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guyladouche · #2 (**permalink**) 03-28-2007, 07:05 AM

I used to use speedfan for temperature monitoring, but I'd recommend coretemp over speedfan if the interest is in accurate temperature reporting--it reports the temperatures more accurtely because speefan reports the temperature of the socket, whereas coretemp reports the actual temperature of the CPU core(s)--which is why in most cases coretemp reports higher temps than speedfan because the temp at the socket is cooler than the temp of the core itself. Also, speedfan isn't very good for multi-core temperature reporting as it only reports the temp of one of the cores--coretemp reports the temperature of each core.

However, coretemp lacks the other features of speedfan such as optional fan control if the motherboard supports it. The logging features of speedfan are also quite useful.