Usage & Temperature Monitor for Dual Xeon (Ivy Bridge-EP) Workstation.

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Guys,

I'm looking for a software that can run Windows 8 and display current CPU Usage & Temperatures. Not something that I have to open & look at - but something that can be placed on the Desktop.

The Workstation has Dual 8 Core Xeon's; effectively 16 cores. I don't necessarily need to see Usage & Temperature of every core (Although it would be nice); but I would like to at least be able to see Usage & Temperature of each CPU.

RAM Usage would be nice too.

Back in the day, I used to use a software called Samurize; highly customizable and would read info straight from WMI (Or WHI? Forgot!). Unfortunately that software was last updated in 2011.

Most applications I have looked at either don't display usage & temperature for dual Xeon's; or cannot be placed on the Desktop.

Just wondering if something else out there I missed.

Thanks!!
 
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Sounds to me like you want Rainmeter
 
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If I can figure the damn thing out! LOL.

I've played with it in the past - and unless you're willing to use available skins and use exactly what they have; just the way they have it; it's one hard thing to customize & configure.

Also, I'm not 100% sure if it can handle 2 CPU's. Every skin & example I've seen only shows one.

Still ... I'll give it another shot.
Open to other suggestions as well.

Thanks.
 
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The problem I'm having with Rainmeter is the same base problem I'm having with anything else. None of the Applications/Plugins that I'm installing are even acknowledging the 2nd processor -- as if it's not even there.

I've tried:

- CoreTemp
- SpeedFan
- RealTemp
- HWMonitor

None of these show me the temperature or load for the 2nd processor. They all seem to show me only the single 8 Core / 16 Thread Xeon; not the second one. Rainmeter relies on plugins like above to display temperature & other info; since the native application itself isn't showing information for both processors - Rainmeter is helpless.

At this point I'm looking for a software that will show me usage & temperature of both physical Xeon processors.
 
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I think that Rainmeter shows an average of all installed CPUs
 
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That is correct! Although, in doing so - you really have no way of knowing if it's actually reading & averaging both CPU's or not.

I'd like to be able to see load & temperature for both physical CPU's separately. Not necessarily every individual core or thread of the 16 cores & 32 threads, though that would be nice, but at the very least - the CPU's individually.
 
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