The ASUS programs sensors are based on the motherboard and depend on an external chip. However, when the same author reply, on his forum, to a user asking about inconsistencies in CPU temperature readings, clearly interested in real and not relative temperature (he wrote :”I’m running water cooling and the temps aren’t high during load but just wondering about the accuracy”, high temperature is meaningless on an undefined relative scale), that “ I’d say that Core Temp is more accurate, especially at higher temperatures. Possibly, probably, right: k10temp may be more accurate than atk0110. The DTS provides more accurate and higher resolution temperature readings than conventional onboard thermal sensors”. For instance, CoreTemp author, a proprietary software for MS Windows to provide CPU temperature readings, states on his front page that “all major processor manufacturers have implemented a DTS (Digital Thermal Sensor) in their products.

There’s actually lot of misinformation on the web. Clearly, the Motherboard sensor (atk0110 / IT8716F chip) readings, same as what the BIOS reports, are more sensible. MB Temperature: +42.0☌ (high = +45.0☌, crit = +90.0☌)ġ7☌, as reported by the CPU sensor, seems very low especially as the temperature of the room the computer is running inside is at least 17☌ already. On my main workstation, lm-sensors provides apparently contradictory temperature reading for the CPU, depending on the sensor: radeon-pci-0200ĬPU Temperature: +17.0☌ (high = +70.0☌)ĬPU Temperature: +32.0☌ (high = +90.0☌, crit = +125.0☌)

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