Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
Intel and AMD recently published detailed, public information about the "DTS" (Digital Thermal Sensor), which provides much higher accuracy and more relevant temperature reading than the standard thermal diode sensors do. (How it works).
This feature is supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 series of processors as well as the whole AMDs AMD64 line of CPUs. (for a full list of supported CPUs: (CPU Support List).
Core Temp also has a logging feature, allowing a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time, then the data can be easily transfered into an excel datasheet for easy graphing.
What's New in version 0.99.2.9:
Fix: Start with Windows option was broken in 0.99.1.
Fix: Default color for the second system tray icon is invisible with WinXP blue theme.
Fix: Save screenshot function would create a corrupted BMP in some viewing software.
Fix: Nehalem does not report VID like earlier CPUs. VID field now disabled for Nehalem.
Fix: Incorrect 65nm Turion X2 code name detection.
Fix: Potential bug of improper K10 and up recognition.
Fix: Enabling distance to Tj.Max with "Highest temp." for system tray would show the largest distance to Tj.Max instead of smallest.
Fix: Vendor ID and Device ID values were reversed in the register dump file.
Fix: 3/4 temperatures logged for Phenom X3/X4 instead of 1.
Add: Support for Core Temp plugins. (Still in beta phase and not in GUI yet).
Add: Full support for AMD's Puma platform CPUs (in previous version reffered to as Griffin).
Add: Initial support for 45nm AMD processors.
Add: Update K8 and K10 recognition code to support all currently known CPUs.
Add: Default TDP detection for Nehalem.
Add: On the fly CPU speed detection.
Add: Close to system tray option.
Change: Log file is now produced in CSV format - easily import your logs into Excel.
Change: Logging interval is now in Seconds instead of miliseconds.
Change: Default logging interval is now 10 seconds.
