Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system. You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
- Fix: Incorrect clock speeds reported on some systems. - Fix: At startup Core Temp shows 0 (?) or 21 (?) on AMD K8 series. - Fix: Turion MK series recognition was wrong. - Fix: Properly detect Atom and Core i7 engineering samples. - Fix: Tri-Core AMD CPUs incorrectly shown as having only 2 cores and 2 threads in 64bit Core Temp binary. - Fix: System tray text was off center. - Fix: Penryn (mobile Core 2) processors reported as having 85C TjMax instead of 90C. - Fix: Settings window would open centered, and sometimes out of the desktop area. - Fix: System tray icon very small in Windows 2000/XP/2003. - Fix: AMD Athlon X2 4x50e series detected as 3x50e. - Fix: Add support for Mobile Athlon 64 X2 TK-xx series and Turion 64 MK-xx series. - Fix: Workaround added for when Core Temp fails to find supported CPUs on Phenom based systems. - Fix: PROCHOT signal from Intel CPUs was not picked up correctly. - Fix: Core Temp would start out of the desktop area, and the main Window couldn't be seen/accessed. - Fix: AMD K8 series incorrectly reports temperature at over 200C (CPU bug, workaround applied). - Fix: High/low temperatures would be reversed when "Show distance to TjMax" was enabled. - Fix: Clicking "Defaults" button in settings would enable logging when it should be disabled by default. - Fix: "Show highest temp of each CPU" systemtray icon configuration sometimes reports duplicate readings.
- Add: Completely new code for processor speed detection. - Add: A comprehensive processor information windows (F3 or Tools --> System information). - Add: Thermal protection mechanism. (Look at Options menu) - Add: Mini mode for GUI. (Double click anywhere to switch between modes) - Add: Per core temperature offset adjustment. (Look at Options menu) - Add: Screenshots are now taken in the lossless but very compact PNG format. - Add: User defined text colors for main Window. (Options --> Settings) - Add: Show high/low temperatures. (Press F6 or the Tools menu to reset values) - Add: On/Off switch for G15 applet in Tools menu. - Add: Running several instances of Core Temp is now possible (enable in Settings).
- Change: Temp turns Orange when temperature is over TControl, and Red when CPU is thottling/critical. - Change: Reorganized menu. - Change: TjMax for mobile Atom processors changed to 90C. - Change: "Lion" codename for AMD Turion was changed to "Griffin". - Change: Completely dropped support for older Windows NT OS, Windows XP or up is required. (For Windows 2000: download GDIPlus.dll here DLL-files.com - gdiplus.dll, free download)
File Description: This version includes digitally signed drivers for use with Vista x64 and Windows 7 x64.
This version fixes the frequency problem which plagued versions 0.99.4 and 0.99.5 by introducing a new method to measure CPU speed. Core Temp now measures the bus speed of the system, multiplies it by each of the cores' multiplier and reports very accurate clock speed. To test it further please go to Settings (Option menu) and check "On the fly bus clk. detection", this will recalculate the bus speed with every Core Temp update (by default it only updates the multiplier). On Core i7 systems with CPU multiplier set higher than x25 the best way to use Core Temp is to also check "Use alt. frequency detection" in the Settings box. That way the multiplier is derived from CPU speed / bus speed.
List of changes since the last official release:
Version 0.99.5 (Build 20) - 12th March, 2009
- Fix: Incorrect clock speeds reported on some systems. - Fix: At startup Core Temp shows 0 (?) or 21 (?) on AMD K8 series. - Fix: Turion MK series recognition was wrong. - Fix: Properly detect Atom and Core i7 engineering samples. - Fix: Tri-Core AMD CPUs incorrectly shown as having only 2 cores and 2 threads in 64bit Core Temp binary. - Fix: System tray text was off center. - Fix: Penryn (mobile Core 2) processors reported as having 85C TjMax instead of 90C. - Fix: Settings window would open centered, and sometimes out of the desktop area. - Fix: System tray icon very small in Windows 2000/XP/2003. - Fix: AMD Athlon X2 4x50e series detected as 3x50e. - Fix: Add support for Mobile Athlon 64 X2 TK-xx series and Turion 64 MK-xx series. - Fix: Workaround added for when Core Temp fails to find supported CPUs on Phenom based systems. - Fix: PROCHOT signal from Intel CPUs was not picked up correctly. - Fix: Core Temp would start out of the desktop area, and the main Window couldn't be seen/accessed. - Fix: AMD K8 series incorrectly reports temperature at over 200C (CPU bug, workaround applied). - Fix: High/low temperatures would be reversed when "Show distance to TjMax" was enabled. - Fix: Clicking "Defaults" button in settings would enable logging when it should be disabled by default. - Fix: "Show highest temp of each CPU" systemtray icon configuration sometimes reports duplicate readings.
- Add: Completely new code for processor speed detection. - Add: A comprehensive processor information windows (F3 or Tools --> System information). - Add: Thermal protection mechanism. (Look at Options menu) - Add: Mini mode for GUI. (Double click anywhere to switch between modes) - Add: Per core temperature offset adjustment. (Look at Options menu) - Add: Screenshots are now taken in the lossless but very compact PNG format. - Add: User defined text colors for main Window. (Options --> Settings) - Add: Show high/low temperatures. (Press F6 or the Tools menu to reset values) - Add: On/Off switch for G15 applet in Tools menu. - Add: Running several instances of Core Temp is now possible (enable in Settings).
- Change: Temp turns Orange when temperature is over TControl, and Red when CPU is thottling/critical. - Change: Reorganized menu. - Change: TjMax for mobile Atom processors changed to 90C. - Change: "Lion" codename for AMD Turion was changed to "Griffin". - Change: Completely dropped support for older Windows NT OS, Windows XP or up is required. (For Windows 2000: download GDIPlus.dll here http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?gdiplus)
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