1) you can use Everest Ultimate to monitor CPU temps, CPU usage, GPU temps, GPU usage, Fan speeds, HDD temps .... etc. It works on all hardware (ATI/Nvidia, AMD/Intel...)
2) or you can use GPU-Z to monitor everything about your Graphic card only.
3) there are a lot of other software available that will do the job.
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^ I dled everst, but it has some issues:
1. It's only trial version and doesn't give me 50% of the info in the main screen
2. You need to open the entire program to see the specs - whereas I'm looking for a tool
that can monitor your system settings on a sidebar. (ie. Rivatuner temperature display at the bottom
toolbar, or Nvidia-sys-monitor's green info bar that can be displayed on the side)
Any other suggestions? I already have GPU-Z & CPU-Z, but neither has the sidebar option.
ATITool can do that as far as I know for the GPU side and Systool will do it for the CPU side although both have issues with some setups due to their age.
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