HWMonitor, temperature monitor alternative
With the install of Vista, I have had some issues with my system monitoring software. The new ASUS PC Probe II leaves windows all over the place and is difficult to read and quickly check the temps.
The nVidia hardware monitor worked for a short time up until I installed some other nVidia drivers which broke it. I shortly also learned that it wasn’t supposed to work in Vista either =/
So I was out of options, I had nothing to monitor my system with. I am a little nuerotic about it, I am constantly worried that my old hardware will melt the next time I play a game or a fan will fail and the computer won’t tell me in time. I have been nursing my computer for the past year, to keep it ticking over until I get a new machine.
CPUID’s Hardware Monitor – http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php solved all these issues. It hooks into all the sensors on your machine and reports thier values. I now have a one application that soaks up very little CPU time to monitor everything on my system. Even some sensors that I didn’t know I had!
It can get a few things wrong, there are a couple of my sensors that don’t move or report wrong values. They have a pro version for 20 euros and even a development SDK for 999 euros… SDK is a bit much for just me, might get pro after a while.
