Fan speed + CPU temperature displayed wrong?

Hey guys. I've been writing my bachelors thesis on my Mac for about a month now so it's been on pretty much non-stop. The thing is that I mainly use Office Word. So no flash and stuff that would make the fan speed up that fast. It's not hot in my room either. Thing is that it is possible that there is some dust there and I will check that out once I'm done with this thesis.
I have SMC Fan Control and SSD Fan Control installed. The rpm is very often (80% of the time) up to 6500rpm. It shows the same rpm on SMC F.C. and SSD F.C.. What I don't understand is why the two different programs show a 30degrees celsius (86 fahrenheit) difference. SMC often shows the temp. above 105 degrees celsius (221 fahrenheit) whereas SSD will say it's 75 celsius (167 fahrenheit) at the same time. Also 105 celsius really doesn't sound good.
On the top right you can see SMC with 83 celsius and the open program is SSD with 55 celsius
Do you guys know these programs? Do you understand the difference shown in the display?
Thank you!!

Allan wrote:Or it means that the rest of the world is not in the Australian timezone and is just emerging from bed. (I'm in Brisbane)
no worries.....i was just checking if anyone knew if a kernel compile was avoidable, becasue once you do it once you have to keep on comiling the kernel if you want a new one.....oh well it doesn't seem that i'll have this problem as it doesn;t look like the patches are updaed very often
hang on what am i talking about, this is why i'm using arch linux.....to be a nerd and do everything by hand....;)
Oh and i did have a proper read through the README file and no mention of any dependancies is made (is was quite a short readme file whose only useful information was "do ./configure , make , make install"
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