I'm not a fan of core temp either. I prefer my digital thermometer. My 1st Core2Duo
was an E6300 and I used it with 2 differnt brands of mobo's (Intel D975XBX and EVGA
6801 SLI). Using the exact same voltage settings (at stock and overclocked speeds)
the digital thermometer showed almost identical temps while core temp, speedfan and
the supplied mobo hardware monitors all showed a difference of 5-10dC. While core temp
is reading a diode in the chip, the signal still has to travel thru mobo circuitry before the
core temp software reads the signal. But everyone can't go out and buy a good digital
thermometer so I will recommend Core Temp over the other alternatives.

XFX finally sent me (2) 8800GTX's in a trade in for my 7950GX2's :-)
I'm running Vista so I'm still waiting on some good drivers. Plus I need
to get some better cooling than the stock heatsinks. But I ran a 13553
in 3DMark06 with no video overclock or abnormal settings to boost my score.

13553
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2205970

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