Everyone has and needs a good monitor for their OCing adventures. Mine is currently CPUID. I gets the job done but I have never been particularly impressed with it. So I went searching for a replacement to CPUID Hardware Monitor the other day. I just felt like it could use a few more features and a lot more customizable features. So first I went to their website to see if I could get the source code for it and modify it myself but that was to no avail because as I found out CPUID is not an open source app. Well I generally don't like this as I am a very big open source fan.
So I started looking for alternatives. I found one and I am wondering what you all think. It is called Open Hardware Monitor and is surprisingly similar to CPUID. I haven't looked into it but I would be shocked if one didn't come from the other.
Pros:
Extra sensors:
-Voltages includes DRAM Voltage
-Shows all four of my mobo fans instead of just three
-Shows bus speed and clocks of individual CPU cores
-Shows Total and individual loads of CPU cores
-Shows GPU core and memory speed
-Shows GPU load
-Shows GPU voltage and fan speed
-Manual control of GPU fan speed!
Temps can be viewed as graph
All numbers displayed with at least one decimal for accuracy
Can be minimized to customizable, desktop gadget
ALL Sensors can be renamed, hidden, or shown on the gadget or in the tray
Cons:
Lacking sensors:
-No 12V rail
-No PWM fan sensor
-No individual core temps
-No Processor wattage
I cannot say that I have had this tool long but so far so good. I am really liking the customizable parts and am a big fan of the desktop gadget part of it. While I won't be uninstalling CPUID I will be replacing it.
Let me know what everyone thinks of it. Here is the link
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
So I started looking for alternatives. I found one and I am wondering what you all think. It is called Open Hardware Monitor and is surprisingly similar to CPUID. I haven't looked into it but I would be shocked if one didn't come from the other.
Pros:
Extra sensors:
-Voltages includes DRAM Voltage
-Shows all four of my mobo fans instead of just three
-Shows bus speed and clocks of individual CPU cores
-Shows Total and individual loads of CPU cores
-Shows GPU core and memory speed
-Shows GPU load
-Shows GPU voltage and fan speed
-Manual control of GPU fan speed!
Temps can be viewed as graph
All numbers displayed with at least one decimal for accuracy
Can be minimized to customizable, desktop gadget
ALL Sensors can be renamed, hidden, or shown on the gadget or in the tray
Cons:
Lacking sensors:
-No 12V rail
-No PWM fan sensor
-No individual core temps
-No Processor wattage
I cannot say that I have had this tool long but so far so good. I am really liking the customizable parts and am a big fan of the desktop gadget part of it. While I won't be uninstalling CPUID I will be replacing it.
Let me know what everyone thinks of it. Here is the link
http://openhardwaremonitor.org/