gHacks technology news » core http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Monitor CPU Core Temperatures http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/25/monitor-cpu-core-temperatures/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/25/monitor-cpu-core-temperatures/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:26:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3883 I lost count of how many applications in Windows provide the functionality to display the temperature of the CPU. I have been using Speedfan for this purpose for well over two years by now but have to admit that Speedfan does not make it that easy to find out which temperature belongs to which component in the computer. The temperatures are named Temp1, Temp2 and Temp3. The main benefit of Speedfan is that it also monitors hard drive temperatures if the hard drives of the computer support that.

Core Temp concentrates on the cpu, the central processing unit of the computer. It can read the temperature of several cores if the cpu is a multi-core cpu. While this is not a unique feature Core Temp does its best to display the temperatures in the best possible way. The software provides an easy interface that displays all information in one screen.

One great feature for overclockers and new PCs is the logging feature that logs the temperature of the CPU and its cores so that it becomes easy to analyse the temperature changes over time. I still prefer to use Speedfan because it provides additional information that are important to me. If you just want to analyse and check the cpu you are best of with Core Temp though.

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Another reason might me memory usage. Core Temp uses a third of the memory that Speedfan uses when running. (3MB compared to 9MB).

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