Hogwash.Generally speaking CoreTemp is redundant bunk and not really actionable. You should figure out if there is a motherboard mounted sensor in/under the physical socket. There usually is, and this is the actual hot spot and the limiting factor.
The values reported by the coretemp module (at least as far as Intel CPUs) are die-sense temperatures (i.e. the actual CPU hotspot) and the same values used by the microcode for clock modulation / thermal boost tables / throttling etc. Motherboard "CPU" temperature sensors (near or under the socket, at some indeterminate distance from what matters) haven't been relevant for years, they're notoriously inaccurate, and since the limiting factor for any silicon is Tjunction not Tcase anyway, they're mostly meaningless.
If by "not actionable" you mean "higher than I like to see, so I look at the other one"... Well, you do you I guess.
As for getting values, why poke about in /sys/class/hwmon by hand when lm-sensors (and the sensors-detect script therein) exists?
Statistics: Posted by steve_v — 2024-08-01 19:10