Technically even external digital thermos are software temp sensors.

The difference is the quality of parts. Which would you trust more. An algorithmic temp sensor based on a $100 product designed to sense the lack or increased resistance of a material based on temperature and that can be calibrated? Or would you prefer the temp sensor included in a $50-$500 motherboard that you have no clue which they used?

Seriously my $10 temp probe (+13 shipping) reads about 140 degrees lower than my one included on my ROG motherboard. So what maybe 50 cents for the mobo temp sensor?

Check out how whacked my 965BE sensors are. While running IBT the CPU was @ 84C and cores below 0.

Pretty wild....now idling @ 73C. :Dizzy:

Here is one you can actually see the temps. Idling along @ 87C....while running IBT it dropped to 40C for a few seconds now IBTing @ 59C...lol....the cores reached 10C according to HWmonitor. I just can't get over how unusual it seems.

Weirdest thing is that the BIOS and all software installed on my machine are reading the same ridiculous temperatures, but RC TweakIT installed on my laptop to monitor the main rig is somehow still giving me accurate readings(or consistent with all along anyways). It reads the CPU as N/A or subzero now....and got up to 8C while running IBT.

I really hope my new thermometer will be more accurate than my current one. I had the probe in my mouth testing it and it only got up to 17C. I think my block thermometer is off by about 10-15C. Right now the coolant is @ -22C and the block thermometer reads -34C.

And this morning....4.5GHz/121C (idle) cores are at or below zero.

Sorry to bore you all with my stupid software temp readings, but that's about the most exciting thing going on right now. :blink:

That is wacky!
I don't tend to look, but whenever I do, I've never seen anything like that, closest I had was sensors stuck at 30