HWMonitor
A system that reads PC health sensors and handles sensor chips
The HWMonitor program is designed to monitor the performance of PC components. This list includes temperature, fan speed and voltages. HWMonitor supports monitoring of processor sensors, many different monitoring chips, abit uGuru 2003 and uGuru 2005, Gigabyte ODIN, S.M.A.R.T. power supply sensors, as well as graphics cards based on ATI and nVIDIA GPUs. The utility is designed not for practical use, but to demonstrate capabilities. You can download and use HWMonitor absolutely free of charge.
One main benefit of using HWMonitor is its ability to comprehensively monitor the health and performance of PC components in real-time.
Processor temperature sensors:
- Intel® Core™, Core™ 2, Core™ i7 Digital Thermal Sensor;
- AMD® Athlon™ 64 and Phenom™ Thermal Sensor.
Motherboard sensors:
- Winbond® W83781D, W83793, W83627HF, W83697HF, W83791D, W83627THF, W83627EHF, W83627DHG;
- ITE® IT8705, IT8712, IT8716, IT8718, IT8720;
- Asus® AS99127, ASB100;
- SMSC® LPC47M192, EMC6D102, EMC6D103, DME1737, EMC6W201;
- Analog Device® ADM1021, ADM1030, AMD1031, ADT7461, ADT7475, ADT7490;
- Fintek® F71805, F71862, F71872, F71882;
- National Semiconductor® LM63;
- Andigilog® ASC7621.
Improved equipment monitors:
- abit® uGuru 2003 and uGuru 2005;
- Gigabyte® ODIN™ power supplies monitoring;
- VIA® 686A/B integrated monitoring;
- Asus® EPU (Energy Processing Unit);
- NVIDIA® ESA (Enthusiast System Architecture);
- Intel® Management Engine (HECI).
Laptops & Netbooks
- Apple® MacBook™ and MacBook Pro™;
- IBM® Thinkpad™ series;
- Asus® eeePC™ 701, 901 and 1000H.
Hard disk monitoring
- SMART temperature.
Graphic card monitoring
- NVIDIA® and ATI® GPUs temperature.
Memory module monitoring
- FB-DIMM integrated thermal sensor (Intel® 5000X/P/Z and 5400A/B MCH chipsets)
ACPI
- ACPI Thermal Zone.
PROS
Simple interface makes it easy to understand and navigate.
Lightweight software, avoiding computer slowdown.
CONS
Cannot control fan speeds.
Limited functionality in free version.
