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O.T. Reading computer internals Message #1 Posted by designnut on 13 Oct 2011, 10:25 p.m. I have a program called AIDA64 that looks deep into my dcomputer (free trial). I reads ttemperatures voltages and CPU watts in use. It is a locally built-up, not a name brand. Any idea what it uses to read all that informattion?

Re: O.T. Reading computer internals Message #2 Posted by David Ramsey on 13 Oct 2011, 11:15 p.m., in response to message #1 by designnut All modern CPUs have internal temperature sensors so that they can throttle clock speed and/or voltage to keep it within its thermal envelope. Most current motherboards have various flavors of "super I/O" chips (Fintek makes some) that can control and report on these values. AIDA64 checks for a number of these chips and probably combines information from them with information from the CPU.

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