For the longest time, the business of reading a CPU’s temperature was one part science and another part voodoo. Inaccurate off-die temperature sensors, inaccurate diodes and a bevy of other annoying issues made retrieving a CPU’s real temperature a pain.
Fortunately for the enthusiasts, Arthur Liberman’s sensational CoreTemp has made it 100% science. CoreTemp reads directly from the on-chip temperature diodes using methods explicitly detailed by Intel and AMD. This means that the temperature CoreTemp reports is exactly what the temperature is.
SpeedFan is dead. Long live SpeedFan!
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