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I like this one. Just hope it's portable!

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.

This feature is supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 series of processors as well as the whole AMD's AMD64 line of CPUs.

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.

Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 (both 32bit and 64bit versions).

It's available from ...

It's a nice little program that will be part of my software tools. It's tiny and and does what it is supposed to do. Thanks for finding it.

As far as portability is concerned, it works off a USB key. However, it is not stealthy, as it saves its settings to the registry.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Core Temp]
"ReadInt"=dword:000003e8
"LogInt"=dword:000003e8
"EnLog"=dword:00000000
"DisOHN"=dword:00000000
"Fahr"=dword:00000001
"Minimized"=dword:00000000
"ShowDTJ"=dword:00000000
"SPX"=dword:0000022c
"SPY"=dword:000000f8
"SysInit"=dword:00000001

Just to bring this up to date -

1. Home Site is now ...
2. Latest version is V 0.96.1

3. melendz was absolutely correct.

If the Settings menu is accessed in any way (even if no changes are made) , then the settings are written to the Registry.
If you avoid the Settings menu (accept defaults) then nothing is written to the Registry.

So it is probably unacceptable to the PFC

4. Particularly useful is the realtime logging facility.

Hi,
The new version (0.99.1) seems to not use the registry anymore to store its settings. At least I didn't find any entries in the registry after testing this version.
More importantly, I found the confirmation here:

http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Quote:
"Version 0.99.1 - 10th July, 2008
[...]
Change: Move all settings to the ini file out of the registry."

(bolding mine)

Thanks Andrei
Now seems a perfectly (TPFC) acceptable application.

Added to the database!

Vote here!

ChemZ wrote:Added to the database!

Vote here!

Requires admin rights to load alsysio driver. Does it remove the driver upon exiting the application?

CoreTemp updated to Version 1.0 RC8 - 21st February, 2016.

Change log: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/history.html
Download: http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Core Temp updated to v1.0 RC9
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Changelog:
Version 1.0 RC9 - 4th June, 2016

- New: Added support for AMD Kabini, Mullins, Carrizo, Kaveri and Godavari APUs.
- New: Added support for Haswell-EP CPUs.

- Fix: Update notification popup now identifies it as being Core Temp.
- Fix: Core Temp crash on update check.
- Fix: Core Temp window invisible due to being out of desktop bounds.
- Fix: Haswell Crystal Well frequency and TDP were missing.
- Fix: AMD Kaveri/Godavari CPUs were stuck at 16C/61F.
- Fix: Incorrect VID reported for newer AMD FX processors.
- Fix: AMD Trinity temperature was reported too high.
- Fix: When 'Display distance to TjMax' option is enabled, no indication string appears on AMD CPUs.
- Tip: Enabling the option above will result in the same temperature readings as in AMD Overdrive.

TP109 wrote:Core Temp updated to v1.0 RC9
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/

Thanks. Entry updated.

Version 1.8.1 - 10th June, 2017

- New: AMD Ryzen support.
- New: Power consumption notification area (system tray) icon.
- New: Intel/VIA, right click the Frequency to select which core's frequency to display.

- Fix: Power draw figures are only available on CPU #0 in multi processor systems.
- Fix: BSOD on some Intel systems.
- Fix: Core Temp locks up after waking up system from suspend/hibernation due to overheating protection.
- Fix: AMD Athlon FX-60 Dual Core recognition.

- Known issues: Some systems running Windows 10 Anniversary may still have driver load failure.

gbrao wrote:Version 1.8.1 - 10th June, 2017

Thanks. I updated the entry.