Good Temperature Monitor for C2D MBP??

Just got my 17" MBP and it's great!!
I am new to the laptop world, so if someone can recommend a temperature monitor (preferably free) that would be great.
It seems fine, but I'd like to be able to monitor this.
Cheers

It may actually be overkill......
But this is the best one I have found:
http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html
It is an amazing product.
SG
C2D 2.16(XP)/G52.0 DUAL/MDD 1.25 DUAL/867 12 inch/ and many more Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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