Wednesday, February 4th 2009
RealTemp 3.00 Released
RealTemp got its major face-lift today with the introduction of the third major version. RealTemp is a nifty utility used to monitor the temperatures of Intel processors, with a breakdown of temperatures on a per-core and T-junction basis. The application makes use of the digital thermal sensor component Intel Core series processors come with. With version 3.00, RealTemp gets Core i7 friendly, supporting monitoring of its temperatures, including in Turbo Mode, where the software controls frequencies and power of individual processing cores.
The new release adds a host of features including plug-in support for RivaTuner, the ability to report temperatures of NVIDIA graphics cards, updated detection algorithms as per Intel specifications, and several UI improvements. The release covers as many as a hundred changes that include preliminary support for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. For a list of major changes and other information, head over to the RealTemp homepage.
DOWNLOAD: RealTemp 3.00
The new release adds a host of features including plug-in support for RivaTuner, the ability to report temperatures of NVIDIA graphics cards, updated detection algorithms as per Intel specifications, and several UI improvements. The release covers as many as a hundred changes that include preliminary support for the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system. For a list of major changes and other information, head over to the RealTemp homepage.
DOWNLOAD: RealTemp 3.00
33 Comments on RealTemp 3.00 Released
That would be thanks enough.
The ability to do a thermal shutdown based on your GPU temperature is a great new feature for Nvidia owners. You'll thank me someday when your GPU fan craps out.
The only issue in Windows 7 is that the System Tray icons don't get inserted into the system tray in the correct order. Other than that, RealTemp works great. That seems to be a Windows 7 beta issue and hopefully they correct that in the future because the same code works perfect in XP or Vista.
The new CPU Cool Down Test is the easiest way to spot a sticking sensor which is a big problem with the 45nm Core 2 Dual and Quad sensors. Thankfully, the Core i7 sensors are much improved.
Happy temp monitoring.
OnBoard: EasyTune 6 is probably reading a different sensor. Temperatures based on the TCase sensor should be significantly lower than a core temperature reading when running a stress program like Prime95 Small FFTs. Not all motherboards and bios versions have TCase properly calibrated. rge on XtremeSystems poked a hole in his IHS and mounted a calibrated sensor and found when running LinX the difference between TCase and the core temperature approached 25C.
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3378344&postcount=2394
Here's to hoping for many good beers in your future.:toast::toast:
It works fine in 64bit. Post some more details.
Edit: I just read your System Specs. Sorry, it doesn't support AMD.
Maybe in the future if there are enough requests.
I donated 10$. I don't know how many beers that can buy, but the sentiment is - keep doing great work. And I hope that counts.
Thank You!
rge at XtremeSystems did a lot of work and came up with a very accurate method to calibrate these sensors.
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3384504&postcount=2429
One of your sensors might be getting stuck at idle. It would be a good idea to do a CPU Cool Down test at default MHz and core voltage. Post your results and I'll have a look.
Weer: Thank you for donating to project RealTemp. There are enough happy users of RealTemp that if everyone chipped in a couple of bucks then I'd be able to afford to continue to develop this program further or to create other utilities that are useful to the user community. No donation amount is too small.
I'm thinking that the next RealTemp feature or likely a side program will make it a lot easier to do a calibration.
The test can tell me a lot about your sensors but it can't tell me anything if you are doing 101 other things while running this test.
On the documentation page I posted an example of how my Q6600 looks and what the results mean:
www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/docs.php
Marineborn: It supports the Intel Core i7 940 but AMD uses different sensors with different issues. You'll need to use Core Temp for them.
I decided to concentrate on the Intel Core processors. As I said before, if there is enough interest from AMD owners then I will think about writing a version for those users as well.
It's shows about 51C with default settings idle, just like every other program (coretemp, everest) except easytune6. That is with 2400MHz on stock volt E7200. I infrared thermoed the cooler base when computer had been idle for 8 hours and it was within 1 degree of what the motherboard program showed for temp, about 30C, ambient was something like 21C.
I just didn't believe the 51C idle when I got this processor and after the thermo test I don't believe it at all. The ~30c however makes sense, hence I use that temperature. I doubt it's spot on accurate, but it'll do for me.
The motherboard program is just slow starting and has a lot of extra I don't need if I just want to see the processor temperature. Now I can fire up Real Temp and see same temps quickly.
I'm five degrees hotter now then I thought I was :(