Some ten-watt bulb at Intel decided "instead of a thermal sensor which returns "45 degrees", it made more sense to be "Mystery Throttling Temperature - 42 degrees". Now, this throws me for a loop on hardware monitoring.

All was well with my E6750. But today I swapped in an E7200 (primarily to see how far it can be pushed... 3.8 seems to be the answer, but damn, now I want 4.0!)

Core Temp says Mystery Throttling Temperature is 100C. This gives idle temperatures in the high 30s/low 40s.

HWMonitor, my usual go-to app (it's so clean and comprehensive, and it works right in Vista/64) also assumes 100C. This indicates that the E7200 I'm trying out is actually running significantly hotter than the E6750 it replaced.

OCCT behaves like it's 105C in its monitoring system. Even hotter.

But Real Temp says 95C.

Who do I believe? I want to consider the tradeoffs here, and I can't do that without good numbers-- it's rather like my last bout on Socket A. I ended up trading off a Palomino-core 2000+ for a Duron 1.6 because of its significantly cooler running and higher tolerance for overclocking.

I was similarly frustrated with my e7200 earlier
http://www.forumapex.com/heatsinks_f...h_temps-2.html

I'm pretty sure Real Temp is the correct reading. Running stock over here it's the only one that makes sense. It's kind of a bummer since I like the extensions other hardware monitoring software has so I can display it on my LCD, etc. but until they fix their stuff that's what I'm using for mine.