[pHaestus]

If it would help I have a Duron (Morgan) 1100 upon which I'd be happy to solder twisted pair and a diode reader. The problem is that unless you can find some way to hack the SMBus that it'll only report with 1C resolution in MBM. There was someone on overclockers forums that had written a program for NetBSD that gave the 6657 the ful 0.125C res; might want to search there. The added resolution really IS needed.

I use the 6655 evaluation system from maxim that includes a SMBus to parallel adapter and software. It was around $100US shipped from them though and so may be more than you'd care to invest in the package.

Another option would be to send me a "flux block" and let me run a few tests on my setup. The advantage would be that I could get a lot better temperature measurements. The disadvantages would be that I'd be out of waterblock testing for a week or two and that I am sorta leery about mounting this thing on my test CPU.