cmonkey Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 Hi I know it's a very long shot but does anybody know of a very simple CPU core temperature monitoring app that will work on an x86 Mac? I have tried all the PPC based ones that I know of and unsurprisingly they didn't work. The reason I ask is that I have a dual boot machine and manual control of all 3 fans via a Vantec Nexus fan controller. It's very easy to keep track of the CPU temp in Speedfan on the PC side of things and therefore keep the fans running as quietly as possible whilst still keeping an eye on the CPU temperature. However with no way to monitor CPU temp on the Mac side of things I tend to run the fans much faster than I probably could get away with just to be on the safe side, but this leads to noise levels that I am not happy about as I am a stickler for having an ultra quiet machine where the loudest component is probably my 7200 spin HD. I guess if I'm doing the same kind of things on the Mac side of things as I am on the PC side of things (web browsing, downloading, unraring, etc) then CPU temps are going to be pretty much the same in either OS but I would still prefer to be able to keep an eye on the CPU temp for piece of mind. I only have a Celeron D 325J at the moment with a stock HSF on it but I plan to put a midrange P4 in soon albeit with a Zalman cooler. It will be then that I will really need to know core temps. I find the thermistor that came with my case that displays CPU temp on a front panel LCD to be wildly inaccurate compared with Speedfans readings. Would it be a huge job to knock up a quick app to display core temp? Is it as simple as reading a CPU status register? Maybe IA32_THERM_STATUS register or something similar? Any suggestions? cmonkey Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 (edited) Yes, now Hardware Monitor 3.2 is Universal: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24043 But this detects no sensors on my box, so I think it is for Apple hardware only. EDIT: Apple hardware or not , this should at least read my CPU's temperature. I now think this probably a 10.4.4 versus 10.4.3 issue. So I am looking for anyway to read the CPU temperature in OS X. Anyone? Edited January 25, 2006 by bofors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-47801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 (edited) I have look around quite a bit for CPU temperature monitoring (outside of just rebooting and reading the BIOS data). It looks like there are few FreeBSD utilities that could be easily ported to Darwin (if necessary): /usr/ports/sysutils/lmmon /usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon /usr/ports/sysutils/healthd http://www.monkey.org/freebsd/archive/free...4/msg00082.html Edited January 25, 2006 by bofors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-47846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 i've tried compiling them. but i'm getting an 'configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.' error gonna see if i can fix this somehow. But with no exp. at all it might take a while any tips anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 the error seems to be related to broken CFLAGS just found '.include <bsd.prog.mk>' in the make file, maybe this can't be found Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Has anyone tried temp monitors for Windows with Darwine? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 i just tried hardware monitor, mobomonitor, and speed fan but the y couldn't read the sensors. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Thanks, is there any open source thing to read sensors? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-.- Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 Asus has a pretty cool moniter but it's for creepy Windows only, I think they need to get with the program and make it work on OS X and Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-69748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alc0h0lic Posted March 6, 2006 Share Posted March 6, 2006 ioreg -l shows no registered sensors and so does system_profiler I doubt that it is possible without writing your own sensor interface. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-70000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
inmotion Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 johnniecarcinogen how did you get speedfan for mac??? edit: nvm... i got it running in darwine but have same problem as you grrr retarded laptop fan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-73912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted March 27, 2006 Share Posted March 27, 2006 ioreg -l shows no registered sensors and so does system_profiler I doubt that it is possible without writing your own sensor interface. So does this mean we would have to write kext using IOKit? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-83973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alc0h0lic Posted March 31, 2006 Share Posted March 31, 2006 Perhaps, I have no experience with IOKit... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-86584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
setec Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 johnniecarcinogen how did you get speedfan for mac??? I would say that is either photoshopped or its a MAC OS Window Skin under XP. They don't make a version o SpeedFan for Mac, according to their website. http://www.almico.com/sffaq.php Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-88657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted April 4, 2006 Share Posted April 4, 2006 I would say that is either photoshopped or its a MAC OS Window Skin under XP. They don't make a version o SpeedFan for Mac, according to their website. http://www.almico.com/sffaq.php Actually it is the windows version running on OS X using Darwine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2511-is-there-a-native-cpu-temperature-monitoring-app/#findComment-88866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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