Thank you mlee49 for your support of RealTemp where it counts the most. $$$$$
It doesn't take a lot of money to motivate me but even a handful of donations can make the difference between carrying on with this project or walking away from it.
I was able to add some very useful features lately and I also got the 6 core version of RealTemp GT updated too. Being able to adjust the multipliers in the Core i Extreme and K series CPUs is a great new feature for RealTemp and is going to be even more useful in the new year when Intel decides to start releasing more K series CPUs for enthusiasts.
Now for the big announcement. Finally I won't have to constantly defend myself from people that are always asking, "How come RealTemp is not the same as CPU-Z?" On the XS RealTemp forum today, the programmer of CPU-Z, in his own words, finally decided to come clean.
I also showed him why I don't believe that TMonitor is any more accurate than CPU-Z is at idle but that's still a discussion in progress.
Here's an example of what TMonitor tells me for my T8100.
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This CPU presently has EIST disabled. When you disable EIST in a Core 2 based CPU, the CPU gets locked at a fixed frequency. The multiplier reported in MSR 0x198 never changes from idle to full load.
Using Intel's recommended method to determine the multiplier, RealTemp and ThrottleStop correctly show that the CPU is locked at the 11.5 multiplier.
TMonitor is telling me that at idle the multiplier is at 6.0 and when I apply a load to the CPU, the multiplier goes up and down. That's wrong. The multiplier does not change when EIST is disabled. It can't. If you want to argue, that's great but you need to argue with Intel. TMonitor is just as inaccurate when run on Core i CPUs. It draws a nice graph but the information it is graphing is fundamentally wrong and inaccurate so it's pointless. TMonitor would be a very useful tool if it followed Intel's methods but there's no point in telling users that their CPU is doing something that it isn't.
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Thanks Super Sarge for giving RealTemp 3.60 a fresh try.