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    Best Temperature Monitors for MBP in OSX & Windows?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by MasterTactician, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. MasterTactician

    MasterTactician Notebook Enthusiast

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    What are your favorite temp. monitoring apps for OSX and Windows that read most or all of the MBP's temp. sensors?
     
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    MasterTactician Notebook Enthusiast

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    And what about for in Windows (vista). Speedfan only gives CPU temps, but is there anything better that detects more sensors?
     
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    Y'know, I spent time looking through Vista gadgets looking for something that was even close to iStat Pro for Windows, and couldn't find it.

    I use iStat Pro on Dashboard. Monitors your CPU usage, RAM usage, hard drive space, temperature, battery charge, battery health and amount of battery charge cycles. Very useful.
     
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    Is there anything better than Speedfan for Windows?
     
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    Xander Paranoid Android

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    I just use the Intel Thermal Analysis Tool - I'm not saying that it's better though. And it has really limited features.

    Maybe you'd have better luck posting a similar thread in the Windows section :).
     
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    I actually went looking for a Vista gadget because someone asked about a temperature gadget on the Windows section. I looked through like 20 pages, searched for it, went for "most downloaded gadgets", everything and couldn't find it :p. That thread went unanswered :D.
     
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    Above and beyond the call, and always appreciated :D.
     
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    Xander Paranoid Android

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    Which MBP do you have? If you have a 2.2/2.4GHz MBP (with NVIDIA 8600m GT GPU) you can monitor the GPU's temperature with NVIDIA nTune.
     
    Xander, Aug 11, 2007
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