Coretemp driver readings change wildly (seem to be reading CPU load)

Hey all. I've been using lm-sensors for a while now to get CPU temperatures, but I never had a monitor open to watch them (I would just pop open a terminal and run sensors).
I recently set up conky, and I'm noticing some very strange behavior with my CPU temps: they seem to be measuring load instead of actual temperature. The idle temp is 36C, and the second I start up an intensive calculation, it jumps to 60 and just stays there (no additional rise over 5 minutes). Then, when I stop the calculation, the temps instantly drop back to idle (this part makes me suspect it's not a heatsink issue).
The same behavior pops up in Windows as well, using both Coretemp and SpeedFan. Does anyone know if there's a place I could look to get the "correct" temperature, or what might be causing this? The internet is a flurry of suggestions, but most of the posts I could find were either hardware-related or bugs in drivers.
In case it's relevant, lm_sensors loaded the coretemp and it87 modules.

Try to figure out where exactly those sensors are located, I mean their position inside/near the case/chip/circuit. Maybe they are supposed to work that way/there is an interference near by like an em noisy fan/your hardware falls into category b. Try to confirm/rule out that behaviour on the same hardware with other users/owners.

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Hello all,
Can anyone PLEASE help?
I have just had my hard drive upgraded/changed from the original 640GB drive to a new 2TB drive. I've also had an additional 4GB of RAM added to now give me 8GB RAM.
Absolutely everything else seems to be working fine (unusual for me and I'm often at the end of bad luck in such circumstances). The only thing I'm having problems with is syncing my iPod Classic with iTunes. Incidentally, I have the latest version of iTunes and my iPod software was up to date the last time I checked.
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Now, it hangs... and hangs... and hangs... and hangs.
During this, I notice that "Manually manage music and videos" is ticked (which I didn't have ticked before), and also 'Enable disc use' is also ticked, although greyed out.
Occasionally, the spinning beach ball will disappear and the pointer will return, but this is very very briefly and I have a split-second to try unticking - first - the "Manually manage music and videos" box and then - later, if I'm lucky - untick the 'Enable disc use' box. However, on the odd occasion I've managed this, I haven't been able to go further except for two occasions when I managed to click "Apply". The iPoid on those to occasions started to update... but went nowhere... it just did nothing.
When the thing finally just hangs and hangs, I eventually have to 'force quit' iTunes and unplug the iPod without first ejecting. There was one other occasion when I managed to - split-second when the spinning beach ball disappeared - to click "eject" and the iPod succesfully did so.
There were a couple of occasions in the past when I had trouble with my iPhone and was told to delete/trash the iPhone photo cache folder. Remembering this, I tried this for the iPod (iPod photo cache) and it made no difference... same situation.
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I would like to disable these specific messages. I realize I can disable all messages from server monitor regarding disk statuses, but then I would be turning off messages about failures and actual problems.
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I know this post is old but this has recently cropped up for me. I have been backing up with Time Machine for months without a single alert. It started happening after I replaced the failed battery on my RAID card. A coincidence...however the prolonged down time surely caused an SMC (and perhaps PRAM) reset which I assume triggered the change in behavior.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5139
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total 16
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drwxr-xr-x@ 14 root admin   476 4 Jun 14:44 .
drwxrwxr-t@ 43 root admin 1462 4 Jun 14:43 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin    37 4 Jun 14:44 .serverBackupSignature
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 addressBookServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 calendarServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 root admin   170 4 Jun 14:44 iChatServer
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drwxr-xr-x@ 4 root admin   136 4 Jun 14:43 openDirectory
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drwxr-xr-x@ 23 root admin   782 4 Jun 14:44 sharePoints
drwxr-xr-x@ 8 root admin   272 4 Jun 14:44 webServer
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root admin    68 4 Jun 14:44 wikiServer
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Jun 4 16:10:18 yourservername servermgrd[75]: servermgr_backup: TimeMachinePostBackupHook done.
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Jun 4 16:10:29 yourservername com.apple.backupd[25117]: Backup completed successfully.
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Tue Jun 4 16:08:36 BST 2013 - Number of drives change from 4 to 5.
Tue Jun 4 16:08:48 BST 2013 - Number of drives change from 5 to 4.
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