HWmonitor Question

[unibrow1990]

So I just started using HWmonitor and I've decided i like better than speedfan as a general temperature monitor but i have a couple questions about what seems like strange behavior.

1) It reads that i have 3 cpu cores but it always displays the same core temperature for each of them no matter what, even if i loadf up one core and not the others, does the processor have only one core temperature sensor for the whole processor or is HWmonitor reading it wrong

2) Kind of the same thing as the first but this time with my graphics cards, it shows that i have two cards on the screen but the temperature and fan speed information on both of them is the same and it is the info from my primary card, is this normal behavior for the program.

I include a screenie showing what im talking about for both issues.

many thanks.

 

[95Viper]

I don't know that much about AMD cpus, but HWMonitor shows different temps for my Intel Quad and my 4870X2.

Try running GPU-z and Real Temp at the same time and compare them.

 

[JATownes]

HWMonitor reads all four of my temps on my 940...but AMD CPUs usually dissipate heat petty evenly...even if only one or two cores are loaded the IHS spreads the heat evenly. I occasionally see temp variations between the cores, but not as often as on Intel CPUs.

 

[unibrow1990]

@95Viper- Gpu-z shows different temps and fan speeds for my graphics cards, thats what tipped me off to the issue in the first place. I'll try realtemp and see if it shows any difference for the cpu

@JATownes- That might be the case, but when the temp changes all three change at the exact same time with no variation at all which makes me think its reading the same temp 3 times.

 

[Nick89]

I thought Realtemp was for intel CPUs only?

 

[unibrow1990]

It is, i was just reading that as i went to download it, are there any other good programs i could use as an alternative to test.

 

[95Viper]

Maybe, coretemp:http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/supportlist.html

Told ya, I don't do AMD, sorry. I just thought every CPU is INTEL.
It is a joke...

 

[erocker]

CoreTemp will work as will AMD Overdrive. I'm also pretty sure there is only one core temp sensor in AMD chips.

 

[95Viper]

Quote from Coretemp site:
"AMD chips report the temperature by a special register in the CPU's NB. Core Temp reads that register and uses a formula provided by AMD to calculate the current temperature.
The formula for the K8 is: 'Core Temp = Value - 49'.
The formula for the K10* is: 'CPU Temp** = Value / 8'.

The sensor in AMD CPUs can report temperatures between -49C and 206C.

*K10 = Phenom (Agena), Opteron (Barcelona). The K10 reports a temperature value that is relative to a certain predefined value, it doesn't report the actual processor temperature! So take that into consideration.
**CPU Temp is because the Phenom\Opteron (K10) have only one sensor per package, meaning there is only one reading per processor."

If it helps, I don't do A... never mind.

Erocker you are correct.

 

[unibrow1990]

Core temp does the same thing with the temperature, it even shows the processor load changing individually but the temps always change at the exact same time for each core so that tells me it's not a HWmonitor issue which is what i wanted to know.

The thing with it reading my primary gfx card twice instead of both of them separately is still odd though.

 

[Nick89]

HW monitor shows the same temps for all the cores on my PII 940 also.