everything you need to monitor your temps and more

(Links tested and Updated January 2015)


Disclaimer: all software is used is at owners risk



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Software Description



3DMark http://www.guru3d.com/files_get/3dmark_download,1.html

The new 3DMark includes everything you need to benchmark your hardware. With three all new tests you can bench everything from smartphones and tablets, to notebooks and home PCs, to the latest high-end, multi-GPU gaming desktops. And it's not just for Windows. With 3DMark you can compare your scores with Android and iOS devices too. It's the most powerful and flexible 3DMark we've ever created.





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3Dmark11 >>> Video card benchmarks - Best graphics card test - 3DMark


3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the graphics performance of gaming PCs.
Designed for testing DirectX 11 hardware running on Windows 7 and Windows Vista the benchmark includes six all new benchmark tests that make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

After running the tests 3DMark gives your system a score with larger numbers indicating better performance. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.




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3Dmark06 The Gamers' Benchmark >>> Futuremark - world's most popular benchmarks and PC performance tests - Benchmarks - 3DMark06 - Introduction

(Warning: 3Dmark06 should not be used to test modern hardware) pre 2012 only


3DMark®06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today. Futuremark's exclusive Online ResultBrowser web service tracks and compares 3DMark06 scores.




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3Dmark Vantage >>> 3DMark Vantage for DirectX 10 video card benchmark tests


DirectX10 Benchmarking
3DMark® Vantage is the new industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest hardware. 3DMark® Vantage is based on a completely new rendering engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10, the new graphics API from Microsoft.




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CPU-Z >>> Download CPU-Z 1.59 - FileHippo.com



CPU-Z is a freeware detection program base on the Panopsys hardware detection engine.
Cpu-Z allows you to get some info on your computer, including:
￭ Processor name and vendor
￭ Core stepping and process
￭ Processor package
￭ Processor current core voltage
￭ Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier
￭ Partial overclock detection
￭ Processor features, including supported instructions sets.
￭ L1 to L3 cache information : location, size, speed, technology.
￭ Motherboard information : name, vendor, BIOS, chipset, memory, AGP.
￭ Memory information : size, type, timings, specifications.

CPU-Z also provides several tools :
￭ A complete report, that includes CPUID, MSR, PCI device list, SPD, DMI.
￭ A cache latency calculation tool

This tool computes the real latency of each cache memory level. Notice that the reported sizes may not be the correct ones on CPUs that use an exclusive L2 (for example a Duron will report a 128Kb L2 cache size instead of 64Kb, because the L1 size in included).

Moreover, notice that using this tool if the CPUs is heavy loaded can provide bad results. Please use the "Refresh" button to restart the calculation.




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GPU-Z >>> http://filehippo.com/download_gpuz

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

* Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
* Displays adapter, GPU and display information
* Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
* Validation of results
* No installation required
* Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported)




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HW Monitor CPU/ID >>> http://www.cpuid.com/


HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.
Special hardware monitors such as abit® uGuru and Gigabyte® ODIN™ power supplies serie are supported too.

HWMonitor does not need to be installed. Just unzip the files in a directory and run the .exe. In order to remove the program, just delete the files.
The program does not copy any file in any directory, neither writes in the registry.




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HD Tune >>> HD Tune website


HD Tune description
A hard disk utility that can test burst speed, temperatures, benchmark and more
HD Tune was designed as a HDD application.

Here are some key features of "HD Tune":

· Benchmark: measures the raw performance
· Transfer Rate
· Access Time
· CPU Usage
· Burst Rate
· Hard Disk information which includes firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
· Hard Disk Health
· S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
· Temperature
· Power On Time
· Copy text to clipboard
· Copy screenshot to clipboard




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Riva Tuner >>> http://www.guru3d.com/content_page/rivatuner.html

RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.
RivaTuner supports all NVIDIA display adapters starting from Riva TNT family up to the latest GeForce 7 series and widest range of NVIDIA drivers starting from the oldest Detonator 2.08 up to the newest ForceWare drivers family.




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Core Temp >>> Core Temp


Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
Now Vista ready! (x86 and x64)

The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It's also completely motherboard independent.




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Real Temp >>> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/download/Real-Temp,0301-27484.html


Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core and Quad Core processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TjMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TjMax will decrease. If it reaches zero your processor will start to throttle or slow down so maximizing your distance away from TjMax will help your computer run at full speed and more reliably too.
Main Features

* Reads temperature information from all Intel Core based processors.
* Ability to individually calibrate Real Temp for each core of your CPU.
* Program is based on temperature data gathered using a Fluke 62 IR Thermometer.
* Test Sensors feature will check your DTS sensors for any sign of problems.
* Keeps track of Minimum and Maximum temperatures with full logging features.
* Reporting and logging of the Intel PROCHOT# thermal throttle activity bit.
* Quick, very accurate and repeatable benchmark.
* Displays MHz, TjMax, VID, CPUID, APIC ID and Calibration settings.
* No installation or registry modifications required.
* Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (32/64 bit)




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FRAPS >>> FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software




Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want a new shot. Your screen captures are automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 2560x1600 with custom frame rates from 10 to 100 frames per second!





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Intel Driver Update Utility http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu

Automatically identify and find drivers

The Intel® Driver Update Utility keeps your system up-to-date. It detects which driver updates
are relevant to your computer, and then helps you install them quickly and easily




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Battery Care >>> BatteryCare


BatteryCare is a software created to optimize the usage and performance of the modern laptop's battery
It monitors the battery's discharge cycles and helps increasing it's autonomy and improving its lifetime.

Features

* Battery's discharge cycles monitoring

The advanced algorithm accurately records when a complete discharge cycle is performed.
When the configured number of discharge cycles is reached, a notification balloon pops up to remind that a full discharge is required.

* Complete battery information
It calculates the statistical remaining time in laptops that don't support the battery time left information and only list the charge percentage.
Shows all the detailed information about the battery, such as wear level, capacities, consumption, manufacturer, etc.

* Notification area information
In battery mode, the notification icon shows the remaining time and percentage of battery

* Automatic power plans switching
Depending on the power source of the computer, BatteryCare can automatically select the power plan you prefer.

* Control over Windows Aero and demanding Services
Automatically disable the graphics accelerated theme in Windows Vista and/or demanding services that degrade battery lifetime.
Once the laptop stops running on batteries, the theme is re-enabled and the stopped services are restored.

* Auto-updates
No need to trouble in downloading new installers, when a new version is available, the program updates itself.

* Lightweight in the system
Given the concern about the battery optimization, BatteryCare does not interfere with the system performance. It requires only a mere 0,1% of Processor and Memory resources.





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Battery Bar >>> Osiris Development - BatteryBar, the most accurate battery meter for Windows


BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery's status in the taskbar.

BatteryBar constantly monitors the status of your battery as you use your laptop. As it monitors your battery, it keeps historical data on your battery and provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.






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HWM BlackBox 2.0 >>> Download HWM BlackBox 2.3.3820.11306 Free - A useful utility that allows you to view detailed hardware information - Softpedia

A useful utility that allows you to view detailed hardware information

HWM BlackBox is a useful tool created to offer you precise details on the hardware components of your computer to the maximum.

As well as providing you with you with in-depth information about hardware such as the processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card, it also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures.




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MemTest >>> MemTest: RAM reliability tester for Windows

MemTest is a RAM reliability tester that runs under Windows. It evaluates the ability of your computer to store and retrieve data accurately. A correctly functioning computer should be able to do both these tasks with 100% accuracy day in and day out. A computer that fails these tests, perhaps because of old hardware, damaged hardware, or poorly configured hardware, will be less stable and crash more often. Even worse, it will become even less stable over time as corrupted data is written to your hard disk.

By running MemTest you can ensure that your computer's RAM is correctly functioning. It is wise to test this when you buy a new computer, install new RAM, or change the configuration of your machine (for instance, to overclock it). Are you the sort of user who likes to push the performance of your machine to the edge? Relying upon whether your machine will boot after your new BIOS tweaks is a poor way to determine the safety of your new settings. Use MemTest as a true test of stability.

New in version 4.0: The MemTest Deluxe bootable CD now supports 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs.





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ATTO Disk Benchmark >>> http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/ATTO-Disk-Benchmark.shtml


Aged but very popular harddisk benchmarking tool. Offers nice features to benchmark RAID setups.




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CrystalDiskMark >>> CrystalDiskMark - Software - Crystal Dew World


* Measure sequential reads/writes speed
* Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed
* Select test data (Random, 0Fill, 1Fill)
* Theme support
* Multi-Language support




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Who Crashed >>> Resplendence Software - WhoCrashed, automatic crash dump analyzer


Just released: version 3.00
WhoCrashed reveals the drivers responsible for crashing your computer

Whenever a computer running Windows suddenly reboots without displaying any notice or blue screen of death, the first thing that is often thought about is a hardware failure. In reality, most crashes are caused by malfunctioning device drivers and kernel modules. In case of a kernel error, most computers running Windows do not show a blue screen unless they are configured to do so. Instead these systems suddenly reboot without any notice.

WhoCrashed shows the drivers which have been crashing your computer with a single click. In most cases it can pinpoint the offending drivers which have been causing misery on your computer system in the past. It does post-mortem crashdump analysis and presents all gathered information in a comprehensible way.

Normally, debugging skills and a set of debugging tools are required to do post-mortem crash dump analysis. By using this utility you do not need any debugging skills to be able to find out what drivers are causing trouble to your computer.

If your computer crashed and produced a blue screen

It is suggest that you run WhoCrashed. WhoCrashed will analyze the crash dump files available on your computer and create a conclusion. It will inform you about responsible drivers and offer suggestions on how to proceed.




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NovaBench Computer Benchmark Tool >>> NovaBench - Free Computer Benchmark Software



Test
Test the main components of your computer quickly with NovaBench.
Testing generally takes only 1-2 minutes, and produces detailed information and an overall system score.

· Floating Point Test - Tests CPU's floating point arithmetic speed
· Integer Test - Tests CPU's integer arithmetic speed
· MD5 Hashing Speed - General CPU test
· 3D Graphics Test - Tests GPU with a heavily shader dependent 3D scene
· RAM Speed - Tests RAM read and write speed
· Disk Write Speed - Test write speed of primary or selected storage device

Compare
Compare your computer's score and system component results to others.
Make informed upgrade decisions, and easily detect performance bottlenecks.

All results submitted to NovaBench.com are verified for authenticity.

Share
Build a profile of your NovaBench results, and link it easily on social networks.
You can also create an image for your forum signature, blog, or website.


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Sandra Light 2013 >>> Sandra Lite 2013


SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, and so on.





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HWiNFO 64bit - 32bit - DOS >>> HWiNFO


HWiNFO™, HWiNFO32™ and HWiNFO64™ are professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies and standards. These tools are designed to collect and present the maximum amount of information possible about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts as well. Retrieved information is presented in a logical and easily understandable form and can be exported into various types of reports.





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GPU Caps Viewer >>> http://www.ozone3d.net/gpu_caps_viewer/

GPU Caps Viewer is an OpenGL and OpenCL graphics card utility for Windows XP and Vista (32/64-bit). This tool offers the following features:

quick view of the graphics configuration (graphics card / GPU type, amount of video memory, drivers version)
display of the main OpenGL capabilities (OpenGL version, texture size, number of texture units, etc.)
display of OpenCL API support and extensions.
display of the OpenGL extensions supported by your graphics card or display of all existing OpenGL extensions no matter what graphics card you have. For each extension, you can open its description webpage available at the OpenGL Extension Registry or at NVIDIA's OpenGL Extensions spec. Very handy for graphics developers!
display of NVIDIA CUDA level support
display of the system configuration: CPU type and speed, amount of systeme memory, operating system, PhysX version
display of the GPU core temperature
GPU Burner or Stability Test: allows to overheat the GPU in order to test the graphics card stability. You can start several stress test demos in the same time in order to make your graphics card working to the maximum.
list of links related to your graphics card: graphics drivers and graphics cards reviews. These links are regularly updated.
full report in text and XML format. This kind of report is useful for developers who needs an outline of the customer graphics system (for support purposes for example).
graphics card validation: your graphics card data is sent to oZone3D.Net server and in return you receive a link on the validation web page. You can use that validation in benchmarks or to help graphics applications developers to solve specific problems. See this page for further explanation.




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PassMark Performance Test >>> http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest ™ allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.

Find out if your PC is performing at its best.
Compare the performance of your machine to similar machines.
Measure the effect of configuration changes and upgrades.
Avoid paying big bucks for poor performance.
Make objective independent measurements on which to base your
purchasing decision.
Use the advanced tests to create you own benchmark scenarios

Twenty-eight standard benchmark tests are available in six test suites plus there are seven advanced testing windows for custom benchmarking.

Standard test suites

CPU tests Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more
2D graphics tests Drawing lines, bitmaps, fonts, text, and GUI elements
3D graphics tests Simple to complex DirectX 3D graphics and animations
Disk tests Reading, writing and seeking within disk files
Memory tests Allocating and accessing memory speed and efficiency
CD / DVD test Test the speed of your CD or DVD drive




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Nvidia Inspector >>> http://downloads.guru3d.com/NVIDIA-Inspector-1.9.6.6-download-2612.html

NVIDIA Inspector is a handy application that reads out driver and hardware information for GeForce graphics cards

The nVIDIA Inspector Tool is basically an nVIDIA only GPU-Z utility but with a decent OverClocking feature and you can set your clocks and fan speeds. Orbmu2k has released this program, which seems to NVIDIA graphics cards and offers information on tools for GPU and memory clock speed, GPU operating voltage and fan speed increase.

This is a quite simple user interface with an application that will rely entirely NVIDIA drivers, so there is reason to be downloaded from NVIDIA's website WHQL-certified driver. The program offers roughly the same information as the GPU-Z program, but with a few extra spice box.




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MSI Afterburner >>> http://downloads.guru3d.com/Afterburner-2.0.0-Final-download-2562.html

MSI announced today that its Afterburner V2.2.2 overclocking utility and its Kombustor testing utility is now available for all gamers to download worldwide.

This version supports the control of South Island and Kepler card, if you get the card, you may try to play it.

Changes list includes:

Changes list includes:
Increased upper allowed power limit for power limit adjustment slider on some extreme editions of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 series graphics cards
ATIPDLXX.DLL is no longer included in MSI Afterburner distributive
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.3.4. New version gives you the following improvements:
o Fixed framerate calculation for DirectX10/DirectX11 applications, which actively use presentation testing during rendering (e.g. Max Payne 3)




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MSI Kombustor >>> http://www.geeks3d.com/20120423/msi-kombustor-2-3-0-download-gpu-stress-test-opengl-direct3d-physx/

For the MSI AfterBurner we are creating a new function, a stress test which will be called Kombustor. This is standalone benchmark/stability test tool based on FurMark, but now with big and furry MSI logo. You can either run in separately, or link with Afterburner to read more detailed information during stress test.

After installing Kombustor, you can simply press the "K" button on Afterburner 1.5.0 and instantly launch 3D stability test. Just that simple! You can also click the Kombustor icon on the desktop to launch GUI to customize your testing preference.


Features of MSI Kombustor

Based on FurMark technology
Latest OpenGL 3.2 rendering path
Benchmark and stability test mode
Link with Afterburner 1.5.0+
GPU temperature monitoring
Fullscreen or windowed for each type of run mode
Window size selection (standard or custom)
MSAA samples selection
Benchmarking parameters: time based or frames based
Xtreme Burning Mode for Xtreme tester




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FurMark Stress Test >>> http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

FurMark is a very intensive OpenGL benchmark that uses fur rendering algorithms to measure the performance of the graphics card. Fur rendering is especially adapted to overheat the GPU and that's why FurMark is also a perfect stability and stress test tool (also called GPU burner) for the graphics card.




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Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) >>> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us...p-boards-software-extreme-tuning-utility.html

Tweak to your heart’s content using the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU). Whether overclocking the CPU, memory, and system clocks, or monitoring system temperatures, voltages and fan speeds, Intel® XTU allows you to tune, tweak and cool.





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Throttlestop >>> http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2288/throttlestop-6-00/

NBR Throttlestop Guide bu Unclewebb > http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...arket-upgrades/531329-throttlestop-guide.html

ThrottleStop is a small application designed to monitor for and correct the three main types of CPU throttling that are being used on many laptop computers.

The left side of ThrottleStop contains a variety of options which can be used to bypass CPU throttling and on the right side is a Monitoring panel that shows you the current state of each thread on your CPU.

Some laptops are using clock modulation and multiplier reductions to lower the performance and power consumption of your computer. This is done deliberately to either allow your computer to run cooler or to allow your laptop to operate with a power adapter that is not sufficient to fully power your laptop and recharge its battery at the same time.

When using ThrottleStop, it is strongly recommended to monitor power consumption at the wall with a Kill-a-Watt meter or similar device and make sure that you don't exceed the power capabilities of your power adapter. Use of ThrottleStop to bypass these throttling schemes is at your own risk and can result in permanent damage to your power adapter or computer or both which may not be covered by your warranty.




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SSD Life http://ssd-life.com/eng/SSDLife-Freeware.html

Today, more and more users decide to replace conventional hard drives in their desktop PC’s and laptops with modern, silent and fast solid state drives (SSD). Since the price of these new devices is still rather high and they are often used for storing sensitive data, regular checks of the status of these drives can be an efficient means of early problem detection and can prevent potential data loss. Among all other disk management tools, there are specialized applications that are created specifically for SSD devices and support the majority of controllers and storage devices available on the market. One of such applications is SSDlife – and it’s absolutely free!






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CrystalDiskInfo http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

caution- adds enabled. make sure you untick the extra bloatware and free toolbar

CrystalDiskInfo is one of the tools we turn to when we want as much useful data as possible about our system's hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) as well as many external drives. This free system utility monitors the health and status of your drives and displays the information in a compact, easy-to-read interface. CrystalDiskInfo monitors and displays your drives' temperature and SMART data, and it can even alert you when things start to go wrong.





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Open Hardware Monitor http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

The Open Hardware Monitor supports most hardware monitoring chips found on todays mainboards. The CPU temperature can be monitored by reading the core temperature sensors of Intel and AMD processors. The sensors of ATI and Nvidia video cards as well as SMART hard drive temperature can be displayed. The monitored values can be displayed in the main window, in a customizable desktop gadget, or in the system tray. The free Open Hardware Monitor software runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7 and any x86 based Linux operating systems without installation.





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Wise Care 365 http://www.wisecleaner.com/wisecare365.html

Cutting-edged PC cleaner

Wise Care 365 is a bundle of important registry, disk, and other system utilities for your PC. Easy to use and effective, Wise Care 365 is the best solution to improve your PC's performance. Get Wise Care 365 and your computer will never run slow again!




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All excellent programs listed above.
Thanks for taking the time out of your schedule to make this.

 

your welcome mate. had the list on here since 2009 but the thread was closed due to the official page with most of the things on it. problem was they were spread over 20 pages. only reposted with newer stuff so i could link to it in sig again.

 

Great thread.

I wish they'd update Core Temp. I use it but it is buggy (sometimes the temps don't show in the notification area, or only one does)

You may want to check out SiSoftware Sandra Lite

http://www.filehippo.com/download_sandra_lite/

 

A excellent thread, I can surely say that I will use a lot of those tools

 

wait.. no HWiNFO ?!

 

ill add it

this is where i lost track of what id missed out when the original thread was closed.

anything else you think needs adding just holler.

 

And let's not forget about Throttlestop.
Uncleweb did a very good job

 

What about PowerMark?

It ain't free.. but if someone reseller or so bought this and benchmarked the machines battery power.. it would be wonderful, a great tool to compare battery power and different machines

 

thanks for posting jaug. not seen that one from futuremark before.

i wont add it above as $200 i dont think many will buy it but good idea about a reseller maybe doing tests using it.

at least youve posted it on this thread so members have a choice.

 

I found out my new sager NP9170 shipped yesterday, and I remembered this thread. However, it took me over 30 minutes to find it. I think it should be sticky so people who are receiving their new rigs and want to make sure everything is running correctly can find it easily.

 

hi Rory
its the third time in 4 years i made this thread as mods seem to lock it after a while so i cant add more to it. many people asked for it to be sticky but with no joy.
if you ever need it in the future just remember my name as its all in my signature below.
glad it came in use for you.

 

Threads get automatically locked after a while of inactivity. I don't remember how long it actually takes, you could just ask us to re-open it if it happens again.

 

thanks tijo.
didnt know it was an auto lock after time on this forum.

 

Not a lot of people do, don't worry about it and it really does take a while for threads to get locked. I only figured out there was one a while ago while looking for an older thread.

 

very nice thread.

Only the Atto ssd benchmark link seems to give a 404 page.

Working and updated version here

 

thanks for the link.
it was working about 3 weeks ago as i regularly check them.
ill update it now.

 

finally updated with lots more software for monitoring and benchmarks.

 

You should add the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to the list.
Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU)

 

will do when i get a chance. thanks for posting

 

MrDJ Thanks for this very useful thread. I'm sure that a lot of people will benefit from this as I have. :thumbsup:

 

your welcome sunster168 glad it came in handy.

im going to update it later today with each link next to the description of the software as the list has grown over the years.

updated 11/11/12

 

Great list got loads of those programs on my notebook. But do you know what programs will work on a system with an old Pentium 4? I have checked a few but neither of them can be installed or can display the CPU temps.

 

good question. i guess you tried core temps but did you try hwinfo64

what operating system is it running. with windows 7 the temps dont show in the main window but in the popup box on right of taskbar. i can try and find an older version if its still got xp loaded.

 

it is running on XP. I tried speccy and some other stuff. Thanks for the info ill look into it!

 

updated with ssd life to monitor all ssd's health.

anything new out there ive missed that could be useful to the NBR community.

 

Maybe CrystalDiskInfo if it's still free of ads and such, I've seen a report of the latest Shizuku edition containing some, dunno about the regular edition.

By the way, in case the thread gets old enough for the forum to autolock it like it happened with your previous thread, let us know, we'll reopen it for you.

 

thanks tijo.
now you come to mention it i think crystal disk was on the original post i made about 5 years ago and i had totally forgotten about that one. time to go hunting.

hunted and loaded for you tijo. thanks for the reminder

you were right, it now has adds. caution on loading people and make sure to untick any freeware or toolbars.

 

The root of all evil spam in the world haha

 

Nah, that is Adobe Flash and Software by Oracle like Java. Oh the joys of having the Ask toolbar and McAfee installed if you're not careful.

 

Hey MrDj, any idea why my TrendMicro internet security is flagging the download page for fraps as a dangerous website??? Is there any other utility to display in game frame rates?

 

What is best, most widely used CPU temp monitoring software? I read the entire threads and there are about 6-8 different hardware monitors listed. I am looking for something that is reasonably accurate and can sit in the system tray. Thanks.

 

MSI afterburner using the OSD via rivatuner.

all temperature monitoring utilities read the same sensor (and poll nominally different). i use coretemp. you can configure it on the taskbar like so:

Spoiler

(load, core temps, GPU temp via afterburner)

 

Matt, coretemp looks nice.

I am currently using SpeedFan but I don't like having to to the UAC thing to run it every time I reboot / login to my machine. I only monitor temps well because I am a geek and I like stuff like that but also to ensure that my re-pasting went smoothly. On my Latitude E6500 I have a C2D P8600 @ 2.4GHz. It idle's around 38c and under load (3 browsers 3 different flash games running and VLC playing The Xx) it gets up around 70c. I looked up the CPU info from intel and it would appear the maximum temp is 105c. Based on that I assume I am good to go. I should be this would be like the 300th machine I've re-applied the paste to.

 

Hi
i have no idea why your antivirus is doing that. i use avast internet security and have just downloaded frapps again from my link without any problems. it could be a false positive with trendmicro. it is a safe link so you could add it to your exceptions list to let it download.
as mentioned a lot use msi afterburner as well but ive not used it myself for ingame fps but ive used it for ingame graphs on temperatures.

as mentioned below. i also use core temps and hwinfo64. hwinfo gives a lot more information but can get a bit confusing while core temps is the basic core readouts.
i have done a few tests over the last few years and had all of them running at once and every single one of them gave slightly different readings but it was only by about 5c but when you are hitting the high 80's 5c can make a lot of difference.

first thing i do with any new computer is turn UAC off as its a pain in the a** a lot of people do keep it active though as its the last line of defence for protection.
70c is perfect under load and nothing to worry about. 90c and above is when you need to keep an eye on things and do a clean out of fans and vents as dust can push temps up by at least 10c

hope this thread has helped you all out a bit

 

Hey,

So I went with msi afterburner+HWiNFO and followed the intructions on the link Mattcheau posted, But afterburner is saying my gpu is at 0ºc Which I find strange. I haven't tried running any games yet to see if it makes a diference.

I also have installed HWmonitor and that shows temps on my gpu and funny enough if i start it then afterburner gices me some temps as well. Any Ideas what is going on?

Thanks

 

nope, not heard of that before.

what computer have you got and its spec.
hopefully someone else can advise on that one.

 

I have a P17SM - XMG P703 with i7-4700MQ CPU; GTX 780M; 8Gb DDR3 Crucial.

 

Thanks you very much. I figured the temps were good, but it's always nice to have independent verification. I also switched from SpeedFan to CoreTemp as it shows the temps for each core. More geeky-ness for me.

 

you'll want to run a game. if the card is inactive à la optimus, the system may not be polling the sensor. that said, i'm still able to see GPU temp even if it's not in use on my system -- but that'd be the first thing for you to check.

 

Thanks Mattcheau,

I'll give that a try later today. I'll have to reinstall it though. I tried the beta version but it didn't work, something about beiing expired.

I'll let you know...

Update:

It seems to be working now. Showing temps in tray and in game as well. Super!

Thanks for your help guys.

 

Any recommendations on the best current all-in-one type utilities for win. 8? Was thinking of glaryutilities as a friend suggested it for an older computer long ago.

 

i dont know many out there but what ive used for the past 6 years is this http://www.avg.com/gb-en/pctu_downl...tm_source=google&utm_content=&s_tnt=28935:4:0


its not free but its done its job so far.
tune up has now been taken over by AVG and im not sure that is a good thing or not. only time will tell.

 

Does Wise Care 365 have the same function as CCleaner?
Which one is better?

 

wise care seemed ok and i tested it on the trial version but didnt buy the full package.
i still use cc cleaner and tune up utilitys myself.
wise care is along the same lines of http://www.tune-up.com/ which ive been using the paid version for years but last year it was bought by avg so im not sure if i will get it again this year.