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    Prog for monitoring HDD and/or RAM temps?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by ECKS, May 21, 2011.

  1. ECKS

    ECKS Notebook Prophet

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    Anything free out there that can monitor HDD or Ram temperatures? CPUID's HWMonitor only shows CPU and GPU temps, which just about every prog out there monitors by default...

    Thanks!
     
    ECKS, May 21, 2011
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    CPUID's HWMonitor also shows hard drive temperatures, battery levels and voltages etc etc. What happens to be support for your particular setup will show.

    If your on 64 bit then the 64 bit version tends to show more than the 32 bit due to the 64 bit drivers. I recently found one newer version of HWMonitor showing less info on my machine than an older one I was using.

    Ram doesnt tend to have temp sensors.
     
    RainMotorsports, May 21, 2011
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    Ya I think the one on my R3 shows less than the one on my dinodesktop. The one on desktop shows HDD temps, whilst the one on R3 doesn't....
     
    ECKS, May 21, 2011
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    Azureal Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, I wish there was a nice neat app that showed all of the R3s sensors, temps, fan speeds, etc.

    It's a bummer to have to hodge podge all of these different apps together to get a clear picture of how things are performing. Too bad Dell doesn't provide an API to access all of the sensor ports because I would write an app to display them.

    Maybe I'll look into that. A new project ...
     
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    So what program shows HDD and RAM temps? Cuz my HWMonitor doesn't (version 1.17). And there's no way to enable that setting or anything either.
     
    ECKS, May 22, 2011
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    Have you ram with temperature sensors? If not then whats to read?
     
    RainMotorsports, May 22, 2011
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    Dunno. It's the stock Samsung ram that R3s come with. How about the HDD (also the stock one)?
     
    ECKS, May 22, 2011
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