Fine, you weren't spreading cold hard FUD... But the FUDness is there, just.
Anyway, I just saw a case in XS forum where one user reports CoreTemp readings being drastically abnormal from TAT and the vice-versa for TAT in another case.
So yeh, time to change the temp readings intructions in my guide (yet again). This time with both TAT & CoreTemp running then picking the more consistant one.
There was no fudiness there. Cold, hard, or soft warm and wet. I wasnt spreading fear or doubt. I was reporting my experiance and making a recommendation based on that. I still dont see where your getting this. I mean, It not like I was running my mouth saying "4x4 will rule kentsfield all....mark my words, you'll see. I know I invented 4x4"
Now that aside, there were some things I wanted to talk to you about, trying to isolate the problem with Core Temp.
When you were running Core Temp, were you running it simultaniuosly with TAT?
Were you running it with any other Temp monitoring programs?
The reason I went looking for other progs was that I didnt trust PcProbe. MBM and Hmon agree with it though. Now, what is interesting, is when I run Core Temp simultaniuosly with PCProbe, PCProbe will "spike" momentarily up to 264"C from time to time. Clearly this is wrong. MBM and Hmon dont seem to have a problem with this. This implies to me that the 2 progs are interferring with each other somehow. TAT does not seem to interfer with PCProbe. (another reason I tend to distrust Core Temp)
So, I am thinking that perhaps, the other progs are interfering with Core Temps sensor polling cycle, or vice versa. I could explain why my readings are apparently jacked up.