On 7/30/07, Florian Echtler <echtler at in.tum.de> wrote: > As I have a passively-cooled CPU, I am a bit nervous about temperatures, > so I'm curious if somebody can explain the difference (and which one is > closer to reality ;-). The w83627dhg chip reads the temperature from a sensors which is put somewhere near (under?) the socket of the CPU. coretemp reads the two sensors inside the CPU. Luca