CoreTemp or abit's uGuru?

[Gaiden133]

What program should I be using to monitor the temps of my core?

CoreTemp reports on load are:
Core #0: 65c
Core #1: 64c
Core #2: 57c
Core #3: 58c

and Abit's uGuru on load reports:
54c.

Which is more reliable in this case? As someone said to take the temps from coretemp from 0 & 1, which means there's a 10-13 deg celcius delta between the two.

 

[ataqer]

As far as I know, CoreTemp reports the actual values from the DTS (digital thermal sensor) embedded in the chip itself. uGuru only reports from a motherboard sensor near the CPU.

 

[Gaiden133]

Hmm, good to know. Because the temps reported from uGuru are really similar to the ones in BIOS.. so I have no idea which program to trust at his point

 

[ataqer]

The uGuru utility grabs its values from the same source as the BIOS does.

Notice that you access the BIOS' temperature display through the menu item called "uGuru" .

It's not really a matter of trust, just a matter of what kind of temperature reading you want. The DTS should be more consistent across processors, though (and will be higher, too).