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How to avoid multiple temp polling when stability testing?

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Stilez

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I have gleaned this information about stability testing and temperatures:
  • One shouldn't run two or more programs together that both poll CPU temperatures, because both will be inaccurate results (due to temperature polling issues);
  • AIDA64 (and Intel's own) are two of the better stability tests for modern CPUs;
  • Core Temp/Real Temp/HWMonitor are some of the better programs for core temps.
The problem is, AIDA shows temps as it's stability testing. (Other programs often do as well)

I see many threads saying things like "Use the temperature tester of your choice, but just one of them". Is there a way to use AIDA64 for the stability stress load and Core Temp or similar reputable program for the temperature polling? Put another way, how do you make AIDA's polling "play nice" if you want a different temp measurer? (I tried the obvious turn-off all temps in its "preferences"; AIDA detected this as "hardware failure". Not sure what else to try)
 
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I have found AIDA to be really weak on OC stability testing.

I'm not really out trying to find the absolute hottest possible test but... in the end that's what I find gets the crashes out quicker and gets me stable quicker as a result.

prime 95 or IBT

I have never seen the few temp tools I use conflict with each other, that includes ai suite 3, hwmonitor, hwinfo64 as well as MSI afterburner.

But I've heard people say you shouldn't use them all at the same time. So I never really tried it. HWinfo64 will give some weird warnings about one of the ASUS sensors too, so I disable it o_O
 
An overclocked Intel CPU is running at over 4 billion cycles per second. Think about it. A handful of programs reading the same register that contains temperature data is not going to cause any problems. Each program could be reading data from this register thousands of times a second and there still would not be any conflicts.

Core Temp, RealTemp and HWMonitor are all very competitive when reporting core temperature data from an Intel Core i CPU so use whatever program you like.
 
^This. I never have seen any issues running multiple programs that read out the temps.
 
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