What is the best program for monitoring CPU temperatures?
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ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
+1 for HWMonitor
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
+1 for Speccy too! Though I use that for describing what's installed rather than temps (though it does give them).
SpyderTracks
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+1 for Speccy too! Though I use that for describing what's installed rather than temps (though it does give them).
+1 for Speccy. I would use HWMonitor, but for some reason it doesn't register my dGPU, which Speccy does. I actually have Speedfan, Speccy and HWMonitor installed and check the temps on all of them to make sure I get an accurate reading.
Without a doubt MSI Afterburner, you can monitor a stack load of things and add them to an OSD to show while you are gaming. A invaluable tool for keeping tabs on temps across the whole system while gaming.
I use it to monitor FPS, GPU temp and load, CPU cores temps and load, and VRam SysRam usage.
Here's a video of me gaming (badly) with afterburner displaying in the top left corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWoQSOhVNEs
Mick
I use it to monitor FPS, GPU temp and load, CPU cores temps and load, and VRam SysRam usage.
Here's a video of me gaming (badly) with afterburner displaying in the top left corner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWoQSOhVNEs
Mick
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The thing I don't like about Afterburner is the fiddly little readout and it not being clear if the label refers to the thing above or below.
For me a combination of HW Monitor and GPU-Z (which has really good GPU monitoring) gives me all that I want to know.
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The OSD can be altered in size, position and colour. And be customised to show as much or as little info as you like.
Not only is it great to watch the temps and make sure nothing is cooking, but it helped me diagnose stuttering I experienced while gaming. I could see that the gpu wasnt being used at 100% while playing games, which led me to inspect the Nvidia driver settings and discover the power managment setting at 'Adaptive' was having a negative effect of game performance.
Its personal choice at the end of the day, but works great for me
Not only is it great to watch the temps and make sure nothing is cooking, but it helped me diagnose stuttering I experienced while gaming. I could see that the gpu wasnt being used at 100% while playing games, which led me to inspect the Nvidia driver settings and discover the power managment setting at 'Adaptive' was having a negative effect of game performance.
Its personal choice at the end of the day, but works great for me
NilSatis
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The OSD can be altered in size, position and colour. And be customised to show as much or as little info as you like.
Not only is it great to watch the temps and make sure nothing is cooking, but it helped me diagnose stuttering I experienced while gaming. I could see that the gpu wasnt being used at 100% while playing games, which led me to inspect the Nvidia driver settings and discover the power managment setting at 'Adaptive' was having a negative effect of game performance.
Its personal choice at the end of the day, but works great for me
MSI Afterburner for me too. For reasons above, and the fact that it offers the ability to set custom fan profiles and also minimal detection levels in some games where a hook would be determined to be a hack etc. Allows you to monitor the steadily increasing ram usage of GTA V too. :sweatdrop: and at first sometimes makes you lose the ability to focus on gaming without staring at fps/temp levels. Which doesn't do the gaming much good.
HWMonitor registers your dGPU if you start it AFTER the dGPU gets called upon. i.e. Start a game, Alt-Tab out then start HWMonitor.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
SpyderTracks
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Now isn't that interesting? Very many thanks for the tip! +rep deserved and given.
Ditto!