All you need for Monitoring your temps. and more.

Everything you need for monitoring your temps. and more is below.

a brief description can be found at the bottom of this post.

3Dmark06 HERE

3D Mark Vantage HERE (you will only be able to run the free version once and then have to buy)

CPU-Z HERE

GPU-Z HERE GPU-Z is best for GPU temps as you can track them over time and also it will show changes in clock speeds over time!

HW Monitor HERE

HD Tune HERE

Riva Tuner HERE

Core Temp HERE

Real Temp HERE

FRAPS HERE

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software description

3Dmark06 The Gamers' Benchmark

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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 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!

 

Nice! I just saw a post about someone not knowing how to check his temps

 

thats why i posted it

i did post this over a year ago but it didnt get stickied so its somewhere down below with all the other thousands of posts in archive heaven.

 

+rep and sticky

 

Awesome post.. I say, make this a sticky. +rep

 

nice! + rep + sticky!

 

Well done! +rep.

 

nice job here + rep

 

Riva tuner FTW!!!

 

thanks for the reps guys.

im not worthy.

 

why isn't this sticky?

 

what was the point of this thread?

Mine has been up for much longer.... since Oct 2008

Monitoring Notebook Temps: nVidia & ATI, CPU, HDD

 

BUMP! Excellent, been looking for something like this

 

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