=2809778

Real Temp basically avoids this issue to begin with. If you want to know more, definitely give his post a read.