Speedfan, or HMonitor/CoreTemp I have my E6300 Oc'd at 2.42Ghz(345x7) and I am cooling it with an OCZ Vanquisher. I've used Speedfan for ages, and it has said it was idling at 22C (My basement is rather chilly). I downloaded CT and HM to try them out. They both say 37C, which I think is a little exaggerated. I'm downloading Everest now, to get another opinion. Mind you I use AS5, and have great airflow in my case. And its not dusty. My Hdd's are around 34C, and the Northbridge/board is at 32C, and ambient is around 15C?(59F) Everest doesn't like my ICH8 Northbridge, and it wont tell me what my CPU temps are. I do know that I have a 30% OC evidentially
CoreTemp is most likely correct; it's a common problem for certain programs to read Core2 processors too low by 15c. If you prefer to use SpeedFan, you can set an offset of 15 in the options. This is because Core2 processors don't actually report a temperature, they report how many degrees are left before the chip throttles to prevent damage. Intel won't release the exact throttle values, but the best estimates are 85c and 100c, depending on the specific chip. Some programs still haven't been updated to correct for this, so occasionally you'll have to add the offset yourself. There is a remote chance that CoreTemp is incorrectly adding the offset, as I don't recall the E6300 as being among those with the problem. However, I think CoreTemp is generally quite good about this and more likely to be correct.
At that speed, 37 is more likely than 22. And out of all the utilities I have tried, Speedfan was the one that didn't agree.
Sorry, I didn't remember if it was 7 or 9. Thats what the question mark was for. Edited: Edited original post.
Awww.... darn you super toad. I was going to inform him of his incorrect math. lol anyways 345 x 9 = 3.105GHz
