HWiNFO - an introduction of THE Monitoring Tool

This video will guide you through the essential windows and functions of HWiNFO.
HWiNFO, as the name teases, is informing you about your hardware, meaning you can monitor every sensor your computer has to offer Be it CPU, GPU, RAM, storage devices - HWiNFO has you covered.

It is also exceptionally customizable in almost every regard, which we will show you a little bit. The majority of the video we will however tell you where to press buttons and what to make of the information being shown following that.

To sum it up: the possibilities are endless and you will discover so much more after watching this video. Happy tweaking!

Download link
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https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

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Welcome to an introduction to HWinfo.
We already touched on various helpful
tools for benchmarking and monitoring.
See the info cards for that. This time
we want to go a bit deeper into HWinfo.
You can download it for free on the
official homepage, which is also linked
in the video description.
After starting it, you will be greeted
with the option to run sensors only or
summary only or simply run both by not
ticking any box.
For the purpose of this video, I chose
to see all information. At first, it
might be a bit overwhelming, but we will
go through the most important aspects of
every window. Please note that there is
so much more to discover on HWinfo and
to keep the video relevant, we will
focus on the most common and helpful
aspects.
The very first one that greets you when
you simply click run will be the system
summary for CPU, GPU, as well as
mainboard, drives, and memory.
On the left-hand side, you will see the
CPU and on the right-hand side the GPU
information. In case you have more than
one of those, you can select the other
via down menu.
My i7-4790K is shown with its TDP, base
and boost clock, and also the voltage.
Right below is the motherboard and its
BIOS date and version. The attached
drives are also shown.
The ASUS ROG Strix GTX 1080 is shown
with the current clocks and that's about
it. Right below is the memory section,
but you can select each bank and see
size, clock, and so forth.
A bit more comprehensive is the
following window. Each component and all
of the information it can find about it,
as you can see here, for instance, the
CPU.
You can also save a report in all kinds
of different formats, for example, to
send a friend for getting help in
troubleshooting.
However, for monitoring purposes, you
want to click on sensors. Sensors
include every sensor you can think of in
your PC.
You can pick whatever sensor you like.
You will see the current, the minimum,
the maximum, and the average read of
that sensor. For instance, take the CPU
temperature indicated by a little
thermometer.
Depending on your CPU, you will have
different number, of course. Please note
that AMD CPUs do not show separate core
temperatures.
It is very helpful to run this while
gaming or to see the temperature before,
during, and after overclocking and
stressing your CPU. If you want to have
a chart, simply click right on the
sensor of your choice and select show
graph.
You can also adjust the looks of the
graph to your liking. If you want to
reset the minimum, maximum, and average
numbers shown, you can simply click on
the clock at the bottom.
You can also log all of the data by
clicking on the little sheet with the
plus sign. It will create a CSV file to
open in Excel, R, and the likes.
In case you want to change the order of
the sensors being displayed, you can
obviously drag and drop them to your
liking. You can, of course, restore the
original order in the layout tab in the
program settings.
Additionally, you can choose to expand
the window, meaning you can put more
information next to each other to maybe
put on a separate monitor. You can also
adjust the different sensors being shown
in the layout tab of the settings.
Simply select a sensor and disable
monitoring. If you have one, two, or
maybe three very important sensors that
you want to monitor at all times, you
can put it into the system tray using
the system tray tab in the program
settings. You can obviously adjust the
color and transparency for better
reading.
You can also, via the OSD tab, enable
and set up an on-screen display.
However, we found it much more
convenient to use the MSI Afterburner
for that task. See the linked video in
the info cards for that.
So, this is how you use HWinfo in a
nutshell. Like this video if you liked
it. Comment more suggestions down below,
and subscribe to help the channel. We
will see you in the next one.