ICD 7 Results Thread

[Stormcrow]

Speedfan gives me temps of around -35C, so I'd take it's reading with a giant rock of salt.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

Speedfan gives me temps of around -35C, so I'd take it's reading with a giant rock of salt.

LOL, I've heard stories of Speedfan not giving the good values, but that's pretty crazy.

[Stormcrow]

It also causes the entire system to crash on my 590 SLI board.

[screwballl]

it all depends on your board and CPU... on my systems, none of them have any problems with any of the temperature programs except my M7VIG board. With speedfan, it still reads the CPU temp properly but everything else is messed up. Otherwise it doesn't matter what program I use on my Core2 system they read properly and reliably across any given program. CoreTemp, Speedfan, RealTemp, TAT, Everet...

[polobunny]

Haha I wonder what that "system" sensor is monitoring. :P
It seems to be hard to find a reliable core & CPU temperature monitoring application lately, with all the new cores Intel churns out and the very little information they give away (if any!). I guess you're better off not being bothered about it if your system is stock and in a decent environment.
If it's overclocked then you have to lurk around, read a bunch of stuff, go slowly and don't go crazy. :P

[Stormcrow]

I tend to look at the temps reported in the BIOS during overclocking, and add about about 15 degrees to the idle result for an estimation on load temps for my Core 2, for my Athlon I add 20. Seems to work right within the range the software gives, if the idle temp is report as 50+ I back off the voltages. Of course this is redneck monitoring, you'd be much better off using an IR probe then anything else.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

I tend to look at the temps reported in the BIOS during overclocking, and add about about 15 degrees to the idle result for an estimation on load temps for my Core 2, for my Athlon I add 20. Seems to work right within the range the software gives, if the idle temp is report as 50+ I back off the voltages. Of course this is redneck monitoring, you'd be much better off using an IR probe then anything else.

You would blend right in with Panda ghetto mods.
It would probably be better, but who wants to spend so much only to know temperatures. :P

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by oldman_gamer

Theres quite a diff in the 2 programs.Room temp of 68F.(my build)

Much different huh? The readings of 32 Degrees C. on both cores (about 89.6 Deg. F.) make much more sense. Both core temperatures are about the same which figures in if both cores are pretty much at idle.

Software based programs like speed fan rely on their ability to not just read from the SMBus but also their ability to correctly identify the chip on the motherboard that is reading from "probe" devices. Unless the software routine can get that right and has the data for that chip the readings will be erroneous.

The problem is that not long ago only several chips were used by motherboard manufacturers to get temperatures and control fan speeds etc. on the motherboard. The number has grown considerably making necessary constant updates to the software.

Ron

[oldman_gamer]

We should email Freddy with these findings...

Here are my sons readings with his new build using the IC7D .

Antec900 / OCZ Stealth Etreme 600w / IntelC2Q6600 / EVGA 8800GT / DFI Dark Lanparty / Seagate Cuda 7200.11 500GB 32MB cache / Asus Triton 77 .

temps in celcius : 26/28/20/25 (coretemp)

[stinger608]

As many have seen, this TIM really shines through under a load!!!!

Artic Silver: Idle=31-33C Load=42-45C

IC7: Idle=28-31C Load=35-37C!!!!

That is a 5C degree drop in temps at the narrowest point!!!!!


And this is after running the TIM for over 2 weeks now

Awesome thermal compound IC Diamond

Oh yea, this is running an
Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe Wireless
AMD 5200 OC'd at 10%
Asus Silent Knight II
2GB Corsair XMS2