CPU/Mobo Motherboard Monitoring Software differences - Which to Rely On ?

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I have a Athlon 2600+ Barton and a MSI KT4AV mobo. The motherboard monitor software given by MSI was PC Alert 4. It shows the proc temp..... I tried using Motherboad monitor 5 for checking the proc temp... but motherboard monitor shows 4-5C less temp that PC Alert(MSI)....

Now my confusion is which is correct??? PC Alert of Motherboard monitor? motherboard monitor supports my mobo....

Also the temp of the proc has gone due to this summer.... before the idle temp would be 51-52 and peak temp wud be 57-58.... but now in this summer idle temp are 53-54 and peak 59... and goes upto 61 when i render animations.... Are other Athlon users facing temp rise??? what can be done to bring down the temp???
 
There are many softwares

Motherboard Monitor 5 [MBM 5]
Latest :- 5.3.7.0 18 June 2004
Download:- http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html

Speed Fan
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption. Several sensors, like Winbond's and the AS99127F support fan speed changing, as well as others from Maxim, Myson, Analog Devices, National Semiconductor and ITE, but the hardware manufacturer must have connected the relevant pins to some additional, yet trivial, circuitry. This means that if you have, say, a Winbond W83782D on a BP6 then you're ok, but not every motherboard with such an hardware monitor chip will be able to change fan speeds. From one of the very first hardware monitor chips that could be found in standard PCs, the National Semiconductor LM75 (and all of its clones, like the Philips NE1617 and the Philips NE1618 or the Maxim MAX1617) or the Analog Devices ADM1021, such chips have been greatly improved, both in their precision and in their capabilities. Current chips can monitor fan speeds, voltages and control fan speeds bu using PWMs (Pulse Width Modulation). Some chips can even be programmed to vary fan speeds without any additional software intervention. If your BIOS was programmed to setup such chips this way you can still try to use SpeedFan's Advanced Configuration to revert to manual (software controlled) mode. Winbond W83697HF, Analog Devices ADT7463, SMSC EMC6D102, ITE IT8712F, National LM85C and Maxim MAX6650 are very good candidates. Some SuperIO chips include temperature sensors too. SpeedFan can automatically detect them and use their features. The most used are National PC87366 and all of SMSC LPC SuperIO chips. SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management Bus, a subset of the I2C BUS) Serial Interface and to the ISA BUS. SpeedFan works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003 and Windows XP. SpeedFan can be minimized to the tray and is compatible with Motherboard Monitor 5.

Download:- http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

Also if you want to lower down your CPU temp a bit more
- Arrange wires properly in the cabinet.
- Try a Thermal Paste like:- Artic Silver 5[Best] or Artic Ceramique
 
itsmevivek said:
I have a Athlon 2600+ Barton and a MSI KT4AV mobo. The motherboard monitor software given by MSI was PC Alert 4. It shows the proc temp..... I tried using Motherboad monitor 5 for checking the proc temp... but motherboard monitor shows 4-5C less temp that PC Alert(MSI)....

Now my confusion is which is correct??? PC Alert of Motherboard monitor? motherboard monitor supports my mobo....
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If you feel the temp of Motherboard Monitor is not correct and you want to adjust these readings it is possible via the ini files in the Motherboard Monitors DATA directory under Program Files. Please make a backup of any file you are going to change.

For Example = I checked my PSU's voltage readings with a Digital Volt meter and I matched these readings with MoBoMon by editing the voltage.ini file.

I prefer Motherboard Monitor over all other such programs for the way it shows the readings in the systray as well as the dashboard. In the systray I have the digital temperature readings of my CPU Case and HDD's.

Have you made sure you have the reading taken forom the correct sensor in Motherboard Monitor ? Here is the Sensor selection for the KT4 MoBo's The first sensor is for the Case reading and the second is for the CPU.
 
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