Comments on: Repair Tool of the Week: CPUID Hardware Monitor

By: techytype

techytype — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:40:33 +0000

download link seems to be broken

By: Takarii

Takarii — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:30:52 +0000

Thanks for the great tool.

By: tryinghard

tryinghard — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:36:13 +0000

Now, this is great, a PC health monitoring application available? In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well as hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature. Special hardware monitors, power supplies series are supported too.

By: Takarii

Takarii — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:40:38 +0000

Thanks for your prompt replies Hank – think I’ll have to trust Core-Temp and CPUID Hardware Monitor since they both seem to agree on my CPU temperature. Just makes me wonder how much hotter my CPU has been running than I thought eheh, especially since I had it overclocked.

By: Hank

Hank — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:39:46 +0000

Core temps are usually the hottest unless your PSU and GPU are outputting so much heat and you have poor ventilation. Generally if that is the case your cores won’t be able to cool and still end up hotter. I rarely even glance at the case temp unless the CPU is also running hot to see if it is due to poor ventilation. I should probly give it a better look but since most CPU coolers in the end rely on the air in the case they won’t cool the CPU below the case temp.

By: Gunslinger

Gunslinger — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:00:55 +0000

This program seems to be extremely accurate. It is within 1

By: Takarii

Takarii — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:03:55 +0000

You’re right, they seem to be polling different sensors. I’ve tried using my motherboards tool, but it only reports case temperature. What would solve this problem for me would be knowing the relationship between core and case temperatures, as all the monitors report exactly the same case temperature. Would you say that in general the case temperature is around the same temperature as the cores, or that the cores are usually around 10-12°C hotter than the case temperature?

By: Hank

Hank — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:37:51 +0000

Core-Temp is my prefered temp monitoring tool for newer systems as it gets the data from the processor which is more acurate. I don’t know if this tool uses the same method or not I would compare the two and see how close to figure how good and accurate it is. I also like to compare them to the motherboards provided monitoring tool. I have yet to find more then 1C or 2C difference in them which I am not concerned with.

By: Takarii

Takarii — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:03:18 +0000

There seems to be a discrepancy in CPU core temperatures reported by this utility and SpeedFan. CPUID Hardware Monitors temperatures are always around 14-18°C higher for each core (the gap increases to 18°C at the low end and decreases slightly to 14°C at higher temperatures). How do I know which values to trust?

By: gunslinger

gunslinger — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:34:25 +0000

Looks like something that would come in handy for overclocking, not that I do much of that. But It would be easier to tell if a customers CPU was over heating causing random shutdowns.