Today I installed Windows XP on this same system, to see what it would report for the core temperatures. I installed 3 apps for this: SpeedFan, Core Temp, and Real Temp. Here's what they reported while idle and after 10 minutes of high load (all 3 temperature apps reporting simultaneously): SpeedFan: idle 49C, loaded 70C Core Temp: idle 54C, loaded 75C Real Temp: idle 59C, loaded 80C The Core Temp & Real Temp apps explicitly show what they're using for TjMax: 85C and 90C respectively. And from the idle/load temps it looks like SpeedFan is probably using 80C. lm-sensors/coretemp are 10 degrees higher still. So which is correct? Is the TjMax value published by Intel, and/or definitively known to be a certain value? I searched intel.com and the datasheet for my CPU (the E6600) but didn't see it. And this tomshardware piece seems to say that Intel deliberately obfuscates this information (read the update at the bottom): http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-dts-specs,6517.html If SpeedFan is correct, I feel much better about my CPU; but if lm-sensors/coretemp is right, I'm more worried. Thanks, -- Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
