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- Fix: Do not display TDP and TjMax for Zen and Zen+ CPUs
- Fix: Incorrect BCLK on legacy (Pre-Zen) AMD CPUs
- Fix: Check for updates feature
- Fix: "Unsupported CPU" message when only some cores have HT enabled
- Fix: Epyc Rome/Threadripper 3rd gen Platform detection
- Fix: Gemini Lake platform detection
- Fix: Whiskey Lake codename
- Fix: Incorrect VID reporting on some Celeron/Pentium processors
- Fix: Crash on Intel Banias based (Pentium/Celeron M) processors
- Fix: Turbo multiplier detection on Nehalem/Westmere
- Fix: Bugs related to response to DPI changes
- Fix: VID reporting on some AMD Athlon64 processors
- New: Add support for 2nd generation Threadripper processors, Socket FP5.
- Fix: Crash when 5 or more cores exceed overheat protection temperature setting.
- Fix: "No supported CPU detected" on Ryzen processors.
- Fix: Constant frequency readings on Ryzen processors.
- Fix: Incorrect readings on Ryzen processors.
- New: Support for AMD Pinnacle Ridge (Ryzen 2) and AMD Raven Ridge (APU).
- Fix: Frequency is always at maximum for early Core iX and Core 2 models.
- Fix: Recognition of some Sandy Bridge Xeon models.
- New: Support for AMD EPYC (Naples) processors, Stoney Ridge APUs.
- New: Multiple processor group support. Fixes detection of CPUs on multi-socket
systems with more than a total of 64 threads.
- New: Support for Intel Coffee Lake, Denverton, Gemini Lake.
- New: Support for Intel Xeon Phi (untested).
- Fix: 1.10 version crash on AMD processors, only populating temperature of first
1-2 cores.
- Fix: Add correct temperature offsets for AMD Ryzen Threadripper X1920 and X1950.
- Fix: In multi-socket AMD systems, switching into MiniMode would bring up all
hidden windows of all running applications and services.
- Fix: Support for MCM AMD CPUs. Only the highest temperature per CPU is displayed.
- Fix: Socket C32 and G34 Opteron code names.
- Fix: On some AMD Opteron systems the CPU model number is not displayed.
- Fix: Detection of the C32 and G34 socket types for some Opteron CPUs.
- Fix: Corrected TjMax on some older desktop Atom chips.
- Fix: Power draw figures are only available on CPU #0 in multi processor systems.
- Fix: BSOD on some Intel systems.
- Fix: Core Temp locks up after waking up system from suspend/hibernation due to
overheating protection.
- Fix: AMD Athlon FX-60 Dual Core recognition.
- Change: Subversion will now be shown in the title and About dialog if it's not 0.
- New: Support for Intel Kaby Lake, Apollo Lake and Avoton processors.
- Fix: Incorrect multiplier on 45nm and early 32nm Core series processors.
- Fix: Sometimes power consumption doesn't work on supported processors.
- Fix: In cases where both IA and GT power figures are N/A, Uncore displays the
same value as Package.
- Fix: Incorrect VID on Intel processors.
- Fix: Inaccurate TjMax on Silvermont based (22nm Atom) processors.
- Fix: Incorrect VID on AMD Trinity and newer processors.
- Fix: Corrected Lynnfield recognition of i5 760, i7 870S.
- Fix: Crystal Well and Haswell-ULT code names added for the Haswell generation.
- Fix: VIA Eden X4 was incorrectly named VIA QuadCore.
- Update: G15 applet will be named 'Core Temp' from now on, without the version
number.
- New: Power measurements for IA Cores, GT (Graphics core), Uncore and DRAM for
Intel Sandy Bridge, Silvermont and newer processors.
- Known issues: Some systems running Windows 10 Anniversary may still have driver
load failure.
- Fix: K8 generation of AMD CPUs displayed "Distance to TjMax" text when it was not
actually doing that.
- Fix: Recognition for Xeon W3670, W3680 processors.
- Known issues: Some systems running Windows 10 Anniversary may still have driver
load failure.
- Known issues: Some systems running Windows 10 Anniversary may still have driver
load failure.
- Update: Notification Area icon tooltips will display all of the available core
temperatures in "Highest temperature" modes.
- New: Added support for AMD Kabini, Mullins, Carrizo, Kaveri and Godavari APUs.
- New: Added support for Haswell-EP CPUs
*** Core Temp Monitor is now available, a Windows Phone and Android apps to monitor
your machines from anywhere in the world!
More information here: http://www.alcpu.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1945
- New: Added support for all current Intel and AMD processors.
- Update: Ram utilization notification icon added to the Settings --> Notification
Area.
- Update: Logitech G15 applet now supports CPUs with up to 10 cores.
- Update: System tray icons' tooltips now display their respective core
information.
- Update: Log file will now also contain power consumption.
- Update: Log file will now keep track of each core on AMD CPUs as well.
- New: Multilingual interface. Core Temp now natively supports adding non-English
languages.
- New: Plugin system - 3rd party developers can now create plugins and extensions
for Core Temp, both native code and .Net is supported, please see
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/developers.html for more information.
- New: Added support for Intel Pentium and AMD K5 and newer processors. (detection
only, Temperature by Acpi Thermalzones)
- New: Added support for VIA processors. (C3 - detection only, Temperature by Acpi
Thermalzones)
- New: Intel Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver and Fusion
(Trinity, Llano, Brazos) support.
- New: Max TDP detection on supporting processors.
- New: Active power consumption on Intel's Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors.
- Fix: All of the user reported bugs and many more unreported problems.
- Update: Optimized the startup code, Core Temp should now launch 2 to 4 times
faster.
- Update: Optimized many other aspects of the code, Core Temp should now consume
much less CPU time than before.
- Update: Restored support for older OS: Windows XP is now fully supported, Windows
2000 requires security updates KB935839, KB835732 and GDI+. In some cases hotfix
KB816542 may be needed as well.
- New: Completely new settings dialog, much clearer and easier to use.
- New: Added Hibernation to Overheat protection options.
- Update: TjMax adjusted to 100c (Intel's specs) for 400 and 500 series Atom
processors.
- Update: Shared memory applications and AMD Phenom derivatives will now show
temperature for all of the cores.
- Update: Core Temp will remember proper screen position on multiple displays, when
the 1st display is on the right.
- New: Core Temp FAQ is now available online, see About Core Temp dialog.
- New: System tray icons for CPU speed and CPU load - see System Tray setup under
Options.
- New: Support for the latest mobile AMD processors.
- Fix: Multiple "Fail" messages when the computer exits sleep or plugged
into/unplugged from power (laptops).
- Fix: Several mobile Intel processor recognition issues.
- Fix: When disabling Windows 7 Taskbar feature with Cycle mode, icons still
continue to cycle.
- Fix: Windows 7 Taskbar settings UI bug.
- Update: "Start with Windows" function in Vista and 7 now works on a per-user
basis.
- Update: Change the time and date layout of the log file name to YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-
SS.
- Update: All of the readings logged are now numeric only.
- Update: In single instance mode, the previous instance will be brought to the
screen.
- Known issue: Core Temp may stop responding for a period of time or completely
lockup on some systems when switching between power supplies (wall/battery) or
exiting sleep/hibernation mode.
- New: "Start Core Temp with Windows" feature on Windows Vista and 7.
- Fix: Taking a screenshot would not capture the whole window in Vista/7 with aero
mode.
- Fix: Windows 7 taskbar Cycle mode only shows up after the first interval has
elapsed.
- Fix: Overheating protection UI bug.
- Fix: The Mini-mode menu was not checked when Mini-mode was activated.
- Fix: Corrected the placement and size of the load label on Phenom based
processors.
- Fix: Order of appearance of the system tray icons in Windows 7.
- Update: The appropriate G15 menu is now checked depending on the status of the
G15 plug-in.
- Update: Added support for 12 core processors to temperature offset adjustment
window.
- New: Implemented Windows 7 taskbar button features. (Under the Options menu)
- New: Clock modulation detection for Intel processors.
- New: Proper support the Phenom II X6 and Athlon L100 series.
- New: Support for the E3000 Celeron series.
- New: Displays the processor's manufacturing process. (Lithography)
- Known issues: Intel processor speed detection displays extremely high numbers.
- New: Support for new and upcoming Intel and AMD processors.
- New: Better recognition of AMD dual/tri core unlocked CPUs.
- New: Optional 24 hour display on G15 LCD.
- Update: Temp turns Orange when temperature is over TControl, and Red when CPU is
thottling/critical.
- Update: Reorganized menu.
- Update: TjMax for mobile Atom processors changed to 90C.
- Update: "Lion" codename for AMD Turion was changed to "Griffin".
- Update: Completely dropped support for older Windows NT OS, Windows XP or up is
required. *
(For Windows 2000: download GDIPlus.dll here http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-
files.shtml?gdiplus)
Major changes:
Completely rewritten base code.
Core Temp is now available in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
- New: CPU detection improved, efficiency improved, speed improved, clock speed
detection improved.
- New: Initial support for Core i5 (Lynnfield).
- New: Automatically detect Core i7/i5 series TjMax.
- New: Show real-time TDP of Core i7 processors (still needs work).
- New: Alternative clock speed detection for Core 2, i7 and i5 series and up.
- New: Support for all currently available and some future processor families.
(Intel & AMD)
- New: Temperature changes color when temperatures hit high levels to alert the
user. (Orange = hot, Red = critical)
- New: Show (!) besides the temperature of a core which hit critical temp as a
notification of past overheating.
- New: Invalid temperature values are followed by (?) for both Intel and AMD.
- New: AMD AM2 65nm K8 based processors get a 21c offset to fix incorrect
temperature reporting (info from AMD).
- New: AMD Black Edition processors identified by "BE" suffix after PR rating.
- New: Display time and date on G15 LCD.
- New: Complete DPI awareness - Core Temp GUI now scales perfectly with any DPI
setting.
- New: Rewritten algorithm for "Register dump" function, works much faster and more
accurate (no ghost devices).
- Update: Core Temp will now work with A0 and A1 revisions of 65nm Core 2
processors.
- Update: Core Temp will not work on some/all virtual machine software.
- Update: TjMax values for 65nm Core 2 series adjusted.
- New: Correct TjMax values for 45nm Core 2 series, according to this document:
http://intel.wingateweb.com/US08/published/sessions/TMTS001/SF08_TMTS001_100r.pdf
- Fix: When TjMax = 0 (undefined) "Delta to Tjunction" was not added to the
temperature string.
- Fix: On the fly CPU speed didn't pick up changes when EIST was disabled (only C1E
active).
- New: Support for Core Temp plug-ins. (Still in beta phase and not in GUI yet).
- New: Full support for AMD's Puma platform CPUs (in previous version reffered to
as Griffin).
- New: Initial support for 45nm AMD processors.
- New: Update K8 and K10 recognition code to support all currently known CPUs.
- New: Default TDP detection for Nehalem.
- New: On the fly CPU speed detection.
- New: Close to system tray option.
- Update: Log file is now produced in CSV format - easily import your logs into
Excel.
- Update: Logging interval is now in Seconds instead of miliseconds.
- Update: Default logging interval is now 10 seconds.
- Update: Logging is now off by default.
- Update: Move all settings to the ini file out of the registry.
- Update: Rename ini file to CoreTemp.ini.
- Update: Temperature offset adjustment works for AMD CPUs as well.
- Update: Atom Tj.Max adjusted for more accurate readings.
- Update: Cleaned up code a little bit.
- New: Shared memory - developers now have access to Core Temp data.
- New: Register dump to text file function.
- New: Preliminary Atom (Silverthorne) support - Untested.
- New: Support for Intel Core 2 Duo E7000 45nm series.
- New: Option to show a single icon instead of temperature in the system tray.
- New: Custom font and size for G15 LCD screen or simply use the built in compact
font and layout. (via Settings.ini)
- Fix: Core Temp sometimes crashes when another program tries to access the log
file. - Still needs further testing.
- New: Vista x64 support - All drivers are now digitally signed!
- New: Logitech G15 keyboard support - see ReadMe!.txt for details.
- New: Support 45nm LGA775 Xeon series.
- Fix: Core Temp does not proprerly display temperature and CPU select fields.
- Fix: Log file layout.
- Fix: Hide\Show does not properly Minimize\Restore window.
- Fix: Core code names aren't properly detected. (Intel)
- Fix: Incorrect\Missing CPU rating when not using stock\maximum multiplier.
(Intel)
- Fix: Wrong CPU clock is reported when using EIST\non-maximum multiplier. (Intel)
- Fix: Wrong detection of Merom based CPUs.
- Fix: Single core Athlon 64s and Semprons reading -49C constantly. (Rare)
- Fix: C2D M0 rev. report very low temperatures. (Tjmax to 100C)
- Fix: Layout and display of tool tip text in the system tray. (Now shows a core
per line)
- Update: Log the start and end of a session even if logging is disabled.
- Update: Settings and Systray settings windows appear in center of main window.
- Update: Rename "Tjunction" field to "Tj. Max" to make things clearer.
-Logging feature added - Just copy into Excel for easy graphing.
- Fixed a bug where some programs would cause the program's driver to fail.
* On a Merom it will report the temperature delta to Tjunction (Max temp defined by
Intel).
** Conroe might not support this feature.
Version 0.9.0.32 - 24th April, 2006