Light program that shows GPU and CPU temps?

I'm looking for a light program (ie doesn't take up much memory etc...so as not to effect performance) to monitor my GPU and CPU (all cores preferably) temperatures while gaming, and I suppose just in general really. Any recommendations?

 

HWiNFO64 and HWMonitor are both good. I prefer the former.

 

Try:

GPU: www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/


and

CPU: www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

 

CPU-Z? Where does it show CPU temperature?

 

It doesn't.

HWMonitor is pretty light and shows temps of anything that has a sensor.

 

lots of monitoring tools in my sig below so you can try them all and see which is best for you.

 

Another recommendation for HWMonitor as well. Used it for a long time on my desktop.

 

I'd recommend HWiNFO64 because it is more comprehensive (displays a lot more diagnostic information and sensor readings) and has RTSS OSD support so you can monitor anything you want, such as CPU temps, in games with the MSI Afterbruner overlay. Very useful indeed.

 

+1 for this. It's the ultimate setup.

 

I like HWinfo64 as well. To me I like HWMonitor because it's a simple interface with basically temperatures only. HWInfo64 is much more comprehensive but I think can be a bit overwhelming for someone just wanting a quick glance at component temperatures.

 

Yep, it gives me everything I might need to see in games at the touch of a button:

 

Hey guys what is a good program that shows all the information about my computer (display manufacturer, ram brand and such)

 

HWinfo64 from my signature below.

 

Yup, when I want to go in details, I use HWiNFO, when I want a quick glance, I use HWMonitor.

 

awesome, thanks a lot!

 

Throttle stop if you dun need to read all the extra sensors, guess what it stop throttle at the same time.

 

None of them can be made to display temps while gaming can they? I'd also like to see my FPS if that's possible. Perhaps something I can trigger on/off easily while gaming. Is there such a light program?

 

Uhhh hello...look at the post at the top of this page.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...rogram-shows-gpu-cpu-temps-2.html#post9317847

 

So how do I enable it "at the touch of a button" while gaming? (Using HWINFO64 that is)

I found where to find the temps, but I am not sure as to how to set it up as you have in that photo while gaming.

 

Who can tell me the CPU monitoring Gadget, that would notify me somehow about high CPU temps like 95C?
Or any CPU temp gadget at all) Your recomendations.

 

You need to install MSI Afterburner and RTSS (RivaTuner Statistics Server). Then you enable the on-screen display from Afterburner and bind a hotkey to toggle it, but this will only show the GPU information. In order to see the CPU information as well you need to add HWiNFO64.exe as an application profile to RTSS. Then, go into HWiNFO64 and add the desired sensors readings to RTSS. Here's a guide: How to: CPU and GPU usage along with FPS in-game

 

You can use ThrottleStop and set a DTS alarm so that when the CPU reaches, for example, 85C it will switch to a profile where Turbo Boost is disabled in order to reduce temps. Once it drops below 85C again it will switch back to the normal Turbo Boost-enabled performance profile.

 

I set DTS to 95 (as I believe it means to turn on when it reaches 95 degrees) but it keeps resetting itself to 70 when I click OK.

 

It works fine for me. unclewebb would be the one to go to for bugs like this.

 

Do you set value for temperature right above dts profile to use?

 

That's not how it works. Per the ThrottleStop guide:

Alarm

This feature allows you to select an alarm and automatically change profiles based on your CPU or GPU temperature. DTS refers to a direct reading from your CPU temperature sensor which counts down to zero as the CPU heats up. A DTS alarm of 10 means that when the CPU temperature is within 10 degrees of the thermal throttling point, ThrottleStop will change to your selected performance profile. The GPU alarm is in degrees C so if you set a GPU alarm of 90, ThrottleStop will change profiles when it reaches that temperature.

 

not a good idea to set it as 95c warning. 90c maybe. above 90c it will start throttling down to protect the hardware.

fraps in sig below will show on screen frames per second during gaming.

 

I use msi afterburner for that, it shows you fps, gpu usage, gpu temps, memory usage, core clock, etc while you are gaming

 

My laptop works without fan right now, only cooling pad and no bottom cover. Unfortunately it never throttles below 100C. And unsfortunately I oftenly forgot to increase fan speed of cooling pad when Ii need to.

 

Haswell CPUs are not supposed to throttle until 100C and Ivy Bridge CPUs are not supposed to throttle until 105C. It sounds like you are lucky to have a laptop that is working properly. Some laptop manufacturers do crazy stuff to throttle CPUs long before they should. The Intel thermal throttling works excellent so why not use it. Intel rates their CPUs to run 100% reliably right up to the built in thermal throttling temperature. Hardware throttling works better than any software controlled or bios controlled throttling.

 

I use gpu-z and cpu id