Computer hardware monitoring (CPU, GPU, Motherboard, Harddrive temperature) and more

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How to check your hardware temperatures, voltages, and battery wear with free software. And what do the readings mean?

Using CPUID HWmonitor:
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html


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Computer hardware monitoring, to check on your CPU, GPU, Motherboard, and harddrive temperature, voltages, and battery wear.

The main purpose for running such a program is to check on and prevent overheating of your hardware, especially when running CPU/GPU intensive programs.

If temperatures are too high you may have to clean your computer.

I'll be using the CPUID HWMonitor to do this. Follow the link in the description for the free download.

Follow the download link, download, and run the file.

Choose installation location.

...and install.

Start the program.

The program shows your hardware components and their stats.

The first component, in my case Dell Inc. 0YR8NN, is the motherboard.

TZ00 and TZ01 are the two 'Thermal Zones' on the motherboard where temperature is measured.

This motherboard has a integrated GPU, so the GPU temperature is not shown seperately.

The CPU, in this case Intel Core i7 2630, a quad-core processor, is shown with different temperatures for each core, as there is a sensor inside each of the cores.

Powers shows power use for different components of the CPU.

The Hard Drive, ST950042 0AS, with two different temperature measurements.

The battery with current voltage, designed capacity, full capacity and current capacity.

The Wear level shown is 100% - (full charge capacity / designed capacity).

Which means my laptop lost 18% of the designed battery capacity so far :(.

For demonstration purposes i'm running my virus scan to show the program registers the temperature rise when running a CPU intensive program.

Temperature is up by about 10 degrees!