Does your PC often shut down on its own, even when every software utility and driver seems to work just fine? Or, does your laptop reboot repeatedly and inexplicably whenever you take it out of the air-conditioned office environment? While there may indeed be some hardware or software problems with your PC or laptop, it is also equally likely that you are facing the result of a CPU overheating problem. Most modern processors and VGA cards can run pretty hot. In fact, if you have over clocked any of those two components, then chances are that those two are running hot enough to burn off your fingerprints.
Coretemp is an application that you can go for. It is a small utility that consumes very little resources, and gives highly accurate measurements of CPU temperature. The tool is compatible with the new temperature monitoring technology used by Intel and AMD, known as DTS (Digital Temperature Signal). It has a very tiny CPU footprint, which means most of the time you will see that it is using almost no CPU resources at all. It also needs very little RAM (Random-access memory) to function properly, so you can keep it running inthe background even when you are performing CPU intensive tasks, such as gaming or video encoding.
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As the name suggests, the tool specializes in measuring the temperature of processor core(s). So, if you have a multi-core processor, you will be able to get independent measurements of each core done and displayed by the tool automatically. You can install and run this tool under both Windows XP and Vista. The best feature of the tool is that it shows you the temperature of all cores in the bar located in the system tray itself. So, you will never have to click inside the application to see the core temperatures. Just a quick glance at the taskbar and you will be aware of how warm (or hot) your CPU cores are running at the moment.
The application is quite user friendly. Once you install it, simply run the executable and you will be able to see the temperatures of your CPU cores. You can then minimize it into the taskbar and just leave it there. Next thing you need to do is to find out the optimal temperature rating for your Intel or AMD processor from the manufacturer's website and you can compare those readings with that of your CPU on the fly.