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    help - Monitoring your laptop

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by LiLFiL, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. LiLFiL

    LiLFiL Notebook Enthusiast

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    i wanted to know which is the best or at least a really good program to monitor a laptops cpu, hdd temps, ram usage etc. thanks
     
    LiLFiL, Aug 13, 2009
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    CPUID HWMonitor is a good free program for monitoring CPU, GPU, and HDD temps.
     
    Loggie, Aug 14, 2009
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    Anybody knows if there exist a program to monitor the actual load on the GPU, and not just the temps?
     
    Cookie, Aug 14, 2009
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    GPU-Z will show you the clocks that your GPU is running at (2D ones, 3D ones, Throttle, etc.....)
     
    TevashSzat, Aug 14, 2009
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    No.

    That's not what he was asking.
     
    Soviet Sunrise, Aug 14, 2009
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    This depends on your video card and this sort of things sometimes comes with your drivers (like Rivatuner has a built in GPU load indicator, but only for some cards).
     
    Tarentum, Aug 14, 2009
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    Hm, I have a 8800M GTX...

    RivaTuner can monitor usage of VideoMemory and the temperature of the card, but I can't find any load monitor plugin...
     
    Cookie, Sep 13, 2009
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    I think I have seen Vista sidebar gadgets that does that.
     
    ReDuNZL, Sep 13, 2009
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