system tray based CoreTemp alternative?

I have enjoyed using CoreTemp, and the desktop/sidebar gadget for some time now. However, in an effort to clean up my desktop, I removed the gadgets and would like to move this information to the system tray.. it seems to be even (more) lighter on resources, and updates quicker than the sidebar gadget does.

CoreTemp has built in options for the various info it can display in the system tray, but it's not as customizeable or detailed as the gadget add on.

Specifically, I would like something equally light weight that will display the following:

CPU Frequency
Load per core
Temp per core
Ram use

Core temp displays CPU Freq, and Temp per core. Unfortunately it only shows average load (literally cpu load [1+2]/2) and not load per core and does not have any options for showing ram use. The sidebar gadget does, but system tray options don't allow this.

Is there an alternative, that's just as light? I don't need to see hdd info, network info, cpu voltage, detailed ram stats, etc.

 

You could have a look at the Anvir Tak Manager. This is certainly not a "light" program, since it has the full functionality of the Windows Task Manager (plus some other additional features), but it offers a lot of customizing options for system tray icons. Here some examples: System Tray Icons and Menu | Tray, Icons, Tooltip, System, Icon

 

Open Hardware Monitor, just right click which parameter you want and 'Show in Tray'.
But no RAM usage though.

 

MAA83 The latest version of hwinfo64 can be configured to show any of the settings in systray. Hope this helps
http://www.hwinfo.com/
Also has a fully configurable gadget in the default install folder. It is very light on resources.

 

@klaus - definitely heavier than what I was looking for, but also a cool utility to keep on hand, thanks!

@lee - I like Hardware Monitor as well, but as you said no ram usage which is the same issue with CoreTemp. And now that I've restarted a few times, I realize CoreTemp is not particularly reliable when it comes to loading the system tray with all the icons, in the right order, on each boot.

@JOSEA - Looks like it could be a keeper, thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out!

 

Awesome. It seemed to me as though Core Temp had some serious bugs and actually increased temps a great deal.

 

So I worked out the systray bugs in coretemp. Everything seems to load and work fine if you set it to NOT start up with windows and then just manually add a shortcut to the user start up folder. The icons load on time, in the right order, and don't disappear. It still can't report ram usage, but I decided I can live with out that.

I haven't had issues with coretemp increasing system temps though. It will load the processor more if you decrease the polling interval. But on my system it reports temps accurately, with the widget or in the systray.

Also on a side note, for those with weather widgets wanting to clear the desktop and move more info to the systray, it took me forever to find an add free highly configurable weather program that was low on resources, but I've gotta give it to WeatherMate.

WeatherMate

This thing is awesome. That's all, thanks people.