CPU temp monitoring software

I'm finding that on my E1505, i8kfangui and speedfan is extremely inaccurate when monitoring temps and RM cpu clock utility is more accurate. For example, i8k and speedfan says my cpu is at 49 Celsius at the moment, and rm cpu is telling me its at 64 Celsius. This is during idle. I think I trust rm cpu more than i8kfangui and speedfan because i8k/speedfan seems to also miscalculate other hardware temps as well. Anyone else notice this?

 

i suggest you give hwinfo32 a try.
either it'll work "out of the box" or you can ask for support : http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...uestions-reports-suggestions-discussions.html (the author is monitoring this thread)

 

It's a nice program, but it is also reading cpu temps the same as i8kfangui.

 

Try HWMonitor? Although I'm going to say that I'd trust i8k's temp more than RM's temp. At least in my experience RMClock always reports temperatures that don't agree with most other monitoring software.

Furthermore, just given what I've seen in other E1505s, idle temps are typically closer to 50C than 60C, so unless yours runs fairly hot, I see even less reason to believe RMClock.

 

Hmm, hwmonitor/pc wizard are both reading cpu temps same as RM. This is so confusing. It seems like one of these groups are reading a different temp.

 

There are probably a number of different sets of sensors that can be used to read temps and there are differences in readings between them. If you believe that one set of sensors (rm/hwmonitor) is more precise use those.
I recommended hwinfo because you can actually talk to the author and ask him to change the program to read the correct set of sensors (or report both maybe)

 

In case you see the temperatures in HWiNFO32 under a "DELL EC" sensor, I would trust them since they come directly from DELL internal monitoring subsystem (DELLDIAG). If you run the DELL Diag tool you should get the same values.